[raisetheroof]

In the 2010 general election, both Owen Hill (R) and John Morse (D) got just under 14,000 votes each, with Morse getting about 300 more. It's believed that if it wasn't for the Libertarian, the majority of the 1,300 votes he got would have otherwise gone to Hill, and so we ended up with Morse instead.

Truth be told, I'm of a libertarian bent as well, but it's more of a Rand Paul/Sarah Palin type. It's the doctrinaire Libertarians who've thrown this turd into the punch bowl.

[montomike]

Same thing happened in Montoland. The gov and sen races went to the dems because 5% of the vote went to the libertarians who were helped out by democratic front groups that got the libertarian vote out.