I don’t believe it. The libertarian pres candidate usually ends up with about 1% of the vote. I expect it will be similar this election. I sure don’t hear any excitement about Gary Johnson and him being the alternative people were waiting for........
Ross Perot had to dominate the news cycle for weeks on end to reach double-digits as a third-party candidate.
Most voters think Gary Johnson is the guy who played the Professor on Gilligan’s Island.
Not buying it.
Did anyone see the clip of the Libertarian convention, at which one of the candidates for Party Chairman did a striptease? Yep, a hugely fat, hairy, tattooed guy danced around, then stripped down to his corpulent flesh. Headline on Yahoo afterwards: “Libertarians fear striptease hurts party's credibility”. Hmmm...you think?
“I sure don’t hear any excitement about Gary Johnson and him being the alternative people were waiting for........”
Is he the guy who tore his clothes off onstage at the libertarian convention?
“I sure don’t hear any excitement about Gary Johnson and him being the alternative people were waiting for........”
Is he the guy who tore his clothes off onstage at the libertarian convention?
I agree.
I checked every election back to 1960.
Libertarian candidate Ed Clark, from California, got 1.06% of the popular vote in 1980 (Reagan v. Carter), which is the all time high for Libertarians.
Libertarian Gary Johnson also ran in 2012 (Romney v. Obama).
Gary Johnson got 0.99% of the vote in 2012.
USUALLY the Libertarian gets much less than 1%, in 1980 their nominee, Ed Clark, running as a “low-tax liberal” got 1.06%, their all time high. Johnson’s 0.99% last time is in second place. Third place is Harry Browne’s 0.5% in 1996. Clark got 11.66% in Alaska, by far the best libertarian performance in any individual state in a Presidential race. Johnson’s 3.55% in New Mexico is second I believe.
In 1972, their first election, they got only 3600 votes (no idea how many state’s ballots they were on) but got their 1 and only electoral vote from a rogue Republican elector, that act was a major boon to the new party. The faithless elector ended up becoming their 1976 Presidential nominee.
Across 10 elections, 1976-2012, their average is 0.484%, take out Clark and Johnson’s performances and the average drops to 0.34875%.
Johnson will likely surpass 1% this time and set the new high but 11% would be quite the leap, I would wager on under 5%. I hope I’m right. Hard to see us winning if he’s pulling in double digits.
Garry is even the last choice for libertarians. They do not like him very much