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Nevada: Gary Johnson pulling more votes from Obama than Romney in tight race
Romney’s big gain over the last month has been with white voters, who he’s going from leading 52-45 with to 55-42. He’s made gains across the party spectrum, notably increasing his crossover support with Democrats from 10% to 16% and cutting Obama’s lead with independents from 15 points down to 7 points.
The main groups fueling Obama’s continued lead are Hispanics, who give him a 67-32 advantage, and young voters who favor him 67-33.
When Gary Johnson’s included he gets 3% and actually takes mostly from Obama, pulling his lead over Romney down to 48/47. That could be something worth keeping an eye on.
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You make a bit less sense than this.
If all these politics is so beneath you, why are you here at all? To insult people whom you consider not “pure” enough to be libertarians, to accomplish… what, exactly?
Rebar on October 11, 2012 at 5:23 PM
They are one in the same.
nazo311 on October 11, 2012 at 5:23 PM
What made me laugh, was that they ran Bob Barr last time.
Bob Barr, really? His actual voting record is about as far polar opposite of every single value libertarians claim to hold as is possible – and they ran him on the top of their ticket anyway.
In the LP – money talks values walk.
Rebar on October 11, 2012 at 5:26 PM
Most social conservatives are pro-life and believe that the government has a legitimate role to play there, because prohibiting abortion is actually protecting liberty — the liberty of the unborn child. Abortion has nothing to do with the liberty of the mother, since a second person with their own rights has been created.
Beyond that one single issue, though, where do you see social conservatives wanting to use government power, even to the degree of the “godless commies,” to push their moral code on non-believers? I know libertarians like to get their panties in a wad about drug laws, but that is one single issue and, believe it or not, is not one in which social conservatives act as a single, monolithic group. I, for one, oppose federal drug laws, for example, except as relates to importing or exporting drugs from the country, because I don’t see where the constitution grants the government that power.
But I am a social conservative because I believe that the root of all of our problems today, including the economic problems, is the breakdown of families and of our collective societal morality. However, my solution to that is not to have the government somehow attempting to mandate a return to morality. Rather, I want to see the government get OUT of things which are leading to the social problems we have today. Like welfare state programs that have led to fathers being replaced by government benefits. And so on.
Shump on October 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM
Seek help.
Mimzey on October 11, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Case in point:
Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama
The case against casting a ballot for the president — even if you think he’s better than Mitt Romney
I’ve been forwarding this article to all the hopeless libs I know.
right of the dial on October 11, 2012 at 6:37 PM
As 0bama continues to fall in the polls, this could turn into a preference cascade – “he’s going to lose anyway, so let me register a protest vote with Johnson”.
This is to be heartily encouraged, as you have been doing.
Rebar on October 11, 2012 at 6:48 PM
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