What percent will Gary Johnson get Nationwide?

[LiberalJunkie]

What do you think?

[Stranger in a strange land]

1-1.5%. He'll do better than the Libertarian Party usually does, but not by enough to affect the outcome.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

0.5% - 1.0%  The libertarian party has only done better than 1% once and this is not the year, not is Johnson the Candidate who can duplicate that feat.

[Vosem]

0.5% - 1.0%  The libertarian party has only done better than 1% once and this is not the year, not is Johnson the Candidate who can duplicate that feat.

Johnson is a good candidate and this seems to be a year where third parties could overperform...

1-1.5%. God, why didn't he run for the Senate?

[NVGonzalez]

1-1.5%. He'll do better than the Libertarian Party usually does, but not by enough to affect the outcome.

[Maxwell]

2-2.5% on a good day. He just got 5.3% in a recent poll, but I doubt he'll get that.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

0.5% - 1.0%  The libertarian party has only done better than 1% once and this is not the year, nor is Johnson the Candidate who can duplicate that feat.

Johnson is a good candidate and this seems to be a year where third parties could overperform...

1-1.5%. God, why didn't he run for the Senate?

Exceeding 1.0% would require Johnson to do more than twice as well as any Libertarian candidate has done since 1980 when Clark/Koch hit 1.06%.  It's just not gonna happen folks, not unless Romney or Obama implodes so that people don't mind casting a wasted ballot.

[they don't love you like i love you]

He won't even get double what Barr got, so 0.5%-1%.

[Simfan34]

Too much.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

0.5% - 1.0%  The libertarian party has only done better than 1% once and this is not the year, not is Johnson the Candidate who can duplicate that feat.

Johnson is a good candidate and this seems to be a year where third parties could overperform...

Johnson is not that boring as Tim Pawlenty, but he's hardly interesting. What's so special about him? Being a Governor of New Mexico like 200 years ago?

[Donerail]

Too much.

Not enough.

[Maxwell]

Not enough.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

0.5% - 1.0%  The libertarian party has only done better than 1% once and this is not the year, not is Johnson the Candidate who can duplicate that feat.

Johnson is a good candidate and this seems to be a year where third parties could overperform...

Johnson is not that boring as Tim Pawlenty, but he's hardly interesting. What's so special about him? Being a Governor of New Mexico like 200 years ago?

He climbed Mount Everast, mountain bikes, built his own home from scratch, is pro pot, and has Willie Nelsons endorsement. Next to Jesse Ventura, he is the least boring Governor of the few years...and I must admit, Tim Pawlenty is an amazing speaker in person, just bad on TV.

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2012/07/gary-johnson-polling-at-5-3-nationwide/

[WhyteRain]

I would have to know how many ballots he's on and whether Romney can still be stopped at the GOP convention.

When Clark got 1.06% in 1980, the GOP had nominated the most Libertarian-sounding -- by far -- candidate of a major party in my lifetime.  That doesn't appear likely this year.

[Oakvale]

0.5% - 1.0%  The libertarian party has only done better than 1% once and this is not the year, not is Johnson the Candidate who can duplicate that feat.

^ Yeah, this. No reason to expect Johnson do any better than the usual Libertarian candidates.

[Maxwell]

I would have to know how many ballots he's on and whether Romney can still be stopped at the GOP convention.

When Clark got 1.06% in 1980, the GOP had nominated the most Libertarian-sounding -- by far -- candidate of a major party in my lifetime.  That doesn't appear likely this year.

Ronald Reagan is pretty far away from a libertarian, but he liked to throw the word around, indeed.