October, 2006

Libertarians Still Wandering the Wilderness

by Nick Gillespie

October 18th, 2006

Harold Meyerson is right, I think, that many, perhaps most, libertarians are put off by the seeming, sometimes seething, intolerance at work in today’s Southern-dominated GOP. With every gay-bashing innuendo that a Republican lobs, they surely lose more libertarian votes. For the latest instance of this (and evidence that it’s not just white, Southern Republicans [...]

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Best of the Blogs: Crashing the Democratic Gates

Logan Ferree of the Freedom Democrats blogs says, “I don’t believe that libertarians should just sit around and wait for the Democratic Party to make the first move. We live in a democracy, at least it still pretends to be one, and participation in the political parties is open to all. It is time to crash the Democratic gates.” Ferree sets out a plan. . . .

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Southern Conservatism, Libertarian Estrangement

by Harold Meyerson

October 17th, 2006

The Davids, Boaz and Kirby, have produced an important work of political scholarship in their assessment of the libertarian vote in American politics. For my part, I’d like to look at the considerable shift towards the Democrats that they document among libertarian voters between 2000 and 2004, which exists at the presidential (19 points), congressional [...]

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The Libertarian Vote

Speaking of the libertarian vote, Cato Institute executive vice president David Boaz with David Kirby, executive director of the America’s Future Foundation, have just published a new Cato study exploring just that:
We find 9 to 13 percent libertarians in the Gallup surveys, 14 percent in the Pew Research Center Typology Survey, and 13 percent [...]

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