In an exclusive 10TV Capitol Square interview, Ohio Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl said he's prepared to be a major factor in the 2014 Election.

"I intend to be more than a spoiler," said Earl. "I think we have a shot at winning. Is it a good one? No, but we have a shot because people are discouraged and disgruntled."

The Ohio Republican Party wasted no time on Friday pointing out Earl supports positions that social conservatives have long scorned.

"He is pro-abortion, pro-drug legalization and pro-gay marriage," said Ohio Republican Party spokesman Chris Schimpf. "He will likely wind up taking more votes from FitzGerald than anyone else."

But several Ohio tea party leaders have already announced they will not support Kasichs reelection bid next year because of his support of Medicaid expansion. And Earl says he expects the tea party to be part of his coalition.

Political analysts have been busy dissecting the election returns from Virginia last Tuesday where the Libertarian candidate for governor Robert Sarvis received 7 percent of the vote.

Sarvis received 145,560 votes while the Republican candidate, Ken Cuccinelli, lost by roughly 55,000 votes to Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

What I take from that is that there is a real opportunity at the ballot box for minor parties, particularly the Libertarian Party, said Earl. A message of liberty and a smaller government we can get our arms around is important to people.

While the Libertarian anti-government philosophy more closely aligns with Republicans - Earl himself is a former state GOP lawmaker - he believes his appeal will attract some voters on the left.

"Our appeal as a Party has been to the fiscal sanity of the right and the more liberal attitude on the personal issues on the left," said Earl. "Certainly Kasichs base is upset with him. But at this point in time Mr. FitzGerald does not have the name recognition. I'm sure his Party and base will stick with him, but how many of those people are going to be frustrated by what's happening nationally and stay home?"

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Fox News contributor Scott Brown said Wednesday that the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, lost the election because Democrats planted a fake libertarian opponent to skim off votes from the Republican.

The former Republican senator from Massachusetts told Fox & Friendshost Brian Kilmeade that he wouldnt be surprised if Democrats werent somehow connected to libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis campaign.

Obamacare does matter but the Democrats have a pretty good gameplan where they will put in a third party libertarian, Brown said.

I wouldnt be surprised if theres a connection there. That libertarian, had he not been there, I think the election would have gone to Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli brought about his base, he talked about the things that mattered. Because remember, he was the first attorney general to actually file [a lawsuit against] Obamacare.

He also claimed that media unfairly branded the newly elected governor, Terry McAuliffe, as a moderate Democrat.

Theres nothing moderate about him, Brown said.

Brown isnt the only one looking for a connected between Dems and Sarvis.

TheBlaze reported last night that Sarvis largest contributions came from the Libertarian Booster political action committee. The major benefactor for Libertarian Booster PAC is Texas software billionaire Joe Leimandt, who is reportedly a top bundler for President Barack Obama.

Bundlers organize and collect campaign contributions for candidates.

According to NPRs Peter Overby, Sometimes bundlers are called raisers, as in fundraisers. That distinguishes them from writers of checks.

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Richmond, Virginia (CNN) - Hours before the polls open in Virginia, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli enlisted Libertarian hero and former Texas Congressman Ron Paul to speak at a campaign rally in Richmond in a final effort to unite the base.

Supporters who turned out for the late evening event at the Richmond Convention Center embraced a message that focused on Libertarian themes.

"I've done very little travelling and campaigning this time around, but this one I came to because I know your candidate is a defender of liberty," Ron Paul said to a cheering crowd.

The Libertarians are precisely the voters the Republican candidate needs to sway for a win Tuesday. That's because third party candidate, Liibertarian Robert Sarvis, is polling at eight percent, according a Quinnipiac poll released Monday.

Cuccinelli, the Virginia attorney general, trails former Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe by six points, according to the same Quinnipiac poll.

The Cuccinelli camp hopes the Paul endorsement will bring those splintered Libertarian voters back into the GOP fold.

McAuliffe's final campaign push included star power appearances Monday from Vice President Joe Biden. President Obama , former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also stumped for him in the final weeks.

The Cuccinelli campaign has framed the election as a referendum on Obamacare and hopes to capitalize on the problem-plagued rollout.

Paul hit that message hard tonight. "This Obamacare is a monster," he said He described Obamacare taxes as "evil", claiming "they are going to create a class warfare."

As Virginia's attorney general, Cuccinelli sued the Obama administration over the Affordable Care Act. A case that was later dismissed.

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Posted on: 11:43 pm, November 4, 2013, by Alix Bryan, updated on: 12:10am, November 5, 2013

RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR)Libertarian Robert Sarvis, the third party candidate on the Virginia ballot for governor, is headed towards a possibly historic day, regardless of a victory at the polls.

