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• 1 kalipay // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:49 am

  Does anyone have any idea, or is there any way to have an idea about how many write-in votes there remain to count?

• 2 paulie cannoli // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:52 am

  There are several million more votes to be counted, not all of them write-ins.

  Baldwin may still break 200,000 and should definitely be good for the highest ever CP presidential raw total.

  Nader will probably go well over 700,000.

• 3 Nexus // Nov 12, 2008 at 9:28 am

  That is about 100,000 more votes than I figured McKinney would get.

• 4 paulie cannoli // Nov 12, 2008 at 11:06 am

  I was hoping she’d do better.

  I might have voted for her, had I voted.

• 5 José C // Nov 12, 2008 at 1:56 pm

  The vote total for Bob Barr is 506,497. The vote totals for Phillies, Paul, and Jay (The Three Amigos) is 22,716.

  95.70% of the vote for Barr.
  4.30% of the vote for The Three Amigos.

  Not even close . . .

• 6 paulie cannoli // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  Now how would it be close? Barr was on the ballot in 45 states with 95% of the country’s voters.

  Jay was on the ballot in three states, Paul in two (neither very big), Phillies in one small state.

  By the way, most of Paul’s and possibly most of Jay’s votes may well be write-in votes, which have not even been counted yet, so your percentages may not be quite as lopsided as you think. We’ll see. Paul beet barr about 7 to 1 in the only state where they were both on the ballot.

• 7 George Phillies // Nov 13, 2008 at 12:05 am

  Beware false comparisons of the Barr and Badnarik campaigns. A recent article by Dave Weigel at Reason includes the paragraph

  *”This is a real campaign,” says Stewart Flood, a South Carolina Libertarian Party executive who has taken a three-week unpaid vacation to help out. “There was no headquarters in 2004. It was Michael Badnarik in a car, driving from event to event. They did raise money, but they weren’t raising money. They did contact voters, but it wasn’t organized.”*

  These rumors are incorrect.

  In 2004 Badnarik did have a main office, in Texas. Campaign Treasurer Geoff Neale in addition to handling finances kept things running. If I recall correctly, Badnarik 2006 was at nearly the same location.

  Badnarik had a television advertising campaign that actually ran television advertisements.

  There was an intensive fundraising effort; some of you will remember the day the torch of the statue of liberty fundraising widget ignited. Even though the fundraising drive started in a serious way only after Mike got the nomination, Mike raised more money post-nomination than Browne 2000 did post-nomination.

  Badnarik had a volunteer campaign, with a national leadership and volunteer coordinators in most states. More than 500 volunteers who did work actively interacted with the program. Persons with a wide range of special skills were located and identified to senior staff.

  A systematic program distributed free lawn signs and bumper stickers to state coordinators and activists. The volunteer campaign implemented, within a month, a systematic program that found the contact data and put Badnarik electronic press releases and letters in the hands of most college newsletters in the United States, in addition to the MSM program.

  Of course, there were organizational efforts that Badnarik skipped. For example, unlike Barr, Badnarik did not spend $18,000 on limousine services.

  With respect to the more bizarre rumors above, note that there have not been hundreds of days since our National convention; the notion that I could have visited New Hampshire hundreds of times is bizarre. We did recently have a State Convention, electing a new LPMass State Committee, namely David Blau, Steve Greffenius, Art Torrey, Bob Underwood, Mary-Anne Wolf, and myself. Bob was our United States Senate candidate. In a serious three-way race, Bob got more than 18% of the vote in Marblehead, and 5-10% of the vote in most towns from Worcester (center of the state) west to the New York border.

• 8 paulie cannoli // Nov 13, 2008 at 12:19 am

  I think you put this on the wrong post?

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