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Do you think a Libertarian will ever get elected as President of the USA?

Asked by Vicseay (30 points) May 17th, 2008
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Bob Barr was talking about running in 2008 as the Libertarian candidate for President. Are they for real?

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Marina's avatar

Not anytime soon for sure. But who can say farther out in the future how thing swill change?

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johnpowell's avatar

Nice typo.

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Marina's avatar

@johnpowell I didn’t do it on purpose, but it deserves to stand just as it is. Thanks for the catch.

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reed's avatar

As evidenced by the current presidential race, it takes an enormous amount of money to run for president. It is difficult for a Libertarian, or any third party candidate, to raise that kind of money. Ross Perot was the last person to have much success running outside our currently entrenched two party system, but he was a billionaire and put in a lot of his own money. If he wasn’t so loony, he would have stood a good chance at getting elected. I could certainly envision a wealthy, charismatic, third party candidate getting elected. Now whether it would be a Libertarian is another matter since they have a branding issue. It would most likely be an Independent.

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sarbee's avatar

in America we have a two party system, its basically impossible for a third party to win the electoral votes. The democratic party merged with the populist party so if the libertarian party were to merge with the republican party theoreticaly they could get elected… I don’t realistically see a party that extreme winning any elections

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