Hes already shaken up the race, had a double-digit showing at the polls, been endorsed and mentioned by newspapersall signs that indicate37-year-old Sarvis will have one of the better Libertarian party showings, not just in the state but in the nation.

Smart Politics, a political news site out of Minnesota, took a look at more than 200 Libertarian candidates dating back to the 1970s and concluded Sarvis will have had one of the top three strongest candidacies in party history,after all the votes are tallied.

In 2002,Ed Thompson received 10.5% of the vote in his Wisconsin gubernatorial run or the same office. That resulted in a seat on the state elections board for the Libertarian Party.

According to Smart Politics, the only other Libertarian to reach five percent in a gubernatorial race was Sam Steiger, Arizona, 1982.

While its incredibly likely that Sarvis wont be the next governor of Virginia, if he gets the votes that have been pledged to him so far, he could secure the 10 percent needed to gain ballot access for state and local offices (but not federal races) through 2021, according to the State Board of Elections.

It just remains to be seen if people will follow through behind the voting curtain.

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Attorneys for the state of Tennessee had argued in a Nashville federal court that third-party candidates in Tennessee should be able to be listed under a heading including the names of their parties. And they lost in their defense of a state law permitting the listing.

So when they returned to the same courtroom in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee last week, before the same judge, their argument against a similar ballot heading for Memphian Jim Tomasik was that their previous case is still on appeal.

U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes ordered that Tomasik be listed in the special general election for Tennessee House District 91 under a Libertarian Party heading.

His ruling came Thursday, Oct. 31, the day before the Nov. 1 opening of early voting in the race for the Memphis district seat at Shelby County Election Commission offices at 157 Poplar Ave.

Friday was also the first day of early voting in the citywide referendum on a half-percent sales tax hike.

Tomasik filed his qualifying petition for the state House seat as a Libertarian but was listed as an independent by the Shelby County Election Commission, which was acting on instructions from state election officials.

Tomasik is chairman of the Tennessee Libertarian Party and filed suit in Nashville federal court against the local election commission and state election officials, seeking an injunction that would list him on the ballot under a Libertarian Party heading.

Tomasik faces Democratic primary winner Raumesh Akbari in the general election. No Republican candidates filed for the seat.

Tennessee Deputy Attorney General Janet M. Kleinfelter argued in the states response to the lawsuit that the law that would permit such a listing of candidates was declared unconstitutional in the same federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

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The Libertarian Party of Colorado filed a lawsuit Friday challenging residency provisions in the state's new election law, but the case won't stop Tuesday's election.

"Residency issues are only the tip of the iceberg," state Libertarian Party Chairman Jeff Orrok said in a statement.

Among the complaints, the lawsuit states that while the new law allows people to register to vote all the way to and including Election Day in state races, residency requirements in various in elections involving municipal elections, local school districts, special districts and other local races range from 20 to 30 days.

By disregarding the residency requirements in some races, "several county clerks across the state are improperly disregarding or misinterpreting those requirements and allowing ineligible voters to register or change registration address and cast ballots in political subdivision elections with longer residency requirements," the lawsuit states.

If successful, the lawsuit could force some races to be voted on again if the affected ballots exceed the margins of victory in those races, the party stated.

Orrok said the conflicts could cause election law violations and "partially disenfranchised voters throughout the state." He said the new law also could create problems for ballot secrecy and voter privacy, arguments voiced by Republicans when the measure was before the Legislature in the spring.

The law was passed by Democrats at the urging of the Colorado County Clerks Association primarily to mail ballots to every voter in every election, which supporters said would make elections less costly, make voting more convenient and make registration deadlines less confusing.

In addition to the state Libertarian Party, plaintiffs include Republicans Lu Ann Busse of Larkspur and Victor Head, founder of Pueblo Freedom & Rights.

Former state Sen. Shawn Mitchell of Broomfield, a Republican, is the lawyer for the plaintiffs.

The lawsuit was filed in Denver District Court and names Secretary of State Scott Gessler and the election clerks in Pueblo, El Paso, Douglas and Arapahoe counties as defendants to represent all county clerks in Colorado.

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Americans who identify with the Tea Party are more likely to identify with the Christian Right than to hold views consistent with a libertarian philosophy, according to a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute.

Of the 10 percent of those surveyed who identified themselves as part of the Tea Party, about half, 52 percent, also identified with the Christian Right. Christian Right identifiers comprised 18 percent of the sample.

