"Many libertarians are right leaning"
Posted on 04/28/2021 5:20:49 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
If libertarians had voted for then-President Trump last year, he would have won. As close as the 2020 election was, it could have been a lot closer and far more complex — and its outcome reversed. Libertarian voters could have flipped the three closest states and sent the outcome in favor of the House of Representatives and Trump’s reelection bid.
Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party candidate from South Carolina, won 1,865,724 votes, just 1.18 percent of the total votes cast. Her campaign received minimal attention and her vote total seems equally insignificant, until its huge impact in Biden’s three closest states is seen.
Had Jorgensen’s votes in each of the three closest states gone to Trump, he would have won all three. Not only would he have won all three, Trump would have won Arizona and Georgia by multiples of the margin by which he actually lost in them — and he would have won Wisconsin by almost the same margin he actually lost it by.
(Even without PA) Trump’s flipping of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin with libertarian votes would have delivered 37 electoral votes to him — and pushed him into a 269-269 tie with Biden.
Under any conceivable scenario, had the votes cast for the Libertarian candidate gone to Trump, he would have won reelection.
For over a century, third parties have been American political spoilers, most recently in 2000 when Ralph Nader pulled away enough votes from Al Gore to throw Florida and the election to George W. Bush. What is not appreciated is that this just occurred on a much larger scale. America just missed having its most dramatic modern election, one that would have made the actual 2020 outcome pale in comparison.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
"Many libertarians are right leaning"
NO, they just would have manufactured that many more votes
This is a large mound of vile, rotten bull excrement.
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| Presidential Candidate | Vice Presidential Candidate | Political Party | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Donald J. Trump | Michael R. Pence | Republican | 62,985,153 | 45.93% | 304 | 56.5% | |||||||||||||||
 | Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | Democratic | 65,853,677 | 48.02% | 227 | 42.2% | |||||||||||||||
 | Write-ins | - | - | 1,171,436 | 0.85% | 7 | 1.3% | |||||||||||||||
| Gary Johnson | William F. Weld | Libertarian | 4,489,359 | 3.27% | 0 | 0.0% | |||||||||||||||
| Dr. Jill Stein | Ajamu Baraka | Green | 1,457,288 | 1.06% | 0 | 0.0% | |||||||||||||||
 | Evan McMullin | Mindy Finn | Independent | 732,409 | 0.53% | 0 | 0.0% | |||||||||||||||
| Other (+) | - | - | 453,896 | 0.33% | 0 | 0.0% | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 137,143,218 | 538 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 | Map Key
| Turnout | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Presidential | Vice Presidential | Political | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | ||||
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | ||||||
| Donald J. Trump | Michael R. Pence | Republican | 62,985,153 | 45.93% | 304 | 56.50% | ||
| Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | Democratic | 65,853,677 | 48.02% | 227 | 42.20% | ||
| Gary Johnson | William F. Weld | Libertarian | 4,489,359 | 3.27% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| 133,328,189 | ||||||||
| Joseph R. Biden, Jr. | Kamala D. Harris | Democratic | 81,285,974 | 51.26% | 306 | 56.90% | ||
| Donald J. Trump | Michael R. Pence | Republican | 74,225,754 | 46.80% | 232 | 43.10% | ||
| Dr. Jo Jorgensen | Jeremy 'Spike' Cohen | Libertarian | 1,865,602 | 1.18% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| 157,377,330 | ||||||||
| 11,240,601 | more votes total | Republican | ||||||
| 15,432,297 | more votes total | Democratic | ||||||
| 2,623,757 | less votes total | Libertarian |
Sorry, I don’t understand your rebuttal. Are you suggesting none of the voters who went libertarian are right leaning?
LOL. Yeah, that’s it. It wasn’t fraud, or the fact that republicans act like they are democrats half the time, or that the republican party and in fact the entire establishment including the courts abandoned him. It was them eeeeeevil libertarians!
Personally, I think Trump won in a landslide, but if you want to place blame for why he is not occupying the White House, you need look no further than the republican party itself.
That's how I read it. But please don't dignify a spew of graphics with the term "rebuttal." "Retort," perhaps.
Your initial post was absolutely correct - as can be seen by the fact that across the 50 states in 2020, the better Trump did the better the Libertarian did. For every 10% that Trump outperformed his official national average, the Libertarian outperformed hers by 0.2%.
Probably even more libertine-fairyans registered as Republican than that cast for Biden directly!
They wanted old horse head Cannibala in there once they finally get horse legs Biden into the Corn Gardens Twilight Home. She's pro-weed, and libertine-fairyans are comfortable as can be with liberals as long as they support legal weed.
I'm not saying there was no voter fraud, but I think libertine-fairyans are scared to their resin-smeared teeth that true conservatives are going to find them out!!
And this article is hereby BOOKMARKED, thank you very much.
BS. Cheating and crappy candidates lost the GOP the election.
If anything, Trump is more popular with the GOP base BECAUSE of his pro-business/property stances that are huge issues to Libertarians.
Digging up a six month old thread? Looks like I have a stalker.
Look up one more post...
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