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The Classification of Political parties listed on TheGreenPapers.com.

  1. Major Parties (those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1976 and 2004)
    1. Democrats and affiliates
    2. Republicans and affiliates
  2. Third Parties
    1. Major Third Parties and affiliates (any Party, other than the Democrats and the Republicans, receiving a minimum of 2/10ths of 1 percent of the nationwide popular vote in any presidential election between 1976 and 2004 and which fielded candidates in the previous presidential election [2004] are hereby defined as "Major third parties" for the purposes of "The Green Papers" website. Excluded from this are non-party Independent bids for President which received at least 0.2% of the nationwide popular vote. See Criteria for including Major Third Parties.)
    2. Other Third Parties (i.e., not a Major Third Party)
  3. Independents (covering Unaffiliated, Nonpartisan and all the other synonyms/euphemisms for Independent)
  4. Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
 
    

America's Independent Party
  Affiliates: American Independent
Fenton, Michigan

Incumbents, candidates, and links to state affiliates
13 Candidates

Associated with Alan Keyes


American Independent
American Independent Affiliate of: America's Independent Party
California affiliate of America's Independent Party

Incumbents, candidates, and links to state affiliates
4 Candidates

On 28 June 2008 a dispute arose in the American Independent Party which resulted in the party changing its affiliation from the Constitution Party to America's Independent Party of Fenton, Michigan on 28 June 2008.


 
StatePartyCandidate or LinkOffice
Alabama  
Alaska  
American Samoa  
Arizona  
Arkansas  
CaliforniaAmerican Independent; (America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
American IndependentRobert Edmund LautenCandidate for House CD 47
ColoradoAmerica's Independentformer Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Connecticut  
Delaware  
District of Columbia  
FloridaAmerica's Independentformer Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Georgia  
Guam  
Hawaii  
Idaho  
Illinois  
Indiana(America's Independent)Michael L. FaithCandidate for President
Iowa  
Kansas(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Kentucky(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Louisiana  
Maine  
Maryland(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Massachusetts  
Michigan(American Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Minnesota(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Mississippi  
Missouri  
Montana  
Nebraska  
Nevada  
New Hampshire  
New Jersey  
New Mexico  
New York(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
North Carolina  
North Dakota  
Northern Marianas  
Ohio(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Oklahoma  
Oregon  
Pennsylvania  
Puerto Rico  
Rhode Island(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
South Carolina  
South Dakota  
Tennessee(America's Independent)Thomas F. "Tom" KovachCandidate for House CD 5
Texas(America's Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Utah(American Independent)former Ambassador Alan L. KeyesCandidate for President
Vermont  
Virgin Islands  
Virginia  
Washington  
West Virginia  
Wisconsin  
Wyoming  
 

Parties are listed as (party) where either it has been reported that a given candidacy is affiliated with a given Party but said affiliation does not appear on the ballot or 'The Green Papers' does not have independent confirmation from an election authority that the given Party has its own separate line on the ballot.

 


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