In the Alaska U.S. Senate race, Libertarian Party nominee Joe Miller placed second, with 29.6% of the vote. The Democratic nominee, Ray Metcalfe, polled 11.1%. This is the first time any Libertarian nominee for either house of Congress has ever outpolled a major party nominee. Some might disparage Miller’s showing by saying he isn’t a “real” Libertarian, but the party did choose to nominate him. Miller had been the Republican nominee in 2010 for the same seat.
A trend, which extrapolated out three hundred years…
AK is one more LOW population area which should NOT be a State — like many of the western *States* — having more rocks and animals than humans.
To Demo Rep:
Should we then sell Alaska back to the Russkies?
Demo Rep Alaska shouldn’t be sold back to Russia, but I would like to start raising money to buy you a one way ticket to Siberia.
I thought Michael Cloud outpolled the R candidate in a MA US Senate race about 10-15 years ago. Not quite?
There was no Republican nominee in that race, so he didn’t outpoll a major party. He did do better than an independent write-in.
@Demo Rep: Alaska isn’t even the least populous state. It has more population than Vermont or Wyoming.