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Wyoming Newspaper Story Says Libertarians Might Elect a State Legislator or Two — 20 Comments

  1. I never had heard about the violence at the Wyoming Republican Convention before. Does any one know if it was reported in the Mainstream Media?

    Besides that, good questions at the debate last night Winger, I was excited when your segment started, and it’s amazing how much of a unifying figure you are among third parties from across the spectrum.

  2. Wyoming … transcontinental railroad that helped make Wyoming a state? Socialism. Yellowstone National Park? Socialism.

    “But we’re rugged individualists!”

  3. As socialists are fond of sarcastically saying to others – “Socialism is when the government does something.”

  4. Bethany may be a fine person, and a fine candidate, but I saw nothing on her website which said that she is running as a Libertarian Party candidate. I know that state legislature in Wyoming is a partisan office, as in they do print party labels on the ballot. I understand she is trying to win, but why run as a Libertarian Party candidate if you are not going to promote the brand?

  5. This might be a bad year for third/opposition parties at the Presidential level, but a good one downballot. It is quite possible that the Libertarians won’t be the only such party to elect a candidate to a state legislature. We have a couple of strong Green candidates here in IL, particularly where I live in the 115th state representative district (Carbondale/Mt Vernon area) where the Democrats not only didn’t run a candidate, but they’re supporting ours in a three-way race that also includes a Republican and a Libertarian.

  6. Andy,

    These are small districts. She should have the opportunity to meet every voter, most several times, making it a purely retail endeavor. In fact she probably met most of them 2 years ago when she lost by just 50 votes. Now the person who defeated her is stepping down and despite sharing the R label with her opponent, has endorsed her campaign. She ran as a Libertarian last time and so there is no real secret about her brand anyway. It’s just politics done right. You will see all politicians deemphasize their brand when they are fighting for the crucial votes to put you over the top in a close race.

  7. See *socialist* in the names of the communist and nazi regimes in the 1900s–

    millions killed/enslaved.

    Coming to USA in a few weeks ???

  8. I am not sure if it is politics done right or not. We shall see if she wins, and what she does in office if she is elected.

  9. She almost defeated the house majority leader 2 years ago.

    I didn’t realize how moribund the state Democrats are. The State Senate is 27-3 Republican and the State House is 50-9-1 Republican (the 1 being Independent).

    I’ve tried to make this argument of the Democrats are a dead party in vast swathes of this country. The nationalization of politics has made them so. Whatever the Biden vote is in the election next week should be considered their high-water mark. If it’s not close to 50%, how could they ever win that area again? In Indiana, they’re running their most left-wing gubernatorial candidate ever and are going to get absolutely destroyed as he’s raised no money beyond what he’s lent himself because he’s rich and are not running TV ads. Meanwhile the Libertarian has TV ads, lots of coverage, and I see way way more signs for him than I do the Democrat to add on a local anecdote. Straight ticket voting and the cities will probably carry the Democrat to 2nd place but I’m really going to pay attention to county results to see where the Democrat comes 3rd county-wise. They are ripe for replacement for 2nd-party status in those places.

  10. LOTS of urban precincts in urban New Age ghetto Old Age cities that are 99 plus pct RED Donkey communist.
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    PR and AppV
    TOTSOP

  11. I live in New Mexico and very few Republican nominees put their party name on their signage so I wouldn’t read too much into a Libertarian who is actually trying to win not touting her party. As Vince Lombardi said… “Winning isn’t everything… it’s the ONLY thing!”

  12. 2016 Prez total votes —

    WY — 255,849 — LOWEST 2016 State — More mountains than humans in WY ???

    DC 311,268

    FEC, Federal Elections, 2016, p.6 pdf
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    Many LOOOOW pop States created after USA Civil War I to try to have PERMANENT Elephant control of USA Senate.
    Abolish the minority rule USA Senate [and Electoral College – Senate = 100 of 538 EC votes]

    PR and AppV
    TOTSOP

  13. Everybody knows who Republicans and Democrats are. If the Libertarian Party is to ever become successful, it needs to achieve the same brand recognition that the Republican and Democratic parties have, and it is more difficult to do that when your Libertarian candidates feel like they have to hide the Libertarian brand.

  14. Ryan, are you saying that Myers is actually left-wing, or that he’s just the most left-wing the Democrats have ran here? Because from how I see him, while he’s better than Gregg ever was, he’s nothing to write home about.

  15. He’s the most left-wing major statewide (Governor, Senator) candidate the Indiana Democratic Party has ever ran. Gregg per Chris Spangle of We Are Libertarians who ran the Libertarian candidate’s campaign in 2012 was the most right-wing Democrat ever in 2012,and 4 years later had gone incredibly 180 degrees from some of his positions from 4 years prior. It screwed up Gregg and the Democrats in the state that Pence was made veep. They really wanted to run against him, although with benefit of hindsight Pence likely wins.

    I’m trying to get a handle on what I feel governor race results will be and polling has been everywhere. Rainwater could get 6, he could get 16. Myers could get 35, he could also get 25.

  16. By the current (incomplete) results, Baldes lost in the 55th district by 32 votes, while Burt won in the 39th district by 276 votes, so there will be one libertarian in the next Wyoming Legislature

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