At the point at which 94% of the vote had been counted in the special U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, the vote was: 1,148,400 for the Republican nominee; 1,029,600 for the Democratic nominee; 22,100 for the Libertarian who was running as an independent candidate. The percentages at that point were: Republican 52.2%; Democratic 46.8%; Libertarian independent 1.0%.
Here is a newspaper interview with the Libertarian candidate, Joseph Kennedy, conducted after the results were known.
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Hi Richard, over the last few days a number of news commentaries have pointed out that MA is one of eleven states in which independents (i.e. the unaffiliated) constitute a majority of registered voters. Unhelpfully, however, none that I have read actually tell us which states these are. I know Utah is one. Do you happen to know the rest?
go independent!
equal rights without enrollment
remember April 1, 2010
this is national census day
setting up congressional allotment/ re-apportionment/ and finally state redistricting year
see
non-affiliated voter party
and also
non-affiliated voter legal defense fund
reclaim all rights to the ballot line use of the name “independent”
see Strunk v US-DOC (census) USDC-DC 09-1295
My last registration table, showing all the states that have partisan registration and how many voters there are in each party, and also how many independents in each state, is in the December 1, 2008 paper issue. Those back paper issues are on this site. Go over to the right side of this site, near the top. Choose any back issue you wish by clicking on it. Don’t get confused with the blog archives.
Got it, thanks!
Mass – Obama Prez 2008 – 61.8 Percent
PANIC among the Donkey party hacks ???
What is the stuff in the Independent brain ???
6,000 plus years — MORE or LESS government.
Independent brains can NOT tell the differences ???
Perhaps a new species of human folks ???
The “next step” lesson from this election? . . .
If “independents” — or at least those of us who are willing to declare our independence from the Democrats and the Republicans — now outnumber either of those groups . . .
. . . then doesn’t that mean we don’t have to worry about spoiling an election . . .
. . . because we could actually dump both Rs and Ds and *elect somebody else?*
Heck, the voting population of the USA outnumbers those ELECTED officials in Washington DC (under 700) by 150,000 to 1. That is right, we outnumber them big time.
So lets all look in the mirror and ask why we keep buying into the two political parties from the 19th century and their machine of fundraising and marketing.
Because we are consumers and listen (buy) their marketing spin.