David Nolan at LP blog, October 3:
Two very informal, unscientific straw polls taken in the last week indicate that my campaign for U.S. Senate has the potential to take off in a big way if we can come up with significant funding. In the online survey taken by KTVK-3 one week ago, during and following the four-way televised debate, 53% of the participants indicated that they thought I won the debate.
An equally unscientfic poll taken at a Junior State of America conference in Tucson yesterday indicated that 30% of the participants (high school students) would vote for me if they had the opportunity. First place went to the Democrat, Rodney Glassman. One reason for my good showing was that I showed up to speak to the group, while nobody representing John McCain put in an appearance.
And while I do not expect to receive 53% of the votes in November – or even 30% – these polls are interesting because they show that Libertarians can be very competitive when they are given equal exposure to the voters.
NF, I’m hoping Darcy Richardson tries it in Florida.
New Federalist and Daniel Surman,
Good points.
Jeez Bob, lighten up! The fact that anybody actually acknowledges your fantasy should make you happy. Chill, dude!
I’d like to see someone tell this young woman, Alicia, that these people have lied to her all her life about who she is. She deserves to know & begin to find out her real heritage.
Your analogy of PLAS & jumper is ludicrous. PLAS would not be suicidal. No one in their rght mind would convince or trick someone into such a jump & would try such a jump. & the payoff-close victory in a defacto three way race, iis not mine to give. It is there to be had.Etc.
As far as Knapp is concerned, you seem to know a lot about something that only her & I know & even Phladelphia area people do not know because the press accounts were slanted, biased & controlled.
The LP is never goong to succeed electorally because it does not have then numbers -13% & nevewr will. Logically lbertarians should make the best by bewcoming a part of an nclusive progressive movement,whch could thereby succeed electorally. How many times does Nolan have to lose to get the message?
That you do not support Rand Paul is news to me. One would assume if you support Ron, you support Rand. What are your qualifcations to support Ron? Why bother to support him at all? His baggage as a counterrevolutionary is not worth his anti-war nationalistic position.
Why don’t you quit dogging me & help try PLAS? Instead of being so obstinate? You are misusing this forum by doing that. I’m not a troll. You are an obstacle.
I was actually in JSA while I was in high school. Great organization with a disproportionate number of libertarians. At the last year at our Winter Congress the Libertarian caucus was about 3X the amount of people they expected to show up.
Of course, everybody disagreed over what libertarianism actually was. The group ranged from pro-Fed and HCR liberaltarians to your Glenn Beck libertarians and everything in between. Only a couple actually knew the LP’s platform.
But the LP would do well to target JSA groups. The fact you have so many people who A) plan to be involved in politics in the future and B) are open to libertarianism seems like a really easy way to find potential support.
Who supports…The Pauls.
I don’t support Rand Paul, and my support of Ron Paul has always been qualified.
All this off topic blather aside, David Nolan makes a good point in the original article:
these polls are interesting because they show that Libertarians can be very competitive when they are given equal exposure to the voters.
There’s no magic bullet shortcut to success for the LP, but success is not fundamentally impossible.
So trying PLAS would be suicidal?
Actually, that wasn’t the point of the analogy. In the analogy, the jumper is convinced to do something really stupid which would be obvious to the vast majority of people has no chance of working because he is promised a really big payoff, which the promising party would never be able to deliver anyway.
My behavior towards Deborah Knapp was never inappropriate.
Yeah, right.
I wrote fan letters.
Uh huh. See @ 2.
So trying PLAS would be suicidal?
I don’t think so…
My behavior towards Deborah Knapp was never inappropriate. I wrote fan letters.If we can get an unredacted latent fingerprint report, I believe we would find the 2 sets of prints on my letters were mine & hers.
If there was any inappropriate behavior, it would be her allowing herself as a member of the press to be duped into allowing the FBI to use her against me for their political persecution purposes.Bonilla are the bological parents of their first chld.
I also think dna testing would show that neither Knapp nor Bonilla are the biological parents of their first child, allegedly born in Lankenau Hospital.
In the very least, if the candidates are going to lose, why not try some untried strategy?
Have you tried jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge wearing cement shoes? If you don’t sink, the bridge is yours!
Catchy tune, paulie.
Who supports counterrevolutionaries The Pauls.
Who mocks an untried strategy to try to win a close plurality.
In the very least, if the candidates are going to lose, why not try some untried strategy?
Who repeatedly incorrectly states I was convicted of stalking.
Losing elections is no joke.
Right back at you.
@4 Milnes
Shut up,David.
Just lose &
get it over with.
Go quietly.
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby… you are such a bad man!
New Milnes theme song…
Shut up, David.
Just lose & get t over with.