Why should we not blame the voters? Who decides the election results, anyway?
The Libertarians from Reason magazine voted mainly for Obama in 2008. They had an issue where each described how he or she would vote, and they were almost all actually voting for Obama. In other words, they didn’t seem to be following their own beliefs. Libertarians voting for a Marxist? These people are not just occasionally nutty, but they are impractical when it comes to making important decisions.
That is when I stopped subscribing to Reason magazine.
What a curious result! Care to cite your sources?
In 2008, the magazine polled its staff as well as several contributors and prominent readers on whom they would be voting for. With the caveat that, many of these people aren’t on the magazine’s staff and several are not libertarians, these were the results:
Bob Barr: 18
Not going to vote/don’t like any of the candidates: 10
Barack Obama: 7
John McCain: 4
Ralph Nader: 1
McCain or Bar: 1
Obama or Barr: 1
http://reason.com/archives/2008/10/29/whos-getting-your-vote