If every person who stayed home would vote Libertarian, we might actually win something.

CATO has documented the effect of the libertarian vote:

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6715

Of course the best way to implement a "balance of power" strategy is to vote for LP candidates. If the LP candidate's vote total is greater than the difference between the athoritarian parties' candidates, both will try woo back those libertarian voters next time.

Does Fox News think Libertarian voters will actually vote Democrat of stay home? Why would we do either when we have candidates we support?

I would like to think that if you are a registered libertarian, that you cast your vote as such every time. A major problem in the libertarian party is having "affiliate libertarians" who are registered members of the "republicrats". These are the closet libertarians who believe in the ideals of self ownership and personal responsiblilty but have not made the leap of faith to actually register and vote consistently as staunch libertarians.

It's too bad that Maryland has no Libertarian candidates this time. I had to vote against all the incumbents :P

I proudly voted for every Libertarian candidate that I could, which here in Georgia was quite a few. I was glad to see the percentages were up all across the board for our candidates. Good things are happening here in Georgia with our party.

I voted liberterian in Georgia for every candidate I could, and if there was no candidate, nobody got my vote. If they ran unopposed, the did not get my vote either. The only difference between democrats and republicans is republicans want lower taxes, and republicans reckognize the need to defend this country. Otherwise they are both big spending, government program advocates who are wasting my time and money.

I think what we need to do is work from the ground up. We stand a better chance of winning if we keep elections localized. Most people I come into contact with have no idea who we are( Most vote along party lines not names). We should be spending our time and money on the city, state House, and state Senate races and leave the national elections to the R & D for now until we have a solid base to stand on.

An examination of the Montana election shows that if the Libertarians had endorsed the republican candidate, he would have won handily.

Perhaps as does the NRA, in races where the LP has no candidate, the LP should negotiate an endorsement.

Now all the L factor needs is more candidates and a broader message.

America needs a party for fiscal conservatives and many would favor Libertarians in my opinion.

I was in the unfortunate situation of showing up to vote Libertarian and not having a single Libertarian in my district that I could vote for. I consequently just voted for one unopposed canidate since I didn't know hardly anyone on the ballot. Uggg. Its really frustrating.

I don't think it's enough to just vote along our party lines. We have to help elect the electable candidates whose views most closely resemble our own. Can't throw out the baby with the bathwater, and all that.

For instance, I couldn't give Olivier my vote because the race was too close to risk letting Angelides win. In that instance, I had to give the Governator the vote in order to protect California from a guy who's views are just this side of socialist.

What's important is not the name of the party, but the views of the candidate. We can't throw our states to the dogs in the name of promoting the party, we have to vote our views, vote with wisdom, pick our battles, and where we can't win it, we have to give our vote over to where it'll be most useful. Elect the electable.*

(*- of course if the "next best" candidate already has a ripping good lead, by all means, vote libertarian and swell our numbers!)

Now local elections are a different story. I think we really need to get more local candidates out there and vote for them. A lot of our reasons for turning libertarian usually start with laws made at the local level - affecting what we may do with our homes, our businesses, etc.

Local government should not be ignored. Let's embrace those local elections, and put our efforts behind getting the word about local candidates out there. Not only will that help us get more Libertarians in office, it'll send a message higher up the political ladder and get the other parties and especially the media, to take us more seriously.

Having libertarian local officials is also a great way to build up party awareness and support; town by town, district by district, state by state. The more local candidates we can get elected, the more awareness we'll have, which will help us in future, larger elections.

Hi, my name is Bob Johnson. I ran as a Libertarian for Congress in the 11th District in FL in 2004 against pro-war, pro-PATRIOT Democrat Jim Davis (who fortunately just lost his bid for Governor and is thus no longer a threat to the Republic). I ran as an anti-war Republican in the 3rd District in TX in 2006 and lost in their Primary to Sam 'nuke Syria and torture prisoners' Johnson. I was so disgusted that I moved to Illinois and hope eventually to stir up trouble here.

