Posted at: 10\/09\/2012 6:43 PM By: Stuart Dyson, Eyewitness News 4 <\/p>\n
Gary Johnson brought his long-shot Libertarian campaign for president to New Mexico Tuesday, with a rally at the University of New Mexico Tuesday evening and a fundraiser high in the Sandia Mountains foothills earlier in the day. <\/p>\n
It was barbecue and bucks at the County Line restaurant on Tramway, a fundraising luncheon for the former two term New Mexico governor. <\/p>\n
Johnson, still steaming over his exclusion from the first Obama-Romney debate, is sticking with his message: cut federal spending, bring the troops home, legalize marijuana and gay marriage - live free. <\/p>\n
\"It's a message that resonates all across the country,\" Johnson said. \"There are no weak spots anywhere. There's solid support and it's growing. I'm here to tell you, it's absolutely growing!\" <\/p>\n
It isn't a big bucks campaign, but the contributions keep rolling in from Americans who can't find meaning with the Republicans or Democrats. And don't try the argument that a vote for Johnson is a wasted vote. <\/p>\n
\"A wasted vote is voting for somebody you don't believe in,\" Johnson said. \"That's a wasted vote. You vote for the person you believe in and that's how you change things in this country. if everybody wastes their vote on me - guess what? - I'm the next President of the United States!\" <\/p>\n
Johnson is polling at about 6 percent right now, when the pollsters bother to include him. Still, that's way ahead of where other Libertarians that have been in other races for the presidency. <\/p>\n
Johnson's hometown visit will not last long. He is due to fly out of Albuquerque Wednesday, heading for Virginia and Washington D.C. to continue his tour of American college campuses. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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