http://www.ballot-access.org/…

This year, 23 presidential candidates are on the ballot in at least one state. That is the highest in U.S. history except for 1992, when there were also 23. Generally there are more such candidates in periods of great public unhappiness.

Here is a list, with the predominant party label for each, and the percentage of the voters that will see their names on the ballot:

Barack Obama, Democratic, 100.0%
John McCain, Republican, 100.0%
Bob Barr, Libertarian, 94.5%
Ralph Nader, independent, 85.2%
Cynthia McKinney, Green, 70.5%
Chuck Baldwin, Constitution, 59.8%
Gloria La Riva, Socialism and Liberation, 26.8%
Roger Calero or his stand-in James Harris, Socialist Workers, 25.0%
Brian Moore, Socialist, 21.5%
Alan Keyes, America’s Independent Party, 18.1%
Charles Jay, Boston Tea, 10.0%
Gene Amondson, Prohibition, 9.6%
Thomas Robert Stevens, Objectivist, 8.0%
Richard Duncan, independent, 4.6%
John Joseph Polachek, New, 4.3%
Jeffrey Boss, Vote Here, 3.0%
Jeffrey Wamboldt, We the People, 2.5%
Ron Paul, Taxpayers/Constitution, 2.0%
Jonathan E. Allen, HeartQuake ‘08, 1.7%
Bradford Lyttle, U.S. Pacifist, 1.7%
Frank McEnulty, unaffiliated, 1.7%
Ted Weill, Reform, .9%
George Phillies, Libertarian, .6%

Poor George Phillies at the bottom. I would vote for him or Paul if available in New Jersey. Sadly they are not.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Campaign signs in support of presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama decorate lawns across the country, but a man who said he doesn’t support either candidate has created quite a stir with a sign of his own.

“They Both Suck ‘08″ reads the sign in Timothy Connors’ front yard.

Connors, who lives in San Marco, told Channel 4 he supports politics but said he doesn’t support either of the frontrunners in this year’s election.

“I get a lot of response — notes on the door or people honk if I’m outside or what not,” Connor said.

He said he made the sign because he has an interest in politics. He said he just doesn’t have an interest in this year’s candidates.

“I feel a lot of people get caught up in the lesser of two evils. I think it would waste a vote if I don’t 100 percent support a candidate,” said Connor.

Connor said he isn’t going to support either candidate. Instead, he said if he can’t cast a ballot for who he wants, he’ll wait until 2012 and not vote in this election.

“My theory is if I can’t vote for who I want, it really doesn’t count,” Connor said.

He said the person he would like to see on the ballot is Ron Paul.

A national campaign to put up signs similiar to this would have been great. Oh well.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/…

For all of the talk of Krugman receiving his recent Nobel Prize for his theories on trade, nonetheless it seems to me that the committee was awarding the prize posthumously to John Maynard Keynes. Krugman, after all, is not a “neo-Keynesian;” no, he is a true-blue, out-and-out old time religion Keynesian.

His latest column, “Let’s Get Fiscal,” is right out of Keynes’ General Theory. While not using the term “liquidity trap,” nonetheless Krugman describes such a situation, and then offers “fiscal policy” as a way out:

…there’s a lot the federal government can do for the economy. It can provide extended benefits to the unemployed, which will both help distressed families cope and put money in the hands of people likely to spend it. It can provide emergency aid to state and local governments, so that they aren’t forced into steep spending cuts that both degrade public services and destroy jobs. It can buy up mortgages (but not at face value, as John McCain has proposed) and restructure the terms to help families stay in their homes.And this is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. The usual argument against public works as economic stimulus is that they take too long: by the time you get around to repairing that bridge and upgrading that rail line, the slump is over and the stimulus isn’t needed. Well, that argument has no force now, since the chances that this slump will be over anytime soon are virtually nil. So let’s get those projects rolling.

He then ends with the following howler:

If Barack Obama becomes president, he won’t have the same knee-jerk opposition to spending. But he will face a chorus of inside-the-Beltway types telling him that he has to be responsible, that the big deficits the government will run next year if it does the right thing are unacceptable.He should ignore that chorus. The responsible thing, right now, is to give the economy the help it needs. Now is not the time to worry about the deficit.

Oh, yes. The Beltway crowd calls for “fiscal restraint.” Right. Krugman must have bought some pretty powerful weed with that $1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel.

I know it wasn’t for his recent writings and I suppose it’s not as bad as the whole Al Gore thing… but… really…

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