[rond]

Claims of a Democratic victory in Missouri's U.S. Senate race are greatly exaggerated, it seems.

[bmwcyle]

And like always Libertarians suck.

[zendari]

I'm guessing he would have lost anyway.

[george76]

" A glaring difference: The Libertarian candidate went from 1 percent in 2002 to 2.3 percent in 2006."

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Like the Perot voters who wanted to punish Bush 41..so we got Clinton !

[Echo Talon]

[RangerM]

Talent defeated Talent

[Truth is a Weapon]

In my opinion, people who vote Libertarian would be better served to pick one of the major parties and try to influence its platform. Voting for a third party candidate most often gives the election to the candidate who is the polar opposite of your ideals.

[Edit35]

For all the encouragement we (as Repubs) got via talk radio, I don't believe many people were as energized as Hannity, Rush, Hewitt, etc. liked to claim.

I worked closely with my local GOP campaign headquarters, and we could not get thousands and thousands of normally reliable GOP voters to come out an vote.

They simply gave an excuse, or refused, or said they were upset with the national GOP.

Unfortunately, it cost many a local conservative Repub candidates their office.

[demsux]

The NRA's lack of attention to Missouri cost us this election!

No more dues from me.

[jwalsh07]

Talent has no fire in his belly. A nice enough fellow but not somebody people naturally follow. He didn
t do real well with men voters and I think I understand why.

[YOUGOTIT]

Libertarians Defeated Talent?
So the hairy anti-Americans strike again?

[NittanyLion]

We can only be certain of three things as it relates to Libertarians:

1. They're too insignificant to have an impact on anything
2. They're more closely aligned with the Democrats anyway (that's why they're called "liberaltarians")
3. They stole enough votes from GOP candidates to impact the election

See any flaws in that logic?

[nopardons]

Damned dogs in the manger Libertarians strike again.

[fortheDeclaration]

I think complaining about the Libertarian Party is pointless.

They are spoilers and that is their function.

They have every right to run, just as the Green Party does and we have to accept that.

[tacticalogic]

The Libertarians gained 1.3%, and Talent lost 2.4%. Where the hell did the other half of his loss come from?

[EDINVA]

a win is a win .. but as to the % in R-Leaning Missouri counties ... we experienced the same thing here in Northern VA with our Congressmen who garnered 65+% in 2004 and only in the mid-50% range this year. The pendulum swings. R's will be back. Sorry for your loss (and ours, it seems)

[Mamzelle]

Libertarians love losing so much, that they want the whole country to lose, to share in the joy of "losing with principle."

So they've chipped off enough voters to really get our taxes high. These are the guys who wanted the GOP to throw out the religious right.

[Republican Wildcat]

I think Libertarians take more away from Democrats than Republicans.