Not correct. This was all Sarvis’ fault. He accepted Democrat money knowing this would throw the race. He is a despicable piece of excrement willing to take a payoff and a dive.
D Winner M. Warner (i) 49.2% 1,071,283
R E. Gillespie 48.4% 1,054,556
L R. Sarvis 2.5% 53,396
I’ve never bought the theory that Libertarians take votes from Republicans and not Democrats. Libertarians are nothing more than Democrats who pretend to have a few conservative principles at election time.
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In the 2013 race for governor of Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe beat Republican Ken Cuccinelli by 2 percentage points, 48 percent to 46 percent. Libertarian Robert Sarvis pulled almost 7 percent. Exit polls showed that Sarvis actually gave Cuccinelli a fighting chance: “An exit poll of Sarvis voters showed that they would have voted for McAuliffe by a two-to-one margin over Cucinelli.”
http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/13/do-libertarian-party-candidates-always-p