The Libertarian ticket is campaigning against lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the World Health Organization, in addition to the usual taxation, prohibition, and war.
LDS disaffection could help swing Arizona blue.
Ricky Dale Harrington is polling at 38 percent in a two-way race against one of the leading voices of the GOP's ascendant authoritarian nationalism.
Two November ballot initiatives would introduce ranked-choice voting in two more states.
"If it were me, I would certainly put my nominee forth," Jorgensen says. Partisan bickering over the confirmation process is just "politics as usual."
Lindsey Graham just dodged a third-party bullet, but there are a handful of other tossup Senate races where third-party candidates could exceed the major candidates' margin.
While establishmentarians continue to push two-party conformity, there remains little evidence that other parties are having any sort of "spoiler" effect.
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
The Libertarian presidential nominee is polling at 5 percent. Who are her followers?
Voting for Libertarian, Green, or independent candidates will not mean “throwing your vote away.”
If Biden retains his 2–1 advantage among 2016 Libertarian and Green voters, Trump is probably toast.
A political party can be destroyed by warring factions after it nominates a celebrity candidate and loses its coherence. That’s what happened…after 1848, when the Whigs backed Zachary Taylor.
Hostility to political opponents sustains what's left of the legacy parties.
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At least 100 million Americans live in states where the presidential winner is a foregone conclusion. Maybe don't reward your party for nominating candidates you don't like?
Is the Kanye 2020 platform designed to steal votes from Joe Biden?
But she warns against "opportunistic people hijacking the movement.”
Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr., is running to keep Tom Cotton out of the White House.
The Protect My Ballot campaign is out to stop ranked-choice voting.
"Garrett Foster understood that libertarianism was about speaking on behalf of those who are the most acutely affected by the abuses perpetrated by an overly aggressive and unaccountable government."
The hip-hop star's wild, disjointed presentation offers both red meat and poison for right, left, and libertarian.
The "haters demographic" broke strongly in Trump's favor in 2016, but this time the group is younger, more liberal, and more likely to vote for Biden.
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Jo Jorgensen is running for the White House.
Cohen, who had been linked with parodist Vermin Supreme, identifies as an anarchist.
The Clemson psychology lecturer and 1996 Libertarian vice presidential candidate got 51 percent on the fourth ballot.
Larry Sharpe, Spike Cohen, and Ken Armstrong strategize about how to sell liberty during a pandemic.
Libertarians will decide this weekend if a message that "nothing matters more...than living in a free society" will resonate in 2020.
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She sees government COVID-19 restrictions as "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime."
Plus: Justin Amash's quick reversal, Ronan Farrow's flaws, and more...
"The political duopoly electioneering of the presidential system has indeed risen to the level of a joke."
A week before the Libertarian Party begins voting, its most high-profile candidate steps aside.
His mixed immigration record might be good for a Republican, but it's not exactly impressive for a Libertarian.
Competitors, skeptical delegates, and podcasters attack the congressman for being an incrementalist Deep State enabler rather than a principled radical.
Followed by an in-person convention for other business in Orlando in July
"I think you'll find that I'm the normal guy, the regular guy," Amash told HBO's Real Time host. "These other two guys are the buffoons."
The candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination talks with the Fifth Column podcast about coronavirus, constitutionalism, open-carry protests in Michigan, and how his own House Freedom Caucus was corrupted.
In an interview, the freshly-minted presidential candidate talks abortion, the "spoiler" charge, and Joe Biden's flip-flopping, while insisting that 2020 is a "winnable race."
Some welcome, one wonders what took him so long, and one thinks the Libertarians should "stop nominating [former Republican] pricks!"
The previously independent five-term Michigan congressman joins the L.P. and takes aim at the septuagenarian competition.
Lessons learned from the zookeeper Netflix made famous
Here are 4 questions the independent congressman and the rest of the country will have to consider
Coronavirus didn't help, but Chafee was already disappointed his anti-war message wasn't more resonant with the Libertarian establishment.
In between Trump's restrictionism and Democrats' Medicare-for-all-undocumented enthusiasm lies a party basically unified behind mass immigration without welfare.
Chafee may be the first in an eventual wave of former Republicans seeking the Libertarian presidential nod.
Because the world needs another ballot access Christmas carol.