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Libertarian Strategy MonthlyHerding Cats Since May 2009

Volume 1 | Number 1 Friday, May 1, 2009

In This Issue:Pages 2-7OpinionThe Successes and

Failures of the Barr

Campaign

Pages 8-10Opinion

What We Need For

Victory

Pages 10-11News & AnalysisFerguson Assists in

Resolving MIAC

Controversy

Pages 11-12News & Analysis

American Progress SurveyProvides Insight into

Libertarian Supporters

Page 12News & AnalysisSundwall Loses Ballot

Access

Pages 12-13News & AnalysisIowa Gay Marriage-What

Strategy Will They Use

Pages 13-15News & Analysis

LNC Chair and 2012

Presidential Polls

Issue Brief:

PGPF-Citizens-Guide-

2009

THE STATE OF

THE UNIONSFINANCESis not good and is

getting worse with the

passage of time.The federal

government cant

control its spending,and it isnt doing a

good job of raising

revenues. The result?

Persistent budgetdeficits, a rapidly

ballooning national

debt, and an increasingreliance on foreign

lenders. Moreover,

projections of currentpolicy point to

dramatic future

increases in deficit anddebt levels that

threaten Americaswell-being across the

board.

Read Full Report:

http://www.pgpf.org/getinvolved/citizens-

guide/2009

Privacy Alert:

Homeland Security

Chief Moving to Stop

Real IDFrom:

www.bobbarr.org

The Real ID Act,

mandating a national

identification card,was passed by a

Republican-controlled

Congress in 2005 and

then signed byRepublican President

George W. Bush.

One of those

governors objecting to

the Real ID programwas Janet Napolitano

of Arizona, who now

serves as PresidentObamas Secretary of

Homeland Security.

Recently, Secretary

Napolitano stated thatshe will work in her

new capacity to repealthe Real ID Act.

Read Full Report:http://bobbarr.org/default.asp?pt=doc&doc=p

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Opinion

The Successes and Failuresof the Barr Campaign

Conversing WithJake

By Jake Porter

Shortly after theBob Barr 2008

Presidential

campaign ended, I received manyquestions regarding both the successes

and failures of the campaign. After all, I

was an early opponent of Bob Barr, wasin Kansas City, Missouri when Bob

announced his exploratory committee,

and was in Denver when he finally wonthe nomination. In fact, Bob received my

delegate vote every round after GeorgePhillies was defeated. In my humble

opinion, Bob Barr is a very good manand he had the best intentions of the

Libertarian Party in mind when running.

In this article, I will try to present boththe successes and failures of the

campaign in a non-confrontational or

condemning manner.

A day after Bob won the nomination, I

phoned someone involved with thecampaign to volunteer and had to leave a

message on their voicemail.Unfortunately, I never heard back fromthis person. After I flew back from

Denver, I e-mailed a campaign staffer

asking to volunteer. Remember, I was

not asking for a paying job. Attached

was my resume which includes

managing campaigns and other largegroups as well as being elected Alternate

to a Region

of the

LibertarianNational

Committeeand while I

am very

young, mypolitical

experience

is nothing to

becompletely

scoffed at.This time, I was informed it would beput at the top of the to-do list. Once

again, I never heard anything back in

response to volunteering. A week or solater, I was informed that Mike Ferguson

was named my Regional Coordinator for

the Barr campaign. Mike is a very

competent political campaigner who hasbeen elected to public office. I e-mailed

Mike and within hours received a phone

call from him. In my experience withvolunteers, many would have given up

after the first or second attempt to try to

volunteer.

Around the middle of July, I was named

Iowa Coordinator for the campaign. Thisallowed me to see first hand both the

successes and failures of the Barr

campaign. It is my hope that by releasingthis article, in the future, we can improve

upon our successes and not repeat the

failures. It is not nor has it ever been my

intention to attack anyone for trying anidea that didnt work. As the quote that I

have posted on my desk that Theodore

Roosevelt once said goes The creditbelongs to the man who is actually in the

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sweat and blood, who strives valiantly,

who errs and comes up short again andagain, because there is no effort without

error or shortcoming.

Success and Failures:

Advertising

In 2004, I actually remember seeing acouple of the Michael Badnarik

television ads on CNN Headline News.

In 2008, I saw and heard no Bob Barradvertisements. The video ad of 2008, in

my opinion, was less visually appealing

than the 2004 television ad I seen of

Michael Badnarik. I have no idea if theBarr campaign used any television or

radio advertising either nationwide orstatewide. I know they had a couple of

radio ads produced and at least one ad

that could have been used on television,

but I have no evidence they ever ran. Ifthey did, there was certainly not much of

an attempt to promote the fact that they

were running. Many times the fact thatyou are running ads is worth more in

media attention than the advertisementswere themselves.

