third party candidates
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Letter: Debate commission should suspend arbitrary rules, include everyone
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Editor: Why do American voters have to choose between the two most unpopular presidential candidates in the last ten presidential election cycles? Because the Commission on Presidential Debates says so. The Commission on Presidential Debates sounds like an important public entity, but is, in fact, a private corporation hired by the Democratic and Republican parties.…
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Johnson races around U.S. to qualify for presidential debates
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Most presidential hopefuls spend their Septembers in places like Ohio and Florida, hoping to win over a handful of swing voters in battleground states. But Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is crisscrossing the country in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to boost his national poll numbers and qualify for the presidential debates. Johnson needs to reach…
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Johnson asks ‘What is Aleppo’; says he ‘blanked’ when asked
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If it was greater attention Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson wanted, he got it – but probably not the kind he wanted. As part of a media blitz in New York to try to raise his polling numbers enough to qualify for the upcoming presidential debate, Johnson fielded a range of questions Thursday with the…
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Libertarian candidate Williams qualifies for Club 20’s U.S. Senate debate
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Colorado Libertarian candidate Lily Tang Williams will share the stage at the first U.S. Senate debate on Saturday in Grand Junction between Michael Bennet, the incumbent Democrat, and El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, his Republican challenger. It’ll be the first time in memory that a third-party or independent candidate has appeared at a debate sponsored…
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Green Party appealing to growing number of Colorado voters
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A social justice advocate and self-proclaimed radical, Arn Menconi said he spent 20 years working within the political system, trying to affect change through the Democratic Party, serving locally as an Eagle County Commissioner for eight years and campaigning for numerous party candidates, among them Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. But after watching Democrats like Bennet…
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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson seeks home-state support
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Back in his home state Saturday, Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson deemed his third party the one that truly represents most Americans. “I do think we represent the majority of Americans in this country – the majority of Americans in this country that are fiscally conservative, that are socially inclusive,”…
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Nicolais: Court kicks third parties to the curb
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Trump or Clinton. Clinton or Trump. Our country’s two-party dichotomy dominates the presidential race and leaves little alternative for many Americans who view this year’s election as a choice between evils. With two dramatically flawed candidates securing the nominations of the Republican and Democratic parties, a morose pall cloaks the election. The very structure of…
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Poll: Clinton leading Trump by 10 points in Colorado
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Hillary Clinton holds a 10-point lead over Donald Trump among likely Colorado voters, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released Wednesday. When the two major-party nominees are tested against a pair of prominent third-party party candidates, Clinton’s lead in Colorado slips to 8 points. It’s the sixth consecutive poll that shows Clinton comfortably…
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Bill Clinton in Vegas: Hillary’s email server ‘a mistake’
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Bill Clinton said it was a mistake for Hillary Clinton to maintain a personal email server even though her predecessors and her successor at the State Department did it, adding that she should’ve known a different set of rules would apply to her if she ever ran for president. Bill Clinton’s acknowledgement came during a question and answer period on Friday…
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Libertarians’ ballot access uncertain in battleground Ohio
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While Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is set to appear on ballots in at least 39 states, swing state Ohio is among the places where his supporters are still working to get his name out to voters this fall. The ballot status of the former New Mexico governor in Ohio was uncertain Wednesday – a…
