89Hen wrote:
There is exactly 0.00% chance he can carry a state. So what is respectable?
Ross Perot got 18.9% in 1992 and 8.4% in 1996 and that did absolutely nothing to the two party system.
Entirely different. Ross Perot was an independent and not affiliated with any party.
If Gary Johnson gets 5% of the vote, it will open up public funding the Libertarian Party in 2020. That's huge. Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party have only raised a few million dollars. If he gets 5% - they will have 3 or 4 times as much money next cycle. It won't make them competitive in 2020. But, it will make them more competitive than they currently are. Baby steps.
And, yes. The hypocrisy of the Libertarian Party being primarily funded through federal tax dollars would be huge... but, that doesn't bother me as I'm not exactly a strident libertarian.