Additionally, I asked to fundraise in

Iowa for our own advertising. All mypolling and sources strongly indicated to

me that Obama was going to win Iowa

by a large vote total and there was only

about a three percent chance of McCainwinning according to the betting odds. It

looked almost a certainty that Iowa was

not going to be a swing state and Bobhad the potential to do very well in Iowa

if we would just have some ability to

promote the campaign using traditionalmedia and use public relations to

promote our advertising campaign. After

all, Bob was born in Iowa City. The

local media would love to discuss that

little aspect.

After I was given a green light on theIowa advertising plan and spent a lot of

my time pursuing rates and plans, I wastold we could not fundraise through theBarr campaign our own advertising. Talk

about a clear violation of the 1:10:100

rule. Those of you who have worked

with me know that I rarely get angry andam usually exceptionally calm. After I

was told this, I was livid and strongly

considered telling the national staff whatthey could do. Fortunately, our Iowa

supporters and volunteers never found

out about the decision of the nationalcampaign staff.

Ballot Access

The state organizations must be

strengthened to decrease the time andeffort required to gather signatures. In

2012, ballot access must improve. Ballot

access is one area that the party is doingworse than we were in previous years. In

2004, the Libertarian Presidentialnominee was on the ballot in 48 statesplus Washington D.C. In 2008, we were

only on the ballot in 45 states and not

Washington D.C.

There definitely needed to be better

coordination with the Libertarian Party

on ballot access. There also needed to bequick decisive decisions made as to what

states we were going to target and what

states we were going to give up on. Iremember that Mike Ferguson was going

to drive up to Des Moines, Iowa where

the Libertarian Party of Iowa washolding an Executive Committee

meeting. At the last minute, he called

and told me that he was going to have togo to West Virginia to petition and


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mentioned sending Vice-Presidential

candidate Root in. Instead of flying inWayne, I had Mike set up a conference

call with Wayne and Mike was kind

enough to record a video. If we would

have started West Virginia earlier wecould have possibly got on the ballot. If

we would have stuck with the decisionnot to go to West Virginia we would

have saved a lot of volunteer and

financial resources. Another examplewas the Louisiana ballot access. Bob

should have been on the ballot in

Louisiana and I am informed that he

likely would have with bettercoordination.

The attempt by the Barr campaign to

kick John McCain and Barack Obamaoff the Texas ballot generated great

publicity and allowed the Americanpeople to view the hypocrisy of ballot

access laws. In fact, this was discussed

on a radio, not talk radio, station I waslistening to.

Communications

The Barr campaign had a very goodidea. The Barr campaign allowed the

state coordinators to call in on a weekly

conference call to discuss strategy. They

also allowed us to use the conferencecall to call our county coordinators in

our states. This allowed us to share ideas

and communicate more effectively witheach other.

Materials

Another bad thing about announcing lateis that the campaign does not have things

like brochures ready. It wasn't until July

that I got the brochures to hand out. It

was also suggested that we would becharged by the campaign for obtaining

the campaign materials to distribute;

however, the campaign did send mematerials to distribute at no cost to me

personally. Unfortunately, volunteers

were forced to buy their own yard signs.

I hated to tell supporters that I wouldgive them bumper stickers, but I had no

yard signs for them.

I caught a lot of hell over the fact that

Libertarian was not mentioned on manyof the campaign materials. There was a

legitimate reason for that. It is easier to

convince someone to vote for you if theydont feel excluded by party names. The

thing that concerned me was that there

was no volunteer form to fill out andsend in on the brochures.

Media

In 2004, I seen Gary Nolan on Fox News

once and heard that Michael Badnarikwon the nomination on the morning

radio news break, and listened to

Michael on Mancow. The Gary Nolaninterview was my first introduction to

theLibertarianParty.

Compare

this with

2008. In2008, I

heard Bob

Barr beingmentioned

shortly

before heannounced his exploratory campaign,

immediately after he announced, during

the radio news breaks numerous times,seen Bob in the news papers numerous

times, and even on the front page of

Yahoo a few times. In fact, my cousin

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he had more legislative experience than

President Obama had.

Racism: During the 2008 Ron PaulPresidential campaign, Ron Paul refused

to return money donated by a member ofthe White Nationalist Community,Stormfront. This along with the

newsletters did, in my opinion, great

harm to the Paul campaign. When an

endorsement of Bob Barr was posted ona separatist website, Barr campaign

manager Russ Verney released the

following statement:

The Barr campaign is not going to be a

vehicle for every fringe and hate groupto promote itself. We do not want and

will not accept the support of haters.

