Quick! What Is The Status Of The Libertarian Party For The 2004 Election?

[Chicago_Faucet]

Okay, so my employer’s firewall restricts access to the Libertarian Party website, and I cannot wait until late tonight when I can check this on my personal computer.

Sitting here, I just realized that my attention has been distracted by all of the recent political happenings in the Democratic and Republican parties. I have not been paying attention to the Libertarian Party’s preparations for the 2004 election.

Who are the LP’s front runners?

Who looks promising?

[friedo]

The 2004 Libertarian National Convention will be from May 27-31 in Atlanta.

According to them,

The Libertarian Party ran more than 1430 candidates in the 2000 elections, more than twice as many as all other third parties combined. We fielded candidates for 255 of the 435 seats in the U.S House as well as 25 of the 33 Senate seats up for election – the first time in eighty years that any third party has contested a majority of the seats in Congress. Our slate of U.S. House candidates received 1.7 million votes, the first time any third party has received over a million votes for U.S. House.

I think it’s still too early to get an accurate count for the 2004 cycle, but from what I hear the numbers should be similar too, if not slightly better than the past couple elections.