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A Rasmussen Reports poll in Missouri (link is to US Census demographic data) shows the race in the Show Me state a dead heat with a narrow three point lead for Senator Obama over Senator McCain, 50% to 47% with minor support for both Bob Barr and Ralph Nader. Significantly, it represents the [...]—

Remember that time on Lost when everyone became consumed and distracted by Jack vs. Locke, and then all of a sudden Sawyer had all the guns and got to be in charge for, like, a day? Well, what's to stop the same thing from happening in the presidential election? I mean, other than logic, history and common sense.

Right now, Colorado is split right down the middle between Obama and McCain. It’s a dead heat at 44% of voters each, which is why Palin was in Englewood the other day accusing Barack Obama of “pallin’ around with terrorists,” the best evidence she has of which is the fistbump Obama once gave his

On the first day of in-person early voting two weeks ago, a staffer friend of mine was marking his ballot and wondering aloud about the plethora of socialist options among the nine presidential candidates on the ballot. Socialist, Socialist Workers, and Party of Socialism and Liberation, not to mention the Peace and Freedom Party and the Green Party.

Ballot Access News reports that the Barr campaign and the Libertarian Party are currently suing Louisiana over the issue of whether they missed the state’s filing deadline. The case is currently in the US Supreme Court, Libertarian Party v Dardenne, no. 08A269. All briefs on the injunctive relief matter had been submitted by October 2.

Presidential candidate and consumer activist Ralph Nader will be meeting with members of the editorial board on Thursday, Oct. 9. What would you have us ask him? (Pictured: Five-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader, shown in his Washington campaign office.

It has been said (unsurprisingly often by supporters of one of the two main parties) that voting for a third party is wasting your vote. I beg to differ. In fact, it is often voting for one of the two main parties that is a waste of a vote. Consider this year’s presidential elections.

October 05, 2008 C-SPAN http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5751024235210489537

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Posted by Toby Heaps at Nader 2008 blog We do fairly poorly on the Gallup poll, generally registering less than 1 percent (or about 5 times less than the recent WSJ poll). This is probably because they don’t mention Ralph Nader’s name in the question–just Obama and McCain.