Looking at the trends, I'd say we made some losses in some areas and some gains in others, but our base is consistant.
And that IMHO is a problem. Our base needs to be growing, not barely hanging on to even.
Maybe I misunderstood the $1,000,000 - 1,000,000 votes campaign. Failure to reach the 1,000,000 vote mark is a complete disgrace. Everyone in the Badnarik campaign and everyone at the national LP needs to resign and be forbidden from ever holding any kind of party office again. They should be held up to ridicule. We cannot continue to have an electoral catastrophe after electoral catastrophe. Incompetence like this can no longer be tolerated.
I think with this election it highlights the need for us to run first in local races. Putting a lot of time and money into a guaranteed looser is not the way to go. Looking at Virginia, Badnarik got 11056 votes in the entire state. The LP's nominee for Arlington County School Board (
Shaun Whelden) got 11169 votes in a county wide race. Someone running a local county race manages to get more than 100 votes than Badnarik running state wide. Clearly we need to rethink our strategy.
