Posted on 11/08/2013 1:17:51 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
For the guy who finished third in the Virginia governor’s race, Robert Sarvis had a pretty good night on Tuesday. Sarvis was the Libertarian candidate in the election who pulled in just over 6.5% of the vote. This wasn’t just a landmark achievement for a third party candidate in Virginia but in the entire American South.
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Based on the exit polls, the average Sarvis voter was a younger, well-educated, pro-choice white who did not identify with either political party. In particular, Sarvis did well in suburban Richmond and in the Shenandoah Valley. Sarvis’s weakest areas were in coal country in southwest Virginia, where the biracial software developer from Northern Virginia struggled to get much more than three percent of the vote.
The question, which was heavily debated before, during and after the election was where Sarvis pulled his supporters from and whether his campaign drew more votes away from Democratic governor-elect Terry McAuliffe or from the socially conservative Republican, Cuccinelli. Based on the crosstabs of a CNN exit poll, it appears that statewide, Sarvis voters leaned toward McAuliffe as their second choice. However there was a lot of regional variation. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
In this case it was true.
If Sarvis was “pro-choice” so-called, is that just an indicator that voters would have gone to the Party of Death’s candidate in his absence?
“...young, well-educated, pro-choice whites....”
Just the folks who get to pay for Obozocare...fitting.
Shove it.
Jefferson was a libertarian.
The Founding Fathers were libertarians.
I'm a libertarian and always have been.
I have never voted for a Democrat since I registered to vote in 1970.
I saw that too...true to form from that Obozo suck up “conservative”......
Ditto.
Of course.
They would have thought those matters should be left to the states.
I wonder if these "low information" voters know that Starvis was a plant by the Democrats to siphon away votes for Cuccinelli? Starvis was not a Libertarian.
This younger, well-educated, pro-choice group identify with Democrats because they clearly have a disdain for the sanctity of life. After all, abortion avoids the responsibility and cost of raising children and supports the culture of death.
The GOP needs to get a clue but they are TOO STUPID. People do not like what they are peddling and the status quo politicians they support. People want something else (both on the Conservative and Lib side).
The tea party could capitalize on this in a big way, but they too have their blind side, though not as bad as the establishment GOP.
How can federal immigration policy be left to the states? Once someone’s a citizen, they’re a citizen of any state. So you can’t have one state making a decision to legalize anyone they want with the other 49 having no veto over it.
But there are lots of ways that libertarians do not agree with the conservatives at all. In fact, they think the conservatives are as bad as dems in a few cases. Things like drug legalization, abortion, gay rights. In some ways, there are big government conservatives. “More control over certain groups of people, less control over me.”
Where would a libertarian find common ground with conservatives in that case?
I am with you on Reagan approach. However, the electorate has changed since that time. Messaging must be different on some social issues. It must be more about what you are for and not what you are against. If you frame traditional values wrong you will repel the very middle of the road voters we need to win.
I learned my lesson about 3rd parties when big ears ran and spoiled it so Clinton won. Twice. I would love a really conservative actual Tea Party but it would be very difficult to get one started that pulled enough votes, it would take years and in the meantime we would become a dictatorship with no free elections, we are almost there now.
“Why are so many voters just pure idiots?”
I live in Minnesota. I ask myself that same question just about every election cycle.
The Tea Party IS the alternative to the establishment. Libertarians are a radical movement like the homosexual lobby. There is no libertarian tradition in America. The Tea Party is all about getting back to conservative, founding principles and rolling back progressive ideas. A movement that’s for open borders, same-sex marriage, cutting of our military and legalized drugs has more in common with progressives than not.
To the article which says that most of Sarvis’ base is liberal leaning Millennials.
I’d rather Republicans win (and we take on RINOS in Primaries) than left-wing/Marxist Democrats win who we know are actively trying to destroy America! (and I’m 33).
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