A Brutal New Poll for Gary Johnson's Senate Bid Has Him Down to Just 8% (UPDATE: Bad Poll)
Two new surveys this week show the Libertarian fading fast in New Mexico, though his overall polling average remains at 17%.
Two new surveys this week show the Libertarian fading fast in New Mexico, though his overall polling average remains at 17%.
The former New Mexico governor brings Reason on the campaign trail and shares insights along the way.
Plus, a Gary Johnson honorable mention.
The winner gets to decide how much Californians will pay for property and casualty insurance.
Candidates used to let political operatives do the dirty work so they could appear above it all. Not Trump.
Plus: New details on federal bullying of banks, a new fight over nutrition advice, and new migrant mania from President Trump
Instead, you can do something that will actually make the world a better place. Which is basically anything else.
Montana L.P. candidate Rick Breckenridge says he was misinterpreted by a reporter.
2016 L.P. veep runner-up set to shatter the 50,000-vote threshold needed to make Libertarians a ballot-qualified party for the first time in state history
The Libertarian Party's candidate for governor speaks out.
More signs that politics needs to be shrunk down to a smaller part of our lives.
"Fishman would bring a sorely needed independent streak to the office," the paper editorializes.
The city's straw initiative combines the nanny statism of straw bans with the greasy machine politics of Chicago.
It will provide fresh applause lines for a series of campaign rallies planned in the next week. It might be good politics, but it's bad policy.
Weird new wrinkle for the purported "spoiler" in a toss-up race
Even when Americans don't love their political allies, they hate their opponents.
A recent poll shows a cross-partisan constituency still interested in smaller, less intrusive government and peace.
Ballot initiatives in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah will give voters a chance to loosen their cannabis laws.
Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.
Measure 1 would introduce "approval voting" to the city, meaning voters wouldn't have to abandon independent and third-party choices.
The New York Prohibition Party has re-emerged to oppose Cuomo's subsidies for brewers and distillers. They're right to be upset, even if they have a misguided solution.
Republicans and Democrats hate each other. They love their own power even more.
The New Mexico Libertarian Party's candidate for U.S. Senate trails incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich (40%) and GOP novice Mick Rich (28%).
Packages may be meant to spread fear, not harm, say investigators.
Stop freaking out about the midterms.
Voters shouldn't be asked to make decisions about how much space a chicken needs in its cage.
A GOP candidate claims she's the only person in the race who opposes a life-saving opioid policy, but her Democratic opponent is against it as well.
What could possibly go wrong?
Anyone's opinions about politics ought to be the least important and generally least interesting thing about them.
Which economic system is most effective at bringing freedom to the masses?
In one of the country's highest-profile campaigns, featuring Democratic heartthrob Stacey Abrams vs. Trumpian Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Ted Metz is likely pulling enough votes away to force a runoff.
Some conservatives are calling it a political stunt cooked up by Democrats. Democrats blame Trump's rhetoric. Trump blames the media.
During a forum at a high school, a Rhode Island candidate for attorney general compared the term to an extreme racial epithet and called it "a curse to my people."
Launch of statewide ranked-choice voting will help us see who best earns the support of independents.
Meanwhile, Alex Jones yells at horseshit.
The future 1984 scribe debated pacifism with Dr. Alex Comfort in 1942.
In the name of owning the libs, Yale's David Gelertner smears Americans as venal narcissists who can't agree to disagree.
If hatred is the country's main political motivator these days, you might as well lean into it.
The vague wording of Marsy's Laws allows law enforcement to classify themselves as "victims" after shooting suspects.
To which many Libertarian Party enthusiasts might respond, So you're saying there's a chance?
Outing survivors of sexual assault, warning that Democrats "will be lynching black folk again," and other stupid campaign-ad tricks.
There is no excuse to exclude high-performing Libertarians (or Greens) from "neck-and-neck" races
Libertarian haul is still dwarfed by the Democrat's, though a Rand Paul-friendly PAC is kicking in $2 million.