Libertarian National Convention thread

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I'm surprised to see Perry above McAfee in the straw poll.

If he is/was in the Free State Project movement, that would make sense. 

Perry really hasn't done anything besides post on the Internet. I'm surprised he's even been accepted as a legitimate candidate, let alone become one of Johnson's leading challengers.

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I think Johnson needs to hit 50% of the delegates to win, so I can see perry and McAfee supporters giving there support to Petersen to stop johnson

Why would the most extreme libertarian candidates support somebody who's not even a libertarian?

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And to think that I thought McAfee would easily get second.

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New Mexico isn't a purple state.

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Seriously. Now is not the time for ideological purity. Quite a lot of Libertarian ideas are already more or less unacceptable to the public in practice, if not in theory as well. If they ever want to have a chance at becoming real players even at the state level, they need to strike a compromise between Libertarian principles and concerns of electability. Or, they can be as pure as they wish and win zero elections. I'm sure there are a lot of smart people there - How can they not understand this?

You're nothing without principles. It's not worth sacrificing them to win elections. I don't think you'd necessarily need to sacrifice them to win elections.

You shouldn't be talking about principles when your political matrix scores are at (0, -6) and you're supporting Trump.

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I feel like DWPerry was that one edgy kid in school who'd always throw paper ninja stars from the back of the classroom.

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Like I said, the Libertarian Party needs to worry most about electability at this point. Then, once they become more reputable, that's when they can nominate the DWPERRY types.

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First ballot over/under:

Johnson: 30.5%
Petersen: 14.5%
Perry: 14.5%
McAfee: 13.5%
Feldman: 12.5%
McCormick: 6.5%
Shannon: 3.5%
Supreme: 2.5%

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In the last few minutes alone, people have whined about NOTA not being printed on the ballot by mistake, somebody screaming about how the Ohio delegation hijacked a truck to block the Michigan delegation, somebody playing a harmonica, and somebody asking whether they have to use the white notecards because '[they] like [theirs] better'.

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Harmonica guy is talking about how the Libertarians need a theme song now.

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DARRYL W. PERRY WINS NEW HAMPSHIRE

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Utah delegate just voted for the RON PAUL R[EVOL]UTION

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FWIW, I don't think there was an OR delegation. I know that I didn't miss it.

Yeah, apparently there's some type of feud within the state party.

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FWIW, McAfee endorsed Weiss and DWPERRY endorsed Coley. Sharpe is the de facto 'compromise pick'.

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Feldman stuttered through his whole speech and acted more like he was anti-Weld than pro-Weld. I'm not sure what he was doing.

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Was it somebody relevant or just some random LNC-goer?

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For those who missed... it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d45x4OpMoow

You can pinpoint the exact moment when the crowd turns on him.