Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Libertarian Party doubling in size before our eyes - National Independent | Examiner.com

Libertarian Party doubling in size before our eyes - National Independent | Examiner.com - Mark Wachtler::

January 14, 2013 -  "Libertarian Party Executive Director Carla Howell is still smiling these days. And she has plenty of reason to. The Party tracks the number of citizens who contact the LP each year to get more information about possibly running for elective office on the Libertarian ticket. Since the November election, they’ve received 370 candidate inquiries. According to Howell, that’s more than double the number the party received in either 2008 or 2010. Added to the hundreds of party members that are recurring candidates every election, and it creates quite a slate of potential elected officials.

Considering the Libertarian Party ran 580 candidates nationwide last year, that forecasts to over 1,100 Libertarian Party candidates on the General Election ballot in 2014, possibly more. For the record, out of those 580 Libertarian candidates in 2012, 7 received over 1 million votes each. That’s not bad if you remember that the Republicans and Democrats outspent the Libertarian Party $666 to $1 in the last election cycle - $2 billion to $3 million."

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