This isn't going to end well...

We're going to stay home and vote.

I've already voted.

 

No, everyone can vote on Wednesday. The election doesn't close until the 17th.

barfo

 

That would be next Tuesday. Not this Tuesday.

 

You do realize that we vote by either salmon or spotted owl. It depends on where you live.

 

Your calendar skills are really improving!

barfo

 

Hillary shows she loves Mexicans by having a Mariachi band play at her rally.



Next she'll ask to have the backboard lowered and see if any black people in the audience want to play basketball.

 

Apparently the basketball ring isn't the same height where Hillary is as it is in Indiana.

barfo

 

Denny, I got a (serious) question for you.

What's the process for getting the Libertarian nomination? I know the nominating convention is at the end of the month. Do you have to throw your hat into the ring beforehand, or is everything up for grabs? Are there/ were there Libertarian primaries? Signatures? Delegates? How does it work?

It seems to me odd that no well-known figure has declared for a third-party run - it seems like there is an obvious opening for a conservative to try it. But given how hard it is to get on the ballot in all states, the Libertarian party nomination seems like it would be the easiest route.

barfo

 

Just about anyone who's legally eligible for the office and not a candidate for another party can be recognized as a presidential candidate. They must be a dues paying LP member.

Electors are elected in the primaries, but they are bound to no candidate. The electors select the nominee at the convention.

If you want to run and win, you have to get your electors voted in during the primaries.

I've witnessed about a half dozen conventions. Some take more than one ballot. There's not any noticeable acrimony among the contenders.

Bob Barr, republican turned libertarian, was the nominee one year. I wrote in Ron Paul. Otherwise, I voted for the nominee. Honest and good men, every one.

Gary Johnson is polling at about 11% nationally against Trump and Hiliar.

If republicans refuse to vote Trump, then I suggest vote Libertarian. At least you'll get the smaller government you say you want.

The neocons are looking at starting their own 3rd party. I want no part of it, and I think it won't get real traction.

 

Besides the neocons, it seems like another splinter group that could try a 3rd party would be the social conservatives.

Back to the Libertarian Party - Is there anyone who could plausibly parachute in from the outside (having not participated in the elector election) and win over the electors?
Most obvious example - Rand Paul? Could he win, or would your party rather have Gary Johnson? Anyone else?

barfo

 

I think the Libertarians want to vote for actual Libertarians.

Rand Paul is the most Libertarian of republicans, but he's not at all his father.

Maybe Bernie Sanders can paratroop into the green party as their nominee, eh?

 

Maybe - I have no idea. But I'm not sure the Green party is on very many ballots, and also most democrats are fine with Hillary. Not every democrat, to be sure, but a larger fraction than republicans who are fine with Trump.

barfo

 

An awful lot of Bernie Sanders voters will not vote for the liar. dviss1 is a good example.

Awful is a well chosen word here.

 

Can't speak for dviss1, obviously. But a lot of Hillary supporters weren't going to vote for Obama in 2008. PUMA. But, in the end they did. Maybe it will turn out that way again. Maybe it won't.

It seems like Bernie supporters tend to be young, and young people don't like Trump even more than they don't like Clinton. But maybe they stay home or vote Green Party.

barfo