CNN has the current tallies:
Obama
65,775,311
53%
McCain
57,669,961
46%
Nader
684,283
Barr
503,132
Baldwin
180,944
McKinney
148,207
Keyes
37,844
Paul
19,852
La Riva
7,465
Calero
7,197
Moore
6,563
None of these candidates
6,251
Duncan
3,703
Harris
2,616
Jay
2,346
Polachek
1,223
McEnulty
781
Wamboldt
770
Stevens
720
Amondson
639
Boss
604
Phillies
518
Weill
470
Allen
310
Lyttle
106
With votes still being tallied, IPR is watching out for the following benchmarks: Nader to top his 1996 total of 685,297, and then perhaps to top 700,000 votes.
Baldwin to top Howard Phillips’ 1996 total of 184,820, and then perhaps to top 200,000 votes.
Cynthia McKinney to top 150,000 votes.
This popular vote total is the second best the LP has received in the presidential race, and the fourth highest percentage (after Ed Clark in 1980, Harry Browne in 1996 and Ron Paul in 1988).
Ron Paul is a neo-confederate not a paleocon.
I would never join the anti-free speech Constitution Party!
We’ve already been doing that; they are talking about making a whole post about, say, Phillies passing the 500 vote mark, just to make fun of him.
We will, almost inevitably, report the vote totals of the 2-3 state candidates–the Socialists, Prohibitionists, Boston Tea Partiers, etc. Prolly all in one post.
The Greens, no, they’re just “the Democrats but more soâ€. The Constitution Party, though, could attract a number of Libertarians of both radical and disgruntled-Republican stripes if the Libs go the path of the Reform Party.
So, you could say the CP is like the Republicans, only more so.
If I am to choose between the two I’d go Green, easily.
11: The Greens, no, they’re just “the Democrats but more so”. The Constitution Party, though, could attract a number of Libertarians of both radical and disgruntled-Republican stripes if the Libs go the path of the Reform Party.
Many, possibly most, votes for Ron Paul and/or Charles Jay were write-in votes, and have not been reported yet.
I honestly don’t see the point of making these types of reports for candidates who were on in 1, 2 or 3 states. For that matter, we haven’t yet made any such reports for the various socialist, prohibition, etc. candidates. Maybe at some point, I don’t know.
As previously noted, Barr did 4th best in percentage terms, behind Clark 80, Browne 96, and Ron Paul 88. His percentage was almost exactly the average of the five previous races.
500,000+ votes. The Barr haters will not like this. Second best vote total behind Ed Clark.
I agree with George Dance. Where is the analysis on the vote totals for George Phillies, Ron Paul, and Charles Jay? Combined they do not come anywhere near 500,000+ votes.
In other news, the Nader/Gonazalez ticket just surpassed the Nader ’96 ticket’s numbers to become his second best run in terms of votes.
The best radical backlash is not being involved in politics.
If you choose not to be involved in politics, it doesn’t mean politicians will choose to leave you be. Involvement in partisan politics does not mean you think the system should exist, just an acknowledgment that it does exist.
The best radical backlash is not being involved in politics. The nature of electoral politics and the LP itself is very statist, so of course it is inviting for disgruntled Republicans. How radical is it to attempt to control a political party?
There’s a pretty good chance of a radical backlash starting to show results at the 2010 convention, though.
I predict the Green Party and the Constitution Party will eventually have more members than the LP. The LP made a huge mistake by nominating Barr.
Mr. Phillies isn’t even as libertarian as Barr. Doesn’t he support protectionism?
WTF? George Phillies just went over 500 votes, and no comments (much less no story)?
LOL
500? lol. He’s catching up to the BTP!
WTF? George Phillies just went over 500 votes, and no comments (much less no story)?
Barr was touting the party line, what was the problem? Ron Paul wasn’t even a “perfect” libertarian, didn’t he run as pro-life which angered pro-choice libertarians? Besides, Ron Paul is a paleocon.
This is very much a half-empty/half-full situation for the LP. Will the national party learn from it’s mistakes or will the 500,000 be considered as “proof” of a successful campaign?
I don’t think another 2,000 votes would have made the day for Barr. In any case, many of those were people who were very much opposed to Barr being the LP nominee, and would not have voted for him even if Jay had not run.
Yeah, but why desn’t the BTP just join the LP? We need some solidarity. Spliting them up just splits the votes up, makes it easy for MSM to continue marginalizing libertarians.
LP, CP, GP and Nader all improved from 2004, probably mostly because it was not so close this time.
Atleast we hit the 500k mark. This shows that the party improved since 2004.
Look at how much the BTP received LOL. Charles Jay is an opportunist, he reminds me of a watered down Wayne Allyn Root.