Hayworth holds out for final count ( 250,000 ballots not counted yet )

East Valley Tribune ^ | November 9, 2006 | Paul Giblin

[westmichman]

Libertarian=Losertarian

[george76]

[meandog]

Hey JD, call Jack Abramhoff...those 250K votes are all owned by the Navaho and Apache reservations there in Arizonia and Jack has connections there. You know Jack, don't you, he's the real reason you got defeated!

[meandog]

Arizonia=Arizona

[TeleStraightShooter]

good question.
Since it is currently behind by 32K votes it would need 55% of the remaining 321K

[Carling]

It would be pretty ironic if the libertarian candidate ended up being the difference, and JD lost.

That's exactly what happened in Montana, where the Libertarian received around 10,000 votes and Burns lost by around 3000 votes.

Yet some Dems are screaming MANDATE?

[Lakeshark]

Do you have a link to that?

Just a little skeptical, not that I have any thing good to say about the lousertarians.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

You have no f'in idea what your talking about about.

[PhiKapMom]

We lost many races across the country by less than one percent...while the Libertarian got two or three percent !

Can someone tell me why they continue to run when they get two or three percent except to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats? Here in OK you have to receive 5% of the vote as a third party to remain on the ballot in the next election.

[george76]

I do not know, but many of the uncounted ballots may be military who vote R alot.

[westmichman]

LOL That's prime. Too bad it looks like I'll have to sell all the stocks in my IRA tomorrow because of Libertarians.

[george76]

Many of these Libertarians demand perfection in their candidate.

Often they say that the candidate must be perfect...

[george76]

" Must be some kind of celebration at libertarian central knowing they've created a socialist landslide in the middle of a war."


by norton

[Aetius]

Still, I wonder how badly Congressman Rehberg could have beaten Tester. He won his House seat with 59%, so even though a Senate race would have been considerably closer, that would have been quite a bit of popularity to work with.

[george76]

...just this :

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" Makes you wonder if George Soros was donating to the campaigns of the local Libertarian candidates.

ACLU was pushing for the local Libertarian, Smither in TX CD22, who drew some Republican voters away from the Republican write-in candidate.

The DNC actually gave $50k to a nobody write-in candidate, in another attempt to bleed off support for the Republican write-in candidate."

by anymouse

[meandog]

You have no f'in idea what your talking about about.

He took Abramhoff's money didn't he?

[PerConPat]

"Must be some kind of celebration at libertarian central knowing they've created a socialist landslide in the middle of a war." by norton

My goodness, can't we all just get along? Perhaps the Libertarian Party are trying to return us to the golden days of yesteryear- the 100% Constitutional Society (that may have never been). Take heart, at the rate the Libertarians are gaining supporters, this will only take another 200 or so years. In the meantime, undereducated semi-patriots will just have to tough it out alone and do what they can at the polls to fight the Pelosi's etc..

[WOSG]

"Can someone tell me why they continue to run when they get two or three percent except to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats?"

No. However ...
Like some of the unappeasables on this board, I think there are some types who enjoy making us suffer socialism and tweaking nose of Republicans.

[CharlesWayneCT]

In Va Allen lost by 7000 votes, and the green-independent got 26,000. Hard to say she stole votes from Allen though, since I think she got the votes of people who hated both parties.

She actually offered to endorse either candidate if they would promise to consider rapid rail transit, but neither candidate took her seriously. Now she's saying she could have given Allen a win, but I doubt her "voters" would have listened to her and voted for Allen (well, maybe 7000 would have, but another 7000 would have probably gone to Webb just to vote against Allen).

Probably the libertarian voters would stay home or not vote, you don't go out of your way to throw away your vote unless you really don't want to vote for someone who can win. So I don't really think the libertarians cost us elections.

[PhiKapMom]

I think that is the reason too. From what I can read of the Libertarian platform they are more closely associated with the DemocRATs then Republicans.