Sunday, November 16, 2014

VDARE - The Open Borders Libertarian Curse Cost At Least One Senate Seat - "Libertarian Robert Sarvis took 53,000 votes in the Old Dominion" - "Beltway Libertarians have long been the bane of patriots, promoting ludicrous and destructive ideas about Open Borders even as they ignore the statist consequences of their preferred policies."


The Open Borders Libertarian Curse Cost At Least One Senate Seat

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A Libertarian candidate in Virginia cost the Republicans a Senate seat and threw the election to Democrat Mark Warner. And this is only the beginning of what could be a long term trend of Libertarian spoilers as the GOP/GAP dependence on white voters inevitably increases.
Libertarian Robert Sarvis (pictured right, with family) took 53,000 votes in the Old Dominion, far greater than Republican Ed Gillespie losing margin of 16,700. [Republican Beasts Expectations but Concedes Virginia Senate Race, by Trip Gabriel, New York Times,November 7, 2014] That’s a significant 2.5%. [Gillespie stuns Warner with close finish in Virginia Senate race, by David Sherfinski,The Washington Times, Nov. 4, 2014]. As the Washington Post’s Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman gloated, “2014 is apparently the first time in Virginia that a protest candidate decided the outcome of a major election.” ...


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