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3rd party candidates could tip key Senate races – Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
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By CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - A pizza deliveryman in North Carolina, a "libertarian cop" in Kentucky and an Alaska candidate - but not the one who was expected - hope to do what a Kansas businessman did this week: shake up Senate races as third-party candidates, an often-dismissed lot.
Greg Orman isn't a household name, but he's getting attention now. The independent Senate candidate in Kansas fared so well in his third-party bid to unseat three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts that the Democrat in the race, Chad Taylor, abruptly canceled his candidacy on Wednesday. With that, conservative Kansas landed on the list of conceivable, if improbable, Democratic gains in the national battle for Senate control.
Republicans must pick up six seats in November to win the majority, and the new uncertainty over Roberts' fate complicates their drive.
Kansas Republicans, worried about Orman possibly consolidating anti-Roberts sentiment, challenged the legality of Taylor's withdrawal. The Kansas secretary of state said Thursday that Taylor's name must remain on the ballot.
Orman's case is unusual. Most third-party candidates have no chance of being elected themselves. But in a handful of extremely tight races, including North Carolina, Alaska, Georgia and Kentucky, third-party candidates could help decide who wins and which party controls the Senate in the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.
Third-party candidates are chiefly a worry for Republicans. Many of these long-shot hopefuls are libertarians who tend to appeal to conservative voters, who otherwise might lean GOP.
The biggest impact by a third-party Senate candidate thus far came in Kansas. As Roberts was fighting a bitter GOP primary against Milton Wolf, Orman aired ads that declared "something has to change." In one, he looked over at a muddy tug of war between Republicans and Democrats and asks: "You guys accomplishing anything? Didn't think so."
Orman briefly ran for the Senate as a Democrat in 2008, when he says he voted for Obama. And he says he might caucus with Democrats in Washington if elected this fall. These details could help Roberts in a state that has elected only Republicans to the Senate since 1932.
Established Republicans are quick to note that most third-party candidates become nonfactors, winning minuscule portions of the vote.
The Bookworm Beat 9/3/14 what makes Progressives tick edition – Video
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Omisore will lose at tribunal APC
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The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has said the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, will face disgrace at the election petition tribunal.
The party said the PDP was manufacturing false information in order to discredit the August 9 election which produced Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the winner.
The party in a statement issued by its Director of Publicity, Strategy and Research, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, therefore, urged the people of the state not to believe the lies being peddled by the PDP, saying the PDP was incapable of telling the truth.
The APC said this while reacting to the suspension of two electoral officers by the Independent National Electoral Commission over alleged electoral malpractice.
The PDP had said the suspended officials helped in manipulating the outcome of the election in favour of Aregbesola.
However, the APC said, The PDP and its leadership will continue to suffer defeat and disgrace in the state for as long as it continues to propagate deceit and lies about goings-on in the state of the virtuous.
The PDP has again suffered the shame of being exposed as habitual liars in their mean attitude to political engagement in the State of Osun. The PDPs obsession to weave a structure of lies to support its baseless case at the tribunal has led the opposition party to clutching at straws and fabricating stories to give a semblance of validity to the tissue of lies that are behind its bogus case against Senator Iyiola Omisores defeat at the August 9 governorship election.
Cases at election tribunals can only stand on the basis of fact and credible figures, not on fabrication and lies that have become the habit of the PDP. That the current lie of the PDP against the APC and INEC has been exposed is an ominous precursor to the imminent defeat of the party again at the tribunal.
The APC, however, called on INEC to carry out a thorough investigation and prosecute the errant officials.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, has said the suspension of the INEC officials was a confirmation that the election was rigged to favour the APC.
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Ill declare bid for Presidency Sept 24 -Atiku
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Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has finally said he will contest for the position of the President in 2015 on the ticket of the All Progressives Congress.
He said he would be making the public declaration on Wednesday, September 24.
This was contained in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mallam Garba Shenu, in Abuja on Friday morning.
He said, The Turaki Adamawa will contest for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, in the 2015 presidential elections.
The former Vice President will be making the declaration on Wednesday, September 24.
He said that the campaign will be anchored by someone he described as a veteran of successful presidential contests and a former Minister, Prof. Babalola Borisade.
Borisade, he said, is also a well-known political strategist who worked for the victory of the late General Shehu Musa YarAdua and thereafter, late Chief M. K. O. Abiola on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party.
He said Borisade also worked as the strategist for President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 and 2003 elections, both of which were won resoundingly.
This is not about me, it is about our young people. It is about Nigerians. It is their future, not the past. It is about reforming government, securing the people and reconciling the nation, Atiku was quoted as saying.
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