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Old 08-31-2015, 05:23 PM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
you were referring to the other gfy poster being libertarian.



i;m also not finding anything on Libertarians switching political affiliation to the repub party to get elected, ~18% of congress is Libertarian.
Gary Johnson, Robbie's favorite libertarian was voted into office as New Mexico's Govenor as a Republican.. Ron Paul and Rand Paul both claimed to be libertarians but ran as Republicans.. I don't think there is a single libertarian in congress which is not elected as a Republican..

Also the demographics of libertarians has changed a lot in recent years, as it because the go to party for embarrassed Republicans after Obama was elected a second time..

Prior to this most "independents" leaned to the left and stats backed that up, due to there not being a "liberal" party. However after Obama's second win, Republicans had a mass exodus to become "independent" and their go to party was libertarian..
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