Posted on 11/06/2008 8:03:34 AM PST by Impy
Barr brags over Tuesday showing Email|Link|Comments (19) Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 5, 2008 07:05 PM
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr is crowing after his showing in Tuesday's election, where he won enough votes -- not in his home state of Georgia, but in North Carolina -- to hold the balance of power.
In North Carolina, which remains too close to call, Democrat Barack Obama has a 12,000-vote lead over Republican John McCain, and Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, has 25,181 votes, or 1 percent.
In Georgia, McCain won with 52 percent of the vote, while Barr won 28,622 votes, or about 1 percent.
And in Indiana, Barr prevented Obama from winning a clear majority. Obama had barely 50 percent, rounded up, while McCain had 49 percent, and Barr had 29,102 vote, or 1 percent.
UPDATE: Barr won about 489,000 votes nationally, compared to 657,000 for independent Ralph Nader, according to the latest tally by the Associated Press, counting 98 percent of precincts.
"This is just the beginning of the new Libertarian Party," Barr said in a statement issued this afternoon.
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ditto
Yeah, I can see the ads now: "Boortz wants to add a 23% sales tax to everything you buy."
Great analogy.
This should have been a big year for the Ls, what with a RINO on top of the Republican ticket and all the pent-up enthusiasm for Ron Paul with nowhere to go. If they ran someone with the pinache of Ross Perot, they’d have netted plenty more votes. That goes for the Green Party as well. Environmentalists were having a great year, at least until oil prices skyrocketed. Think of how many votes they’d have got if Gore were on their ticket.
I know boob barr personally. Trust me he’s an ash hole.
The fact that he cost us anywhere is appalling. This man is a egomaniacal monster. Exactly what does he think he accomplished by helping elect a Stalinist terrorist-supported totalitarian ?
I’m not, but I believe the majority of those would have gone McCain.
I’ve not been reading that publication.
What you say is really sickening.
Lots of people who call themselves libertarians care more about ANTIWAR, legal pot, and civil rights for terrorists than about curbing big throbbing government power. Also they foolishly fail to see demrats as worse on the economy given GOP spending spress. And then there is the social liberal element.
Messiah Ron Paul seems to encourage the foolishness, didn’t back McCain. Can’t believe I used to like him.
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