{"id":5467,"date":"2010-01-15T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarians-last-minute-swing-to-scott-brown-away-from-3rd-party-candidate\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T10:19:00","slug":"libertarians-last-minute-swing-to-scott-brown-away-from-3rd-party-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/libertarians-last-minute-swing-to-scott-brown-away-from-3rd-party-candidate.php","title":{"rendered":"Libertarians last minute swing to Scott Brown away from 3rd party candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One poll last week had the uniquely named Independent\/Libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy pulling as much as 5% in the Massachusetts Senate race.  But traditionally, 3rd party \"spoilers,\" lose support at the very end.  Witness the recent NJ Governor's race, where the much-touted 3rd party challenger, ended with a dissapointing 4%, much below original polling predictions of as much as 15%.  <\/p><p>Joe Kennedy, a polished, but somewhat mild-spoken Libertarian candidate running on the Independent line, was recently featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/15\/us\/politics\/15massachusetts.html\">NY Times article<\/a>. They called him the \"wild card\" in the race.  Reporter Michael Cooper followed his campaign, and only 12 showed up at a basement speech.  In the very latest poll, his support has subsided to just 3%.  Other polls have him at just 1%.<\/p><p>Now some well-known Libertarian Party backers are even backing away.  From Independent Political Report (top site for 3rd party politics):<\/p><p>Trent Hill, Co-Editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentpoliticalreport.com\/2010\/01\/knppster-scott-brown-is-the-measure-of-how-far-the-tea-party-movements-standards-have-fallen\/\">IPR<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Libertarians should be cheering on a Brown victory&ndash;not because Brown is any better, but because it will likely have the effect of stopping the healthcare bill (or at least slowing it dramatically).<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Gene Berkman, a prominent leftwing Libertarian, California LP member:<\/p><blockquote><p>I certainly hope that Joe Kennedy gets a big vote, and takes enough liberal votes to cause the Democrat to lose... he [Brown] might still oppose Obamacare...<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81bec_7828681836623105417-1972982515154902202?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One poll last week had the uniquely named Independent\/Libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy pulling as much as 5% in the Massachusetts Senate race. But traditionally, 3rd party \"spoilers,\" lose support at the very end. Witness the recent NJ Governor's race, where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/libertarians-last-minute-swing-to-scott-brown-away-from-3rd-party-candidate.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}