I hope you have had another cup of coffee. You're usually sharper than this.
The bottom line is that the democrats had to pretend to be conservatives to get their (as Sen. Johnson proves) their razor thin majority.
True, but that's irrelevant to this thread.
Registered Libertarians are just useful idiots for the left whether they do it knowingly or not.
Please look at my thoughts in comment# 1. The thread is not about Registered Libertarians. It's about the small 'l' libertarians, who are swing voters, and who just showed that Rove's theory of getting out the base was not enough last November.
They are about 10 - 15 percent of the electorate. Some may have voted for dems or Libertarians as a protest vote. I suspect that many of them stayed home on Election Day, IMHO. Many small 'l' libertarians are registered Independents, which in some states outnumber either the dems or GOP, sometimes both. For the latter, Arizona and Connecticut come to mind, IIRC.
Smackdown! By Independents & Moderates (Quotes are from the end of the article.)
"Because exit polls show there's a large chunk of the electorate that is moderate, independent-minded and turned off by partisanship. In exit polls, 47 percent of voters described their views as moderate, 21 percent liberal and 32 percent conservative. And 61 percent of the moderates voted Democratic this year.
"On party identification, 26 percent said they're Independent, which is in line with recent elections. But this year, Independents went Democratic by a 57-39 margin. That's what gave the day to Democrats. In the 2002 midterm, by contrast, Independents went Republican in a 48-45 split.
"The bottom line: candidates ignore the middle and nonpartisan at their own peril."
neverdem wrote: "The bottom line: candidates ignore the middle and nonpartisan at their own peril."
LOL! EVERYONE else is a partisan except themselves.