I thought Libertarian candidates suck votes away from both parties, essentially making it a wash.
Liberaltarians only take votes from Republicans, Greens only take them from the Dems.
You are correct Sir......Dems are just as disappointed with Obama as republicans. The Republicans have not considered Ken’s turn against the tea party as the problem with gubernatorial race in Virginia... just the lousy third party candidates taking votes away. A third party wouldn’t be an issue if Republicans were true conservative rather than a branch of the one party socialist system we have now. Remember, right-wing think tanks with the help of the insurance industry wrote Obama care. So, the establishment Republicans feign outrage in public while quietly supporting it behind the scenes.
“THU NOV 15, 2012 AT 01:54 PM PST
Libertarians provided the margin for Democrats in at least nine elections
As we’ve perused last week’s election returns, we’d noticed a number of races where Libertarian candidates appear to have played spoiler for Republicans—certainly, more than we’re accustomed to. While we haven’t run a comparison with prior cycles, we’ve identified no fewer than nine contests in 2012 where the Libertarian received more votes than the difference between the Democratic and Republican candidates. What’s more, none of these involved the typical 1 or maybe 2 percent you ordinarily expect a Lib to garner: Looking at the three-way vote, all but one were over 3 percent, and three took 6 percent or more, with a high of 6.5 percent in the Montana Senate race. These definitely seem like unusually high figures.”