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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How about we call a truce on social issues for a while and concentrate on those things we can agree on? We need a breather.
I am all for a cease-fire for a while, but liberal dems will not give up on it. They force their liberal social agenda down our throats. To the extent that libertarians assist them in pushing this sort of legislation, it undermines their supposed platform of reducing government intrusion into our lives.
I would be contented for now with the states handling these matters. The 10th Amendment can let Texans be Texas and let Californians be Californians. We have immediate fixable things we can work on — like reducing taxation, decreasing the size of government, and getting our budget under control.
There's a guy you might know who was once the head of the libertarian caucus of the California Republican Party.
His name is Jim Robinson. We're using his bandwidth to conduct this silly discussion.
Except Sarvis was a Democrat plant. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/05/revealed-obama-campaign-bundler-helping-fund-libertarian-in-tight-va-gubernatorial-race/
Him and any other 3rd party will realistically only harm Right candidates. Left is united. The Right is splintered because of GOP defeatists, so they will be only voters motivated to defect vote.
“Don’t stop believin”.
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