Join us tonight at BarrTV
November 5, 2008
We getting set up here at the Mansour Center. News crews are here. Several of us are hanging out and watching early returns from Indiana and Kentucky.
You can find out when polls close in different states here.
Don’t forget to tune into BarrTV to watch the party.
This is your election open thread, thank you so much for your support.
Barr Says “This is Just the Beginning”
November 5, 2008
“This is just the beginning of the new Libertarian Party,” says Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party nominee for president. “In these next four years, there will be an even greater need for a political party fully dedicated to lower taxes, smaller government and more individual freedom—a voice for liberty.”
“This year, we set a solid foundation for freedom, on which we will build a strong and united political organization that advances freedom and liberty in the United States,” says Barr. “I, and all Americans who support true liberty, owe a great debt of gratitude to our staff, donors, volunteers and voters who helped support this campaign.”
Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. Congressman Barr was the 2008 Libertarian Party Nominee for President.
The Libertarian Party is America’s third largest political party, founded in 1971 as an alternative to the two main political parties. You can find more information on the Libertarian Party by visiting www.LP.org. The Libertarian Party proudly stands for smaller government, lower taxes and more freedom.
Barr Says “This is Just the Beginning”
Election Night Open Thread
November 5, 2008
We getting set up here at the Mansour Center. News crews are here. Several of us are hanging out and watching early returns from Indiana and Kentucky.
You can find out when polls close in different states here.
Don’t forget to tune into BarrTV to watch the party.
This is your election open thread, thank you so much for your support.
Talk show host endorses Barr
November 5, 2008
Matt Murphy, one of the most well known talk show hosts in the Southeast, just endorsed Bob Barr.
Reminder: Election Night Party
November 5, 2008
Don’t forget about our election night party. Details are available here.
If you can’t make it to Marietta, don’t worry. We’re working on a live feed that will show up over at BarrTV.
Reminder: Election Night Party
The Final Hours
November 5, 2008
Dave Weigel has a post over at Reason about the final hours of the Barr campaign:
The call sheet is short and perfunctory, and everyone who uses it puts a slightly different spin on it. “I’m calling to ask you for your vote for former congressman and presidential candidate Bob Barr,” goes one version. “Bob Barr opposed the McCain-Obama bailout and McCain-Feingold. According to the National Taxpayers Union, only Bob Barr will cut taxes and reduce federal spending.”
Sometimes the call includes verbiage about the Second Amendment. Often, the person on the other end has something better to do.
“He already voted six weeks ago!” says Austin Petersen, a Libertarian Party worker who’s been camped out in Atlanta for the Barr campaign. “Where do they hide all these votes before the election, anyway? Are they in a box somewhere? Where’s the box?”
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The office is as wide and rambling as the real estate developments that define metropolitan Georgia. A dozen people are at work, but there are almost twice as many full-stocked cubicles than staff. Typically they service the volunteers who come in on weekends to find more voters, but on the day before the election there is the hardcore staff and no one else. A flat screen TV is tuned to cable political coverage. A computer is tuned to Barr TV, which runs videos of the candidate all day long. Two Mr. Coffees churn in a small break room aside a heaving pile of lawn signs, pieces of mail, fliers, and gel bands that twist cyclist Lance Armstrong’s “Livestrong” message into “Live Free.”“This is a real campaign,” says Stewart Flood, a South Carolina Libertarian Party executive who has taken a three-week unpaid vacation to help out. “There was no headquarters in 2004. It was Michael Badnarik in a car, driving from event to event. They did raise money, but they weren’t raising money. They did contact voters, but it wasn’t organized.”
In one of the most crowded cubicles, Barr communications director Shane Cory has a map of the country divided into seven sections. The states where Barr failed to make the ballot are blacked out. (”Louisiana screwed us,” Cory recalls grimly. “We should have gotten on in Connecticut, and we would have, if the lawsuit was filed earlier.”) Seven more states have been assigned numbers that indicate where the campaign is placing resources, which mostly consist of the candidate himself doing media and making speeches. Nevada, Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida—all swing states—are marked out.
Head over to Reason and read the rest of the article.
Video: Bob on CNN’s Newsroom
November 5, 2008
Here is video of Bob’s appearance this morning on CNN’s Newsroom:
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