The Iowa Libertarian Party held presidential caucuses in every county on January 15. This new story gives some results. Chase Oliver won the caucus vote.
Caucus attendees voted on a printed ballot, which included approximately 20 names. Write-ins were permitted.
Independent Political Report has more complete results at the bottom of this story.
NO CAUCUSES, PRIMARIES AND CONVENTIONS FOR OFFICE NOMINATIONS
NATL MAIL BALLOT OF LP MEMBERS IN JUNE
APPROVAL VOTING —- PENDING CONDORCET = RCV DONE RIGHT
Another retarded idea from AZ.
Chase Oliver is still a communist.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-past-u-elections-160219651.html
HOW MANY USA ELECTIONS RIGGED BY COMMIES SINCE 1917 LENIN REGIME ???
It doesn’t look like very many people voted.
Congratulations Chase Oliver. If the wins the nomination, I might just come back to the Libertarian Party after Joe Biden gets reelected.
Joe Biden will never get reelected. You are living in a fantasy world in your imagination.
No skin off my back as a Republican now either way, and Trump will win in a landslide, but just mildly curious why communists even want to masquerade as libertarians to begin with. Or why the libertarians would entertain it.
What do people like Zhani Doko and Chase Oliver find appealing about a minimum government, maximum private property rights minor party, if they are communist and/or fantasizing about Beijing Joe having another 4 years to destroy America and turn us into Red China Jr?
It’s not like libertarian nominees get some tremendous amount of money from the party, media attention, or adoring fans everywhere they go. Anyone who wins that dubious prize will catch a whole lot more grief than freebies or benefits of any kind, and that’s even more true if they are only faking libertarian beliefs to begin with.
I mean, at least the true believers have that to keep them motivated, despite everything.
What do the charlatans get? Not the lavish lifestyle that charlatans might achieve in, say, religious evangelism or business. Not the sexual benefits of pretending to be a movie or modeling agent, photographer, or bigwig or rich or influential and connected guy of some sort.
Just a bunch of crap from a very skeptical or downright uninterested media and public, and relentless nastiness from their own internal firing squad which expects impossible perfection and everything for nothing.
Their organization is little to nonexistent, so a candidate mostly has to build everything from scratch, while having to answer for their platform and past candidates, party spokespeople, etc. They get more “friendly fire” and incompetent meddling than help from libertarians.
So, what’s the big motivation for people who are not in fact true believers? Are they merely completely delusional about what kinds of resources libertarians command? Is the libertarian party really enough of a threat to anyone or important enough to hate so much to make it worth the effort to try to hijack?
Honestly, I don’t understand what possibly motivates these folks.
why don’t you seek them out and talk to them?
PF-
SEE 2020 MARGINAL STATES
HAVE COMMIES OR FASCISTS OR BOTH TAKEN OVER THE LP
— DUE TO THE MANY FATAL DEFECTS IN THE LP BYLAWS ???
Richard, presuming that was addressed to me? That’s actually what I did, to the extent of my interest level. Sorry if rambling on about it made it seem like that interest level rises above mild curiosity mixed with befuddlement.
I presume some of them read these discussions. At least Zhani Doko apparently does. They can answer if they feel like it, or others might provide different explanations. They can criticize each other’s answers, should it get that far.
Based on what I read here, communists took over the l.p. around 2010-12, and libertarians took it back over in 2022.
@GDP,
Based on the IPR report, 89 persons voted.
Chase Oliver – 42.70% (38)
Michael Rectenwald – 16.85% (15)
Michael ter Maat – 13.48% (12)
Joshua Smith – 13.48% (12)
Vivek Ramaswamy – 4.49% (4)
Mario Perales – 2.25% (2)
Robert Sansone – 2.25% (2)
Jacob Hornberger – 1.12% (1)
Lars Mapstead – 1.12% (1)
Art Olivier – 1.12% (1)
NOTA (None of the Above) – 1.12% (1)
The only alternative explanation is that all 11 candidates received the same integer multiple of votes (e.g. Hornberger, Mapstead, Olivier, NOTA received 113 votes, Perales and Sansone, …, Oliver 4294.
89 is more than the libertarians typically get at a state meeting in a state the size of Iowa to select presidential delegates, and this was a nonbinding vote, so they must have provided more than one location for people to vote.
Normally, the few people who care about picking their presidential delegates have to all go to the same location in the state at the same time to do that. That will almost certainly be the case again this year.
@DTL,
They were organized by county, but multiple counties met at a common location. It appears that they may have been grouped by highways. It was a bitter cold night so I suspect many people were not willing to travel 50 miles or more. They should really move the caucuses to another day of the week so they don’t conflict with BB games.
Don’t most people have heating in their cars? The distance traveled seems somewhat secondary as an issue on a very cold night, where most of the problem, such as it is, is in the short distances traversed between vehicles and buildings.