My Love lost. So sick about this. And West’s defeat in FL as well.
Easy. The Paulbots struck again.
In any race that is close, we should assume the republican will lose 1 point to a third party candidate, and 1 point to fraud. So better be leading by 2-3 points on election night.
Democrats must be sending in contributions to the Libertarians.
Two Republican Congressional candidates lost in Arizona because of Libertarians getting 6% of the vote:
Paton in AZ District 1 (Lib vote 5.9%)
Parker in District 9 (Lib vote 6.3%)
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/results/election.php
Name one nationally known conservative Mormon elected official.
There aren’t any.
In some cases I just find registered Libertarians as not really all that principled, in terms of this country’s founding principles; that many times their vote seems no more than a “vanity” exercise.
Of what greater principle towards what any Libertarian hopes to achieve FOR THIS COUNTRY is it to have Ms Love defeated by her Dim opponent.
It seems that the Libertarian thinks that “see me, I got 5,000+ votes” makes some great and significant contribution to achieving Libertarian principles in goverment; knowing that Libertarians in Congress WOULD be able to partner with Ms Love on many issues, while not so with her opponent.
I am more and more convinced that registered Libertarians neither want to change the country or win - they just want to run.
The GOP is no “perfect” party by any means. But it is a hell of lot better than it would be if social Conservatives - from the 60s to the 80s - had accepted the GOP as unchangeable and gone their own third party route. They would be no stronger, collectively than they are today and the GOP would be weaker as well.
We need to work on showing Libertarians and social Conservatives the common ground in essential Liberty they share - on the principles - and get more cooperation and less competition between them; at least for everything post-primary.
The Libertarian party is really a creation of the DemocRAT Party. And the Libertarians are doing exactly what the Democrats want — defeating conservative Republican candidates.
that’s why runoffs are a great way to stop 3rd party candidates..if no candidate gets 50% plus 1 vote of the election..the top two candidates would appear in a runoff..only them..regardless of party..has worked wonders in Louisiana for decades now..would have stopped Jesse Ventura and al franken in Minnesota..
We all just witnessed a slow suicide by the GOP.
The only conceivable solution at this point would be to get libertarian (small "L").
It’s not demographics - the district is 91% white. And it’s not racism - this is Matheson’s 2nd narrowest victory in 7 terms. I’d say he’s vulnerable. One more run, and Love will take his seat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%27s_2nd_congressional_district
“How does a supposedly conservative, Mormon state like Utah elect a Democrat?”
Over the last 20 years, even Mormon Utah has had a huge influx of Californians, who could not stand to see a religious area with good jobs, little crime, continue to exist unopposed.
Not to mention, Tester(D) Montana defeated Rehberg(R) for the Senate seat, 48.7% to 44.6% with another 6.5% going to the supposedly Dem planted Libertarian, Cox.
The Matheson party is one of the most well known and well liked families in Utah, his father was a very popular Governor, the Courthouse in downtown SLC is named after his father. The folks of Utah like him.
Every few years the GOP legislature tries to change the district to get rid of him but it hasn't happened..as with Montana and other western states folks routinely will split their ballots voting for the GOP at the top of the ticket and a Dim or third party candidate down ticket.
That’s just too bad, really.
She is such a pretty girl and I love her beautiful smile.
Hope she tries again.