Number of votes for governor or president:
2010 - 20,818 - and that includes my vote over a RINO
2008 - 14,685 - against McCain
2006 - 7,087
2004 - 4,980
2002 - 12,411
2000 - 3,791
It takes well over 2 million votes to even be in the ballgame here for a statewide win. I'm not interested in suicide missions. I want to win. The way to do that is by taking over the GOP, and that is a 20 year+ sustained operation. 3rd parties are protest votes. That's the way it is, was, and probably always will be.
Robert Owens was a 2008 candidate for Ohio Attorney General, obtaining nearly a quarter million votes and smashing all previous vote total records by a non major party candidate seeking statewide executive office.