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Third Party Time?

This page gives one view of the information available to you either on this site or elsewhere on the World Wide Web . The information listed below is categorized by type: conversations with knowledgeable people, general reference sources, and a broad list of Web-based resources related to this year's presidential campaign, with a particular focus on third-party involvement.

Another view of this information can be found on the THEMES page, which categorizes information according to the major motifs of planning -- and carrying out -- a national campaign.

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CONTENTS

CONVERSATIONS

David Belmont
David Belmont is a staff member of the Patriot Party's national office in New York City. Beginning in the 1980s with Patriot's predecessor, the New Alliance Party, Belmont has worked on three national Presidential campaigns.
3PTThe Evolving Third Force: A conversation with David Belmont.

Tom Luce
Tom Luce, chairman of the Perot Petition Committee, managed the early phase of Ross Perot's 1992 Presidential Bid from Perot's announcement that he would run on Larry King Live to September 1, a few weeks prior to Perot's re-entry into the race. His comments are excerpted from a presentation at the Harvard Faculty Club in December 1992 as part of a meeting of presidential campaign strategists organized after the election every four years by the Kennedy
3PTAnalyzing the Early Campaign: Perot '92.

R. Clayton Mulford
Clay Mulford, general counsel and founding director of United We Stand America, was also the chief counsel and campaign manager (1992) for the Perot '92 Presidential Campaign. Mulford, a prominent figure in the area of election law, has concentrated many of his efforts in the fields of ballot access and campaign reform. Currently, he is a fellow at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.
3PTThird Party/Independent Politics: A brown-bag lunch with Clay Mulford.

Elaine Reding
Elaine Reding is headquarters manager and director of party building at the national offices of the Natural Law Party in Fairfield, Iowa. The Natural Law Party was founded in 1992 to "bring the light of science into politics." Within five months of its founding, the party mounted a presidential campaign and was on the ballot in 32 states.
3PTOut of Iowa: A conversation with Elaine Reding.

William Redpath
A member of the Libertarian Party for over a decade, Bill Redpath serves as chair of the national party's Ballot Access Committee. Redpath coordinated the Libertarian's successful effort to put their Presidential candidate, Andre Marrou, on the ballot in all fifty states for the 1992 general election.
3PTBallot Access - The View from the Street: A conversation with Bill Redpath.

Lowell Weicker
Weicker is perhaps most noted for becoming the first Independent to serve as governor of Connecticut in this century. Currently, Weicker serves as chairman of the 1995 International Special Olympics and is a partner of Dressing, Lierman and Weicker located in Bethesda, MD.
3PT"Is America Ready for an Independent President?"an ARCO Forum address by The Honorable Lowell Weicker.
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REFERENCE

The resources under this heading serve as general introductions to subjects basic to presidential campaign strategy. You'll find detailed information about these subjects and others at the web sites listed under Web Resources or on the THEMES page.

The Campaign Strategy Memo

3PTThe Rowe/Webb Memo

Ballot Access

local 1996 Petitioning for President (Table) as of April 3, 1996 from
WWW The Ballot Access News web site, with complete back issues.

The Electorate

The Electoral Process

Media

Money

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WEB RESOURCES

www The following links take you beyond "Third Party Time?".


The legend below describes key features of sites useful for completing your assignment.
SITE FEATURES
full text site offers free access to full text of archival material.
restricted site restricts access to archives. This usually means that you can call up a list of headlines but will be asked to pay a fee for full text of articles.
search site is searchable.
hot a particularly useful site for this assignment

General Reference

Also of interest:

Candidates

Third Parties

These organized parties were running presidential campaigns and appeared on the ballot in at least one state in 1996. See Presidential Status Summary, excerpted from Ballot Access News for more details on the final ballot status of these parties.

Addresses and telephone numbers are provided for parties that do not have a party or presidential campaign Web site.

Other parties and/or coalitions of parties

Indices

The Electorate

Indices

Online Information with Subsetting Capabilities

Other Sources

The Electoral Process

Issues

Media

Dedicated Sites - National Print & Broadcast Media

These sites were established during Campaign '96 and continue to carry daily coverage of current political events.

Campaign '96 Sites - Print & Broadcast Media

These sites, established during the 1996 campaign, are still accessible but not actively updated.

Campaign '96 Sites without Media Affiliation

News Articles about Campaign '96

A sampling of full text articles about independent/third party presidential candidates to the end of March, 1996, from various media sites on the Web

INDEX
1996
| JANUARY - MARCH |

1995
| SPRING | FALL |

PRE-1995

January - March 1996
Fall 1995
Spring 1995
Pre-1995
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Online Resources for Media

Money

Allies

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