Greg Kaza has made an early compilation of the minor party vote for U.S. House in this week’s election. He finds that the Libertarian Party nominees for U.S. House have polled, together, more than 1,000,000 votes. Other years in which the party has broken the 1,000,000 mark have been 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2008. The only other non-major party that has ever done that was the Progressive Party of 1912-1916.
Of course, as the nation’s population grows, the significance of that benchmark becomes less meaningful. A more meaningful measure is percentage of the vote for U.S. House going to any particular party. In 2010, the Libertarian share of the vote for U.S. House is in excess of 1% of the total vote for that office, a benchmark that no other minor party since World War II has achieved, except for the Progressive Party formed by Henry Wallace in 1948, which polled 1.9% of the U.S. House vote in 1948.
P.R. for ALL legislative bodies.
— to END the ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders in the U.S.A.
Lots of minority rule party hack New Age Elephants — who WILL be just as crazy evil as the defeated New Age Donkeys.
And yet for all those votes Libertarians are still denied the basic human right of representation in government.
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