PRRI constructed a libertarian-communalist scale based upon nine questions dealing with national security and international intervention, economic policy, and personal liberty (such as gun control, access to pornography and marijuana legalization). Using this scale, the report found that seven percent of the sample was consistently libertarian and 15 percent leaned libertarian.

The report uses the libertarian scale to identify libertarians because those who self-identify as libertarian were not consistently libertarian in their views.

Of the seven percent who were classified as consistently libertarian, 39 percent identified with the Tea Party. Twenty-six percent of those who identified with the Tea Party were classified as libertarian. And, 22 percent of libertarians identified with the Christian Right.

Together, these data suggest the Tea Party has more ties to the Christian Right than libertarianism, but there is also a large portion of the Tea Party that neither identifies with the Christian Right nor holds consistent libertarian views.

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LITTLE ROCK The Libertarian Party of Arkansas was certified for the 2014 ballot by the secretary of states office Friday.

The party last month turned in more than 16,000 signatures in an effort to qualify for the ballot. The party needed 10,000 verified signatures to secure ballot access and party officials were notified Friday that they had met the threshold.

While we are excited about the prospect of running candidates in 2014, I must say, this has been an exhausting process, said Jessica Paxton, the partys chairwoman.

Frank Gilbert, constable of DeKalb Township in Grant County and former mayor of Tull, announced last month he will seek the Libertarian Partys nomination for governor.

Gilbert is the only member of the Libertarian Party currently holding elected office in Arkansas. He also has served as Grant County coroner and president of the Bauxite Education Association.

Former Congressman Mike Ross is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Republican candidates are former Congressman and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson, state Rep. Debra Hobbs and businessman Curtis Coleman.

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LITTLE ROCK The Libertarian Party of Arkansas was certified for the 2014 ballot by the secretary of states office Friday.

The party last month turned in more than 16,000 signatures in an effort to qualify for the ballot. The party needed 10,000 verified signatures to secure ballot access and party officials were notified Friday that they had met the threshold.

While we are excited about the prospect of running candidates in 2014, I must say, this has been an exhausting process, said Jessica Paxton, the partys chairwoman.

Frank Gilbert, constable of DeKalb Township in Grant County and former mayor of Tull, announced last month he will seek the Libertarian Partys nomination for governor.

Gilbert is the only member of the Libertarian Party currently holding elected office in Arkansas. He also has served as Grant County coroner and president of the Bauxite Education Association.

Former Congressman Mike Ross is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Republican candidates are former Congressman and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson, state Rep. Debra Hobbs and businessman Curtis Coleman.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (LPAR) - The Libertarian Party of Arkansas (LPAR) is officially a recognized political party for the second time in history and will now be able to run candidates for office in 2014.

Last month, the party submitted signatures to the Secretary of State's office in order to fulfill the requirement of collecting at least 10,000 valid signatures from registered voters in the state. According to Martha Adcock at the Secretary of State's office, more than 12,000 of the 16,000 submitted signatures were verified as signatures of registered AR voters.

During the 2012 general election, more than 100,000 votes were cast for Libertarian candidates in AR. However, the Libertarian Party was required to re-petition the state after Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate, did not receive three percent of the vote in 2012.

Dozens of potential candidates have already come forward, hoping to receive the party's nomination to run for office in 2012. Frank Gilbert of Tull, Glen Schwarz of Little Rock and Shawn Hipskind of Alexander have all announced that they plan to seek the party's nomination for Governor.

The LPAR will nominate candidates at their convention, scheduled for February 21-23 in Little Rock.

"While we are excited about the prospect of running candidates in 2014, I must say, this has been an exhausting process," said Jessica Paxton, LPAR Chairman. "The ballot access laws in our great state were written by Democrats and Republicans who have a vested interest in imposing crippling requirements on anyone who dares to challenge them." Libertarians advocate lower taxes, more personal freedom and less government intervention.

"A major issue here is that hundreds of thousands of voters cast their ballot for third party and independent candidates every two years here in Arkansas," said Paxton. "And the powers that be are trying to silence that dissenting voice by requiring this petition process that costs tens of thousands of dollars, takes thousands of man-hours and then, by the time we have access to the ballot, our resources have been exhausted before campaigning even begins."

The LPAR is now seeking candidates to run for office in 2014. "Whether running for city council or congress, we want liberty-loving Arkansans to take advantage of our efforts and represent true freedom on the ballot," says Debbie Standiford, Chairman of the Pulaski County Libertarian Party.

If the Libertarian Gubernatorial nominee earns three percent of the vote in the 2014 election, the party will automatically retain ballot access for 2016. If less than three percent is earned, the party will have to again submit 10,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's office for verification, a process that cost the LPAR almost $40,000.

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