The Aftermath & Mae West
While the final official vote counts are not all in yet, it’s still a bit of a disappointment for us Libertarians that our Presidential candidates did not fare as well as hoped in this zany election year. At the latest count though, the Johnson-Weld ticket pulled in 4,429,013 votes this time (3.29%). While drastically smaller than the 10% polling touted earlier in the year, still 4.4 million votes is nothing to sneeze at. While we know that some voters chose the Libertarian ticket because of how bad the major party candidates were and will probably vote major party the next time, hopefully a significant number will stick with the liberty movement and vote their conscience again in future elections. Meanwhile Johnson did pull