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Ah yes, the "waah, that spoiler took my votes" syndrome. Maybe if the GOP candidate had done something to, you know, inspire the support of the Ls.

Here in Florida, we had several State House and Senate seats where Democrats ran unopposed by Republicans, but there was a Libertarian opponent(there were a few where it was a Rep. vs. Lib, too). In most races, the Libertarian got 20% to 25%. Guess what? That means that in some cases, the refusal of Republicans to vote for a Libertarian, when there was NO Rep. running, put Democrats in the government.

Blame yourselves, Republicans, for your losses and for "socialists" winning.

That is EXACTLY what I am saying here; we need to team up to defeat the common enemy! Would I vote for a Libertarian over a D/S; heck yes! Would I vote for a Libertarian over a Republican? Maybe; but only if I didn't think it would put the seat in the hands of the D/S party!

It is well past time to recognize who the common enemy is! There are a couple. One is Osama been-'ludin, another is Tom Dashole! We need to get rid of both of them!

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Here in Florida, we had several State House and Senate seats where Democrats ran unopposed by Republicans, but there was a Libertarian opponent(there were a few where it was a Rep. vs. Lib, too). In most races, the Libertarian got 20% to 25%. Guess what? That means that in some cases, the refusal of Republicans to vote for a Libertarian, when there was NO Rep. running, put Democrats in the government.

You have the demographics for those districts?

If the Republicans cannot put up their own candidate, it seems likely that there really is no significant (greater than the 20-25% Libertarian vote anyway) Republican presence in that district anyway.

Here in Florida, we had several State House and Senate seats where Democrats ran unopposed by Republicans, but there was a Libertarian opponent(there were a few where it was a Rep. vs. Lib, too). In most races, the Libertarian got 20% to 25%. Guess what? That means that in some cases, the refusal of Republicans to vote for a Libertarian, when there was NO Rep. running, put Democrats in the government.

That right there is sad. Any numbers on total votes cast, that is to say, did the Republican voters simply not vote in those races, or did they swing Dem? Here in CT-3 we had Dem/GOP/Green running for House, but the only L representation was for Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State. Didn't even have ANY third parties running against Rowland/Curry for governor.

Here in Florida, we had several State House and Senate seats where Democrats ran unopposed by Republicans, but there was a Libertarian opponent(there were a few where it was a Rep. vs. Lib, too). In most races, the Libertarian got 20% to 25%. Guess what? That means that in some cases, the refusal of Republicans to vote for a Libertarian, when there was NO Rep. running, put Democrats in the government.

Huh? Maybe there was no republican running since there was no way anyone other than the dem would win! Your analysis has no merit without some numbers from those districts.

In most races, the Libertarian got 20% to 25%. Guess what? That means that in some cases, the refusal of Republicans to vote for a Libertarian, when there was NO Rep. running, put Democrats in the government.

Libertarian candidate Michael Cloud garnered 19% of the vote in a two-way race with Senator John Kerry from Mass. There was no Republican in the race.

That happened right here in the Bay area of California. Ellen Tauscher ran unopposed by a Republican for her congressional seat. If every Republican had at least voted for the Libertarian opponent there'd possibly be one less 'Rat in congress.

Candidate Party Votes Percent
* Ellen O. Tauscher Dem 109,884 75.3
Sonia Esther Harden Lib 36,089 24.7