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October 21, 2004
The Libertarians Decide, 2004
Dan Drezner links to "Reason’s revealing presidential poll" of prominent libertarians. Reading through it I was surprised by the many of the answers so I threw them into excel to make this table. (NV=Not Voting, NS=Not Saying, Total of 47 Surveyed)
Comparing the 2004 numbers to 2000 the big losers look to be the Libertarian Party and Nader. Big winner is clearly Kerry and the Democrats. There is some room for interpretation here as when people would say they were still deciding between, say, Kerry and Badnarick, I'd give them each a half vote. If anyone is interested in looking at the excel sheet send me an email and I'll zip it over.
As usual P.J. O'Rourke was pretty funny:
P.J. O’RourkeO’Rourke is H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and author, most recently, of Peace Kills (Atlantic Monthly Press).
2004 vote: George W. Bush, because I don’t want Johnnie Cochran on the Supreme Court.
2000 vote: George W. Bush. (I always vote Republican because Republicans have fewer ideas. Although, in the case of George W., not fewer enough.)
Most embarrassing vote: A 1968 write-in for "Chairman Meow," my girlfriend’s cat. It seemed very funny at the time. As I mentioned, this was 1968.
Favorite president: Calvin Coolidge -- why say more?
Posted by Peter Mork at October 21, 2004 10:42 PM
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