Posted on 11/08/2013 1:17:51 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
For the guy who finished third in the Virginia governor’s race, Robert Sarvis had a pretty good night on Tuesday. Sarvis was the Libertarian candidate in the election who pulled in just over 6.5% of the vote. This wasn’t just a landmark achievement for a third party candidate in Virginia but in the entire American South.
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Based on the exit polls, the average Sarvis voter was a younger, well-educated, pro-choice white who did not identify with either political party. In particular, Sarvis did well in suburban Richmond and in the Shenandoah Valley. Sarvis’s weakest areas were in coal country in southwest Virginia, where the biracial software developer from Northern Virginia struggled to get much more than three percent of the vote.
The question, which was heavily debated before, during and after the election was where Sarvis pulled his supporters from and whether his campaign drew more votes away from Democratic governor-elect Terry McAuliffe or from the socially conservative Republican, Cuccinelli. Based on the crosstabs of a CNN exit poll, it appears that statewide, Sarvis voters leaned toward McAuliffe as their second choice. However there was a lot of regional variation. . .
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Gee, that’s great Bob.
Why are so many voters just pure idiots?
Here’s hoping people wake up and vote for libertarian candidates until this crap stops.
Because they seem to be stuck on voting for either the Democrat or Republican candidate in every race in every election.
What a creep
The Demoncrats call these people "useful".
That's why the Libs/Marxists find a way to finance a Libertarian in many races..to draw votes from the Republican/Conservative and insure their own win. Ta Da!!
/johnny
People are fed up with both the dems and the repubs. Voting LIbertarian is a protest vote for many. Yes, I know many actually vote Libertarian because they consider themselves Libertarian. It just goes to show how much people are fed up with the two major parties.
Rove (OK just shoot me) says this is just one of many.
The Dems have so much dough from crony capitalism they are gonna run this play until it stops working.
There may be many Dems winning with the fabled “Clintonian plurality” in the future, sadly....
That’s crap and you know it.
I just wish there was some way to draw those votes away from the Democrat Party. Gary Johnson, for all the serious flaws about him we would see as conservatives, at least showed a sort of blueprint for drawing away votes from Democrats as well. The Libertarians will hopefully figure out that the primary goal should be drawing votes away from Democrats, since Democrats view them as below dirt on every level anyway. Having a combination of Conservatives and Libertarians in power will obviously not be that great for many people on here, but in VA, with McCaulilower, we now see the much more horrific alternative.
Notice the hidden barb about him being biracial? He didn’t do better because Virginians are bigots?
Typical Liberal MSM.
The Marxists started infiltrating the Libertarian party back in the 1990s. Now these fascists and communists own it.
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Aw, c'mon folks...that's a Barack front liner.
This guy was a set from the get
And the RNC didn't get that??
You shouldn't talk about yourself like that. Leads to a bad self-image.
Idiots. Pure idiots.
Over a few issue differences they helped elected an avowed statist.
Idiots.
I’m feed up with libertarians.
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