Barr Files Suit to Keep Obama and McCain Off Texas Ballot
Libertarian candidate Bob Barr has filed a lawsuit to keep John McCain and Barack Obama off of the ballot in Texas.Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr has filed suit that would keep voters from seeing the names Barack Obama and John McCain on their voting machines, saying they failed to follow the Texas law to get their names placed on the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 18, 2008 01:13
Bob Barr Conference Call
I was invited to participate in Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr's first blogger conference call and decided to do so as a public service to OTB readers. I called in three minutes before the call was scheduled to start and was the first one in. Doing so required entering two different sets of pin numbers, which strikes me as ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 17, 2008 14:32
Obama Electoral Lead Widens as National Lead Shrinks
Radley Balko notes a "strange dichotomy" in the election polls: Obama's lead in the national head-to-head polls is narrowing at the same time his Electoral College numbers based on state-by-state polls is widening. Sure enough, that's the case. Here's the RealClearPolitics snapshot: Here's the current Electoral College map from electoralvote.com, which has the race at Obama 320 - McCain 204 - ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 15, 2008 08:56
Obama, the South, and the Black Vote
Thomas Schaller, the author of Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, argues that the notion that Barack Obama has a good chance of winning Southern states because he'll energize black turnout is based on fallacious reasoning. The first myth is that African-American turnout in the South is low. Black voters are actually well represented in the Southern ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 1, 2008 13:37
Appalachian Election?
Steve Tuttle takes to the pages of Newsweek to proclaim the ascendency of Appalachia as the decider of the next president. "Hick." "Hillbilly." "Redneck." "Inbred." "Cracker." "Ridge Runner." I heard and self-effacingly used them all when I left the mountains of Appalachia to attend college in the great metropolis of Williamsburg, Va., in the '80s. I was mercilessly ribbed as a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 30, 2008 09:20
Obama Has Huge Lead in Another Poll
Barack Obama has a 12-point lead in the latest Bloomberg/LAT poll, giving those of us who thought the 15-point lead in last week's Newsweek poll was an outlier some pause. In a two-man race between the major-party candidates, registered voters chose Obama over McCain by 49% to 37% in the national poll, conducted Thursday through Monday. On a four-man ballot that ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 25, 2008 07:27
Bob Barr Wins LP Presidential Nomination
Former Representative Bob Barr has won the Libertarian Party nomination for President, narrowly defeating longtime Party activist Mary Ruwart. This is a rather welcome change for the LP, who have taken to nominating more radical, but relatively unknown candidates in past election cycles. As I've said before, Barr is their best candidate since Paul in 1988, and is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 26, 2008 00:49
Libertarian Party Embraces Big Tent
Something really strange is going on with the Libertarian Party. I mean, more so than usual -- I wouldn't bother to point out the obvious. Their annual convention is going on as I write. Some highlights: Bob Barr, most famous for opposing medical marijuana and for his role in the impeachment of Bill Clinton, is running to be its presidential ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 23, 2008 13:36
Third Party Candidates and Wasting Your Vote
Doug Mataconis rejects the idea that Bob Barr and other third party candidates should defer to the major party candidate most closely aligned with them ideologically. If McCain loses, it won’t be Bob Barr’s fault anymore than Al Gore losing Florida in 2000 was Ralph Nader’s fault. It will be because he didn’t convince enough people to vote for him. Well, "fault" ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 14, 2008 09:01
Barr: McCain Bane or Obama Obstacle?
As Alex reports below, former Republican congressman Bob Barr has thrown his hat into the Libertarian Party nomination contest. Assuming Barr does secure the Libertarian nomination--a big assumption, given that the LP isn't exactly known for picking the most electable presidential candidates--how much of an impact will Barr really have in November, and if so, on whom? Certainly ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 12, 2008 15:52
