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Libertarian Robert Sarvis Drew Record High Votes in Virginia
Daily Beast ^ | November 8, 2013 | by Ben Jacobs

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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cuccinelli; dailybeast; democratinlclothing; kencuccinelli; libertarians; newsweak; robertsarvis; sarvis; terrymcauliffe; terrymcawful; thirdparty; va2013; virginia; virginiaelection
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To: Don Corleone

And it seems liberals can coalesce around somebody with 70% agreement on the issues.

Conservatives will shred each other over 10% disputes.


21 posted on 11/08/2013 1:34:41 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: elkfersupper
If left wing Millennials want to vote for left-wing leaning Libertarians over Democrats that's fine with me.
22 posted on 11/08/2013 1:34:59 PM PST by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
With a (third party) Tea Party, or whatever name you want, would give people a legitimate alternative.

If Conservatives left the RINO GOP party, the GOP would be DOA. Republicans can't win WITH the Conservatives, what could they win without them? NOTHING! Then Conservatives could negotiate, from a position of strength, with the Republicans instead of the Democrats.

It is time to leave the GOP. Third party NOW! It would grow rapidly as right leaning RINOs abandon the GOP, while independents would have a real choice.

Would a third party win the White House, the House, and a filibuster proof Senate, in it's first election? Of course NOT!

In order to build a new party, you have to get started. What better time than now?

23 posted on 11/08/2013 1:35:53 PM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Younger pro-choice whites, eh? Back when Rudy Giuliani was a serious possibility for the GOP nomination, this forum drew a surprising number of posters of that stripe. Wonder who they ended up supporting in the general election . . .


24 posted on 11/08/2013 1:36:37 PM PST by madprof98
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To: beandog

Smart libertarians run as conservative leaning republicans and actually win.


25 posted on 11/08/2013 1:36:56 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: JSDude1
If left wing Millennials want to vote for left-wing leaning Libertarians over Democrats that's fine with me.

I'm 61. To whom do you refer?

26 posted on 11/08/2013 1:36:57 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: freedom462

If the Libertarian funding is with laundered Dem money, I can’t see Libertarians working too hard for D votes.


27 posted on 11/08/2013 1:37:21 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Why do republicans think they would have recieved Sarvis’ voters were he not there? If the article is to be believed Sarvis voters were young, pro abortion, and “well educated” which means they spent more time than most in lefist endoctrination camps (colleges). That seems more like a democrat demographic to me.


28 posted on 11/08/2013 1:37:52 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: beandog

Conservative are about 40$ of the electorate. If we ever want to win elections, we have to convince people who call themselves libertarians and moderates to make common cause with us. How we do this and keep our core principles is the tricky part. I think the best way to accomplish this is to insist on smaller government and focus economic issues.


29 posted on 11/08/2013 1:39:02 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: elkfersupper

I don’t think it’s crap. True in more than this race.


30 posted on 11/08/2013 1:39:53 PM PST by Fledermaus (If we here in TN can't get rid of the worthless Lamar, it's over.)
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To: 3Fingas

40 percent


31 posted on 11/08/2013 1:40:39 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: Regulator

They didn’t care. Conservatives are persona non-grata with the RNC.


32 posted on 11/08/2013 1:40:50 PM PST by Fledermaus (If we here in TN can't get rid of the worthless Lamar, it's over.)
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To: nascarnation

Which is why they need to be self funded entirely. If they are smart, they would realize that pure Democrats put them somewhat below cockroaches and rat infestations and so they would be working on taking Dem votes away and forming coalitions with Republicans/Conservatives. If Libertarians, small l libertarians and social conservatives have an iota of common sense, they will all figure out that they simply must be in this together when they are fighting the statist tyrants. They cannot afford to tell each other to go screw themselves anymore.


33 posted on 11/08/2013 1:41:02 PM PST by freedom462
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The $&@%#]*^€ libertarians never get elected to anything themselves, but have sent dozens of extremist liberals to high office.


34 posted on 11/08/2013 1:41:08 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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35 posted on 11/08/2013 1:41:33 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: 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.

This @$$hjat received a good portion of his financial support for the Dems. Their intent was to pull as much support from Cuccinelli as possible and that is what he did. He is to the left of Cuccinelli on a number of issues and deserves a good kick in the Obama. I also blame the NRC for pulling money and giving it to Christie the RINO.

36 posted on 11/08/2013 1:41:38 PM PST by verga (We used to be the land of the free. Now weÂ’re just the land of the freebie.)
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To: elkfersupper

Sarvis was a libertarian?


37 posted on 11/08/2013 1:41:42 PM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: faucetman

I prefer Reagan’s idea - take over the existing party.


38 posted on 11/08/2013 1:41:54 PM PST by Fledermaus (If we here in TN can't get rid of the worthless Lamar, it's over.)
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To: Fledermaus
I don’t think it’s crap. True in more than this race.

Well, then you're going to have to wake up.

39 posted on 11/08/2013 1:42:12 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Brad from Tennessee
it didn't help when people like George Will and other RINOs praised Sarvis and dismissed Cuccinelli.

George Will: Cuccinelli is far from the best choice for Virginia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3083231/posts

40 posted on 11/08/2013 1:42:19 PM PST by FR_addict
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