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This article contains lists of official third party or independent candidates associated with the 2008 United States presidential election.. Third party is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two major parties, the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
In some cases it is easier for party nominees to gain ballot access than for independent candidates, so Ralph Nader's independent campaign is associated with parties (pre-existing or newly formed) in some states: PF is the Peace and Freedom Party, NLP is the Natural Law Party, IEP is the Independent-Ecology Party, and IP is the
Not only was the 2008 election the first time since 1952 that neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate in the general election, but it was also the first time since the 1928 election that neither sought his party's nomination for president; as Bush was term-limited from seeking another nomination, the ...
This page contains four lists of third-party and independent performances in United States presidential elections: National results for third-party or independent presidential candidates that won above 5% of the popular vote (1788–present)
On September 29, 2008, in an open letter to the Armenian-American Community of the United States he stated, that "it is fair to say that one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the brutal murder of as many as one and a half million Armenians under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, has also been one of the most neglected" and that "it ...
The 2008 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney began on February 24, 2008. He announced his intent to run as an independent candidate, on NBC's Meet The Press. [1] [2] It was Nader's fifth and final campaign; he ran in the four election cycles prior to 2008: 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004.
Independent candidates are included. They either received at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector, or they received at least one percent of the national popular vote in an election held after the national popular vote began to be recorded in 1824. [2] They ran after the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment ...
He became the Democratic candidate in the 2008 US Senate election in Virginia, and eventually won the seat. As a successful governor from a "red state" (barred from serving consecutive terms by state law) and popular within the party, it was highly anticipated that Warner would mount a presidential bid. In October, though Governor Warner stated ...