\t\t\t\tSo how is it that the Republicans managed to win back the Senate, but lose so many governorships? The Libertarians had an awful lot to do with it, siphoning off more votes than the margin of victory in four states won by Democrats, according to lefty weirdo Stirling Newberry:<\/p>\n
\nIn Alabama, the difference between Siegelman, Democrat, and Riley, GOP, is 3000 votes. The Libertarian picked up 23,242. <\/p>\n
In Wisconson, Doyle, the Democrat, took 45% of the vote, the Republican incumbent took 41% – and the Libertarian took 10%. <\/p>\n
Anti-tax candidate Richardson, running as an independent, cost Steve Largent the Governorship in Oklahoma – taking 146,000 votes – when the two major parties were separated by just under 7,000. <\/p>\n
In Oregon, we have Ted Kulongoski, Dem 473,424 (48%) Kevin Mannix, GOP 466,778 (47%) Tom Cox, Lib 45,117 (5%)<\/p>\n
And two near misses: <\/p>\n
In Arizona, Hess, the Libertarian ran 4th with 16,518 votes – while th difference between the two main parties stands at: 17,600. <\/p>\n
In Wyoming, the Democrat holds a lead of 5,800 votes. The Libertarian took 3,699. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
…which just goes to reinforce the fact that the Libertarian Party is the most destructive force in American politics.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So how is it that the Republicans managed to win back the Senate, but lose so many governorships? The Libertarians had an awful lot to do with it, siphoning off more votes than the margin of victory in four states won by Democrats, according to lefty weirdo Stirling Newberry: In Alabama, the difference between Siegelman, … Continue reading “Libertarians do it again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-FQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}