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Title: Libertarians have ‘good reason to be optimistic’ (43% of Americans are independents, 30% D, 26% R)
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The Washington Times
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Published: Jan 25, 2015
Author: Jennifer Harper
Post Date: 2015-01-25 22:46:25 by Hondo68
Keywords: tenacious Libertarian Party, Gary Johnson, 2016 presidential debates
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Comments: 7
A recent Gallup poll revealed that self-described “independents” are the nation’s largest political demographic. Indeed a record-breaking 43 percent of Americans now say they are independents, compared to 30 percent who are Democrats and 26 percent who are Republican. Now comes some promising news for the tenacious Libertarian Party, which plans multiple state conventions in the coming months and offered its own response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week. The party “enjoyed its best cycle ever in races for the nation’s upper legislative chamber,” reports Eric Ostermeier, a University of Minnesota political professor and founder of Smart Politics, a research group on the campus. Their analysis found that the Libertarian Party set records for the best showings in U.S. Senate races in 10 of the 20 states in which it fielded a candidate in 2014. “These 20 candidates averaged 2.5 percent of the vote, with a high water mark of 4.3 percent by Randall Batson in Kansas in the high profile race between Republican incumbent Pat Roberts and independent Greg Orman,” Mr. Ostermeier says. His study also found that libertarians “made history” in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Libertarian candidates won from 1.3 percent to almost 4 percent of the vote, with “particularly impressive” performances in North Carolina, Colorado and Alaska. “Although these states hosted three of the four most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country — decided by 1.6, 1.9, and 2.1 percentage points respectively — Libertarian nominees were still able to draw support from the electorate in record numbers,” says Mr. Ostermeier. “The Libertarian Party has good reason to be optimistic about its trajectory on the national political landscape.” Gary Johnson, who ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012, is also mighty vocal these days, labeling the aforementioned address as “wrong in too many ways too list,” and serving as chairman of Our American Initiative, a national push to include third-party candidates in the 2016 presidential debates.
Gary Johnson, who ran for the White house in 2012 as the Libertarian Party candidate, now leads a national movement to allow third party candidates in national presidential debates. (Associated press)
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I met Gary Johnson several years ago. I asked him ''is New Mexico accepting refugees from the disaster known as California?"....(true story)
And what was his reply?
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" I asked him ''is New Mexico accepting refugees from the disaster known as California?"....(true story) "
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