Talk Elections

I think he should focus on New Hampshire, Nevada and the open prmary in SC.

With victories here, he can build momentum to carry himself to the nomination.

For every other Republican candidate to die.

Please be more mature.

Please don't start threads about joke candidates.

And who do you support?

::)

yeah, leave segway alone.

What, like Giuliani or Huckabee?

Huckabee is a joke, but not a joke candidate.

Scary, huh?

Gone silent now I see, Rowan.

Huck is a joke all around. He will never win the presidency.

Huck can win the republicant primaries

No.

Silent? No, I just don't monitor the threads every second.

As for who I support, I don't support anyone at this moment considering there are no announced candidates.

lol

cop-out

Johnson would crush Huckabee

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Mike Huckabee
Gary Johnson

Johnson would win UT and Wy as well.

No.

Yes.

I don't know, they're both closed, and Wyoming has a caucus, but you'd probably know how things are out there better than I would.

I love how people here refuse to accept that the majority of the Republican Party now would never accept a candidate like Gary Johnson. Keep dreaming.

Romney won WY and Huckabee made a lot of snide remarks toward Mormons. As long as Gary Johnson doesn't suddenly embrace gay marriage and abortions, he should win pretty comfortably. Remember, UT elected a Governor that supports civil unions, so they are open to that issue to an extent.

True, true.

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Mike Huckabee
Gary Johnson

I don't get why you make an issue out of closed versus open primaries. You seem to think Huckabee would win UT just because they have a closed primary (not true, for the record), and Johnson would win SC just because of the open primary. BTW, if we were to apply that to every state, we would have....

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Blue states have cacuses or closed primaries.
Green states are all others.

By not being Gary Johnson?

Uh, no, that's not the only criterion I used, which is obviously why my map doesn't look like that. ::)

I don't get why you're using that as a criterion at all. ::)

Becaue it is a major factor in determining the electorte?

::)

OMG you are such an establishment hack!

Because one would have to be delusional to think that open or closed status has no impact on primary results.

This is true.

"In the 2008 election campaign, Johnson endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican presidential nomination."

That's all you pretty much need to know about this guy.

Again Rowan, who do you support?

Why does Rowan have to support anybody, particularly since there are exactly zero announced candidates as yet?  Why does anybody, in fact?

Not this guy.

Well, if it comes down to Johnson and Huckabee (I have a late primary :() I'll vote for a libertarian first time out...

I am pretty sure Johnson and Huckabee won't be the only two running in 2012 for the GOP nomination. Huckabee probably won't seeing that he is enjoying himself on cable news. Johnson btw is a much stronger candidate than Paul, and might make some primary voters give him some consideration in deciding who to vote for. If I were him, I would pour tons of money in New Hampshire, slam Obama's support of wasteful spending, talk about lower taxes, and possibly pull off a win. I would look at Maine, Nevada, and Wyoming as well, and then ride into Super Tuesday with momentum to win in other states.

I can't comment about what states would constitute Johnson's best path.  But I think his only shot at serious consideration would be to do the following...

1.  Emphasize his record as Governor of New Mexico.
2.  Present himself as the lone moderate in a field of Christo-Fascists.

Even so, I can't see him winning the nomination or even finishing in the top five.  Former governors long removed from their executive posts tend not to fare well.  Gilmore and Tommy Thompson were utter jokes. Keating read the tea leaves and decided not to even try.  Ditto, Terry Branstad.

I just can't see it. 

Of course, we have to remember that not everyone who runs for a party's nomination is thinking solely about winning.  Lesser candidates can be angling for VP nominations or cabinet posts.

Sad but true. Even though he's the Republican candidate I'd be most likely to vote for.

I really can't see Gary Johnson appointed to Cabinet by a President Romney (or Huckabee, I suppose).

He may want the second slot on the ticket, though.

he has no chance. i would vote for him if he did. really, the political climate of the day is saddening.

Yeah, but things could change over the next few years to the point where people start demanding real change after 12 years of BushBama.

Welcome to the forum, by the way. :)

thank you.

well bush and obama are pretty much the same. what happened to withdrawing the troops? adding more? that isn't change that i believed in (or didn't believe in).

the corporate internationalists have long passed their expiration date, yet they won't go away.

The sad thing is, there are still people who believe there was and is a difference between corporate puppets Bush and Obama.

thats because they want to believe that. its due to their partisanship and nothing else. they are so caught up in democrat vs. republican that they are blinded to the fact that it doesn't make a difference.

The Democratic wing of the Republican party is somewhat preferable to the Republican wing.

     It's also greatly beneficial to the corporations that people think that the two-party system offers them a genuine choice. If they realized it didn't, the corporations would be in a bind.

Unless there is a dramatic shift in the next couple of years (not impossible but not likely), then these three states are his best chance.

The sad thing is...I am slowly starting to see your point.  <sigh>   I voted for a liberal.  I got Reagan's 8th term.  So far, anyway...