Wyoming LP Spoiler Watch
Another of the elections where I was warned/promised that an LP candidate might beat the spread between his major party opponents has worked out exactly that way--for Wyoming's sole House seat, featuring the wheelchair bound Libertarian candidate Thomas Rankin, who has collected over 7,000 votes--with Republican incumbent Barbara Cubin (who famously threatened Rankin with a slap across the face, if only he weren't in that wheelchair) less than 700 votes ahead of her Democrat opponent. So there is every chance (and doubtless no proof) that at least 700 (10 percent) of those voters "would have" voted for the Dem if the LP option were not there--thus, in the cosmic major party balance, making up for the Indiana District 9 House seat that the Libertarian might have cost the Republican.
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CNN says that Trauner, the Democrat, is up by about 400 now.
Now these would have been doper 'rats I presume?
Love these "spoilers" maybe that will show the LP
the political advantage of keeping the dope issue
front and center.
Shem---CNN has Cubin ahead by exactly 700 votes right now....
Doherty, thanks for live blogging the libertarian races. Even Hammer of Goddamn Truth must have been at the Badnarik party, which is where I wish the hell I was.
Alone and drunk in LA.
Why hasn't anyone commented on the fact that the Libertarian in the Missouri Senate race has received almost twice the spread between Democrat and Republican, and almost equal to the spread in Montana? That's huge, and a perfect example of how the Republicans screwed themselves by alienating fiscal conservatives.
Joseph,
I think you just did.