I just wanted to make sure that you realize that the LP Senate candidate in Missouri as well as the one in Montana helped flip the Senate from what would have been 49D 51R to 49R 51D. Your candidates' votes, if added to the Republican candidates' votes, would have enabled Talent and Burns to stay in. Check it for yourself and make sure that you tell as many people in the news media and within the LP and Republican Party structure as possible.

The only way we will go back to an isolationist foreign policy and get out of Iraq is if the Republican Party learns the hard way and are aware of WHY they lost. In the case of Burns and Talent, they lost ENTIRELY due to their support for the idiotic, insane, ignorant war in Iraq and due to the LP's continued courageous existence.

Once again, congratulations for literally making history.

I've been a practicing Libertarian since '99 and have been voting for alternative candidates for 14 years.

With no Libertarians running for office here in Florida's CD-15 (mid-East Coast), I had to vote for Max Linn for governor (Reform Party) and Dr. Bob Bowman for Congress (a Democrat who wanted to call for a new 9/11 investigation).

I'm rather irritated over the complete shutout of third party candidates and would like to talk with other Libertarians. Please write me. SniperDoc SniperDoc2006@yahoo.com

I didn't vote. Why not? No Libertarians to vote for in the whole state of Arkansas, where I live! There just didn't seem to be any point, if I couldn't make a vote on principle.

I believe it's my civic duty to cast a vote in every election, whether or not there's a Libertarian candidate. While I voted for the vast majority of Libertarian candidates on the ticket (in Silicon Valley, where we were blessed with a great number of Libertarians), in some major races I voted for sanity and fiscal responsibility which I judged to be more important. Ironically, that meant voting for Democrats.

I flipped from staunch republican and voted straight L in Michigan for the first time. I don't see myself ever going back.

I'm registered as a Libertarian in Maryland. I vote the party line if there is a candidate. Otherwise, I agree with Cindy and others that for the other races with no Libertarians running, we need to vote on the basis of the candidate's stand on the issues. There are very few who run on limited government, but there is usually the lesser of two evils to vote for.

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Well the real major problem is not the people it is really the media, they rarely mention Libertarians at all. For the next 2 years every Libertairian should call the radio shows. Hannity and so forth. Have people who are thinking of running to call the radio shows as well.

Actually also act a little patrotic and don't say the US can't do something but use the points of Liberty and say we should allow other countries follow there own path.

We did win the war in Iraq we are just losing the peace, read your history better and you would find out it took us a while to win the peace after WWII in both Japan and Germany.

Now I don't see any one calling for withdraw of all soldiers on foriegn soil. We have troops in other nations. Including Yugoslavia which was promised to be withdrew in 2000 by the way it is 2006. We have troops in Germany what the Soviet Union is still around. Also in Britian what the hell I thought the war of 1812 is over. Also in Japan and Korea those wars are over. I don't care if North Korea might have a nuke, by the way thanks to the democrats(Bill Clinton)

Actually the only reason why I am still semi active in the Libertarian party is there stand on size of government and other freedoms. I lost a lot of interest after they approved of the demostrations in NYC with the Republican party and said all actions are OK, including vile spitting(which I was spit on waiting for my express bus and grand stupidity like the US should withdraw from North America. If anyone could explain that logic(real logic not made up) I will start my donations again but I doubt that.

Hannity berates anybody who doesn't toe the line when it comes to his neocon views. And, he doesn't let anybody give full answers to his questions, which he asks in rapid-fire succession. According to that piece of trash, anybody who doesn't hold neocon views is a "leftist".

Hannity had the gall, today, to say how libertarian his views are. I almost drove my car off a bridge when I heard that.

Repubs just don't get it do they?
Instead of appealing to the conservative in the Libertarian party they alienate themselves, with name calling and whining.
Medved, keep on whinning cause were growing. Were coming to give you more rights , more of your own money, and more of your God-given freedoms.
Seeing how both main parties have abandon liberty and constitutional rule of law, where else do these "medved-deadheads" think us conservative voters are going to go.