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I live in Texas, and I voted for Johnson. If I lived in Ohio I would have voted for Obama. It's hard to find numbers at the moment, but it looks like Johnsons's

I live in Texas, and I voted for Johnson. If I lived in Ohio I would have voted for Obama. It's hard to find numbers at the moment, but it looks like Johnsons's pulling 5%.

rdl 14y ago
Nationally as a popular vote thing, plenty of people who voted Johnson might have voted for either Romney or Obama in their "safe" state otherwise. I live in Obamaland, support Johnson, but would not have voted for Obama if I hadn't voted for Johnson. So you can't just add 100% of Johnson to Obama.
emmapersky 14y ago
As of 3:03 am Johnson has 1% of the popular vote with just over 1M votes. http://google.com/elections http://google.com/elections
cglace 14y ago
I will never understand anyone who votes for the Libertarian candidate and then says their other choice was the far more progressive option. Is it because both are the contrarian play to something else?
- randallsquared 14y ago
  Are you confused because you believe that libertarians are on the right, maybe? If you examine libertarian positions, you might be surprised to find many of them "left" of Obama.
  - cglace 14y ago
    Socially, yes they are "left" of Obama. Where they differ on all positions is the roll of the government to remedy social and financial problems.
    - rdl 14y ago
      There are some issues which aren't fiscal (directly) but aren't really social policy (directly), where Libertarians are the farthest "left" (or right, or whatever) of the two big parties, and where people may vote based on morality. GTFO Afghanistan ASAP (and their overall isolationist position) is one of the big ones. I could see someone who was pro-state intervention in domestic life, pro big taxes, etc. still voting Libertarian if he thought GTFO Afghanistan ASAP was the most important issue. It's basically impossible to put US politics (or anywhere, really) on a strict left/right linear chart.
- gte910h 14y ago
  For people who social issues trump economic, Obama is far closer than Romney.
  - cglace 14y ago
    If you see the government as a solution to social issues I do not think you would vote Libertarian.
    - gte910h 14y ago
      Drug liberalization, abortion, prostitution, gay marriage, are all far closer to the left when compared to the libertarians than the right.
bkmartin 14y ago
For the record, Johnson is only pulling 1.1% in Texas and 1% nationwide. http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results And the only state he came close to costing Romney was Florida. But even so, he would have lost it by over 3000 votes if all Johnson supporters voted for Romney.

I live in Texas, and I voted for Johnson. If I lived in Ohio I would have voted for Obama. It's hard to find numbers at the moment, but it looks like Johnsons's pulling 5%.

rdl 14y ago

Nationally as a popular vote thing, plenty of people who voted Johnson might have voted for either Romney or Obama in their "safe" state otherwise. I live in Obamaland, support Johnson, but would not have voted for Obama if I hadn't voted for Johnson. So you can't just add 100% of Johnson to Obama.

emmapersky 14y ago

As of 3:03 am Johnson has 1% of the popular vote with just over 1M votes. http://google.com/elections http://google.com/elections

cglace 14y ago

I will never understand anyone who votes for the Libertarian candidate and then says their other choice was the far more progressive option. Is it because both are the contrarian play to something else?

randallsquared 14y ago
Are you confused because you believe that libertarians are on the right, maybe? If you examine libertarian positions, you might be surprised to find many of them "left" of Obama.
- cglace 14y ago
  Socially, yes they are "left" of Obama. Where they differ on all positions is the roll of the government to remedy social and financial problems.
  - rdl 14y ago
    There are some issues which aren't fiscal (directly) but aren't really social policy (directly), where Libertarians are the farthest "left" (or right, or whatever) of the two big parties, and where people may vote based on morality. GTFO Afghanistan ASAP (and their overall isolationist position) is one of the big ones. I could see someone who was pro-state intervention in domestic life, pro big taxes, etc. still voting Libertarian if he thought GTFO Afghanistan ASAP was the most important issue. It's basically impossible to put US politics (or anywhere, really) on a strict left/right linear chart.
gte910h 14y ago
For people who social issues trump economic, Obama is far closer than Romney.
- cglace 14y ago
  If you see the government as a solution to social issues I do not think you would vote Libertarian.
  - gte910h 14y ago
    Drug liberalization, abortion, prostitution, gay marriage, are all far closer to the left when compared to the libertarians than the right.

bkmartin 14y ago

For the record, Johnson is only pulling 1.1% in Texas and 1% nationwide. http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results And the only state he came close to costing Romney was Florida. But even so, he would have lost it by over 3000 votes if all Johnson supporters voted for Romney.