You know that is what I heard, but when I went to the individual states to look it up, it looked like McCain still would have lost Indiana, it was close though, 19,243 for Barr and a loss of 25,836 for McCain... at least that is my notes.. People like Barr tick me off, he didn’t have the guts to run in the primary and went in just to act as a spoiler.
Hmm, I’m looking at Dave Leip’s site and this is how he has it:
Barack H. Obama (D) 1,374,039 49.91%
John S. McCain (R) 1,345,648 48.88%
Bob Barr (L) 29,257 1.06%
Barr appeared, by roughly a thousand votes, to have cost McCain. It’s shocking that McCain even lost at all even with Barr, since the state hadn’t voted Democrat for President since 1964.
In NC it’s looks like he’d need half the Barr votes to win so yes he’d have gotten that.
He’d need nearly all in Indiana. Some would’ve not voted or voted and I’m sure some would have Gobama-ed (do we make enough words from “Obama” or what?). Some anti-war zealots.