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McKinney Goes Green
Katie Paul 7/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
Controversy has always been Cynthia McKinney's trademark. This election season, she may have finally found her perfect political home. Last weekend, the 53-year-old former Georgia congresswoman clinched the Green Party's presidential nomination; 35-year-old hip-hop activist and activist Rosa Clemente will be her running mate.
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Playing the Spoiler Role?
Sarah Elkins 5/21/2008 12:00:00 AM
At Tuesday night's Libertarian debate, the party's most celebrated presidential candidate wasn't even there. In fact, he isn't even a Libertarian. And yet his name was invoked almost a dozen times in the course of the hourlong debate leading up to this weekend's Libertarian convention.
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Huckabee: The Lessons of My Campaign
Matthew Philips 5/16/2008 12:00:00 AM
For a guy who stopped running for president more than two months ago, Mike Huckabee sure has been getting a lot of attention. Ever since he bowed out of the race after the Texas primary on March 4, and then endorsed John McCain five days later on "Larry King Live," the former Arkansas governor has kept a high profile, traveling across the country giving speeches to conservative and Christian organizations and stumping for virtually every Republican running for office, including McCain. His political action committee, HuckPAC, which he launched last month, has raised money for eight Republicans in a variety of races— gubernatorial, congressional and even state-legislature races. Three weeks ago he joined McCain on his campaign bus when it rolled through Little Rock, Ark., during the presumptive GOP nominee's "poverty tour." The two yucked it up like old pals, reminding people that, unlike McCain and Mitt Romney, they really do seem to like each other.
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Belly Up to the Barr
Daniel Stone 5/13/2008 12:00:00 AM
Will John McCain have trouble rallying conservatives to his cause in November? That calculus may have gotten a little trickier with Bob Barr's entry into the race. Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, announced on Monday that he is seeking the Libertarian Party's nomination for the presidency—raising the prospect that he could become the Ralph Nader of the right.
Boston Blog
7/26/2004 12:00:00 AM
A Libertarian Surge?
George F. Will
Compact and Feisty Bob Barr, 59, probably will seek and get the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, which convenes in Denver on Memorial Day weekend. Given the recent fund-raising prowess of a kindred spirit—Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican nomination siphoned up $35 million, mostly off the Internet—libertarians are feeling their oats. Come November, Barr conceivably could be to John McCain what Ralph Nader was to Al Gore in 2000—ruinous. Nader was a weak third-party candidate but was the most consequential in American history. He won only 2,882,955 popular votes nationwide (2.7 percent), but 97,488 of them were in Florida, where, because of Nader, George W. Bush won by 537 votes.