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Unless W gets wise and takes my advice above :) Then you'll never matter again. And you won't be able to hold the GOP hostage anymore.

Please. If the GOP ever wanted to self-destruct, they would continue to p!ss off the social conservatives. If you were right, about social conservatives making up 10% of the population, I suspect the libertine-arians would be garnering more than 1-2% of the vote.

You're living in objectivist fantasyland. Give my regards to Dagny Taggert.

. If you were right, about social conservatives making up 10% of the population, I suspect the libertine-arians would be garnering more than 1-2% of the vote.

The polling data is right. If anything the numbers are a bit high.

But your conclusion makes no sense. Many people are uninformed. Many people aren't very bright. So no, I wouldn't think the number of Puritans in the voting block would really influence the number of LP voters.

How about you prove to me that 80% of the GOP voters are social conservatives?

16% of GOP New Hampshire voters consider themselves part of “the religious right” while 36% of the same voters in South Carolina associate themselves with this movement

http://www.adamsmithca.com/Columns%202000/Columns%202-4-00.htm

Whew. 36% in such a HUGE state as South Carolina. Somehow that'll add up to 60-80% :) I'll keep looking for ya...

BTW, here are the most populated US states. Hotbeds of Puritanism I bet.

1 California 2 Texas 3 New York 4 Florida 5 Illinois 6 Pennsylvania 7 Ohio 8 Michigan 9 New Jersey 10 Georgia