LIbertarian Convention

by Jerome Armstrong, Sun May 30, 2004 at 07:16:46 AM EDT

  • Third & Final Ballot totals: The Nolan endorsement worked, Badnarik, who had led in only two states in the second ballot, was pushed over the top by an ongoing fued between Russo & Nolan.

    Badnarik-423
    Russo-344

    Russo, in his departing speech, took a swipe at Nolan saying something like, "when I got into this race, I didn't know if it was as much about winning the nomination, as it was about making sure that Nolan didn't get the nomination." Badnarik has no money and no personality, he's from Texas and all but assures that the Libertarian Party in 2004 will be no different than the Libertarian Party in previous elections.

  • Second Ballot totals: Nolan gets knocked out, and the crowd allows him to speak, and he endorses Badnarik, while shouting down the Russo supporters, here were the second ballot totals:

    Badnarik-249
    Nolan-244
    Russo-285

    Russo pulled much higher numbers, with both Nolan and Badnarik dropping a bit.

  • First Ballot totals: Out of 808 total delegates, with a 405 majority needed for the nomination, the totals were:

    Badnarik-256
    Nolan-246
    Russo-258

    The speeches were your typical boring stuff, and the Indy 500 appears delayed by rain, so watching cars race in a circle wasn't an option to watch yet... but the voting was tight the whole way through. The best line by the state representatives was by Missouri's, who stated "Now you see why we voted for the dead guy?" It brought down the house.

    After the next ballot, one of the above candidates will be knocked off, and the runoff will proceed with the top two candidates.

  • I'll try and make some updates as this proceeds. There's also a blogroll of "Liberty blogs" on Aaron Russo's blog.

Tags: 3rd Parties (all tags)

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right on
you said my sentiments exactly. I actually came out of that experience of watching the convention with a gladness that the Democratic Party didn't have a brokered convention. Badnarik held a majority in only 2-3 states for the first two rounds, and one of them was Texas, his homestate. Russo gave a great sppech at the end, too bad it's his last as their voice.
by Jerome Armstrong 2004-05-30 04:44PM | 0 recs

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