The same for me. Why do you regard the winners as losers? What do you think they stand for? Moi, I think that the Constitution and personal freedom are everything. Of course maybe living in DC I realize how hopeless government is by any party, the looney left or the whacko religious right. For me the there is a third way - to get off this plane as defined by traditional republicans and democrats.
It's not what the stand for. It's their inability to get elected themselves, together with their ability to cause Democrats to be elected.
Take the 2000 Washington Senate race that incumbent Republican Slade Gorton lost to Real Networks spam queen Maria Cantwell by 2,229 votes. How do you suppose Libertarian Jeff Jared's 65,000 votes would have split between Cantwell and Gorton if he hadn't been in the race? Isn't it obvious Gorton would have been reelected easily without the Libertarian in the race?
Of course, if you live in a place like DC or Massachusetts, voting Republican isn't going to keep the Donk from winning. So, you can afford the luxury of a protest vote for the Libertarian. At least it shows in the vote tally.