Anyone with love in their heart for ourcountry and for every resident of our

country regardless of race, religion,

nationality or sexual orientation iswelcome with open arms.

Tell the haters I said don't let the doorhit you on the backside on your way out!

Source:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/1267

90.html

I believe the reply posted by Mr. Verney

above kept the campaign on message.

Swing-State Strategy

One strategy that it appears both the

2004 campaign of Michael Badnarik andthe 2008 campaign of Bob Barr used

was targeting swing states. In my

opinion, it didnt work either time andwhen you target swing states you might

get more media attention; however,

voters who think they can decide the

outcome of the election dont end up

voting for a third party candidate. In thefuture, I would like to see the Libertarian

candidate target safe states to try and

increase their vote totals that way.

Volunteer Support

In my opinion, one of the biggest factorsthat harmed the Barr campaign was the

fact that Bob announced so late that he

had not had time to develop a campaignstructure like I assisted with as National

Mobilization Facilitator and later on as

Chief of Staff for the Phillies campaign.With the Phillies campaign, we had

coordinators in a little over twenty of the

states, one in D.C., and I had plans toname the rest shortly after the

convention ended. Running for Presidenttakes a lot of planning and when a

candidate decides impulsively at the lastminute they dont have the time to put

together a staff and fix any problems

before the general election. This shouldbe a lesson to the future Libertarian

Party delegates about nominating

candidates who have not had time tobuild their campaign organizations. In

November, at the end of the campaign, it

appears the Barr campaign was aboutwhere the Phillies campaign was at inMay in regards to the number of state

coordinators.

As Iowa coordinator, you would likely

think I would have had access to the

Iowa volunteer lists. I did not. In order to

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contact the Iowa volunteers I had to

write an e-mail, send it to my regionalcoordinator, and he had to send it to

someone on the national staff to actually

send out. Sometimes it would take

almost a week of fighting to get an e-mail blast sent out. I really did like the e-

mail blast idea. In fact, it made my jobof getting talking points out very

effective; however, I think in hindsight it

should have been just a small part of thevolunteer contact strategy.

Perhaps the biggest failure, in myopinion, was immediately following the

campaign. The day after the election, I

wrote an e-mail to be sent out to all theIowa supporters thanking them and

asking them to get involved with theLibertarian Party of Iowa. It never went

out.

No state pages on website: One thing welearned in 2008 was the ability to use the

Internet, for more than just porn and

eBay, to promote campaign events. I

first started seeing this work when I wasworking with the Phillies Presidential

campaign. Our MySpace coordinator

was posting events to the PhilliesMySpace calendar. People started

showing up to events because they seen

it on our MySpace profile. That is whywe started the process of state pages

during the Phillies campaign. After the

nomination we would be ready to

promote news and events in every state.

During the Barr campaign, it would havebeen great to set up state pages to inform

supporters what events were happening

and news such as polling numbers, door-to-door efforts, and petition deadlines.

Wayne Root

It has been suggested to me that the

second biggest failure, behind the swing-state strategy, in the Barr campaign is

that they did not properly utilize the

media skills and abilities of Vice-

Presidential candidate Wayne Root bytrying to get Wayne on more talk radio

programs.

The article wouldnt be complete

without mentioning some of my ownpersonal mistakes in the campaign. I

predicted we could get a coordinator in

all five of Iowas CongressionalDistricts. We only finished with three. I

also believed I could get around two

percent of the vote with the limitedresources I had. While we received a

higher percentage and more votes thanany Libertarian Presidential candidate

since Ed Clark in 1980 we did not comeanywhere close to getting the two

percent I believed we could receive. I

also failed in my project to get Bob toIowa.

J.D. (Jake) Porter, a 2008 BusinessAdministration graduate, previously

served as Chief of Staff to the George

Phillies Presidential campaign, Iowa

Coordinator for the 2008 Bob BarrPresidential campaign, and worked as

Business Manager for the Saint Joseph

Telegraph. Today, he is the owner ofJ.D. Porter Consulting, is the Alternate

to Region 6 of the Libertarian National

Committee, and resides in the state ofMissouri.


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What We Need for Victory

By Dr. George Phillies

www.thedailyliberty.com

In the end, we

will be

politicallysuccessful

when we win

elections,elect our

candidates to

office, and put

a libertarian

direction onthe country's

political agenda.

Political success demands a series ofelements. All the elements are needed at

once. The libertarian political

movement that will bring us to victory is

the movement that takes responsibilityfor assembling all those elements. A

libertarian political movement that

refuses to develop some of thoseelements is a libertarian political

movement that is foredoomed to failure.

What are those elements?

Voter Base: Most Americans choose

their political party once, or perhaps

twice, in their entire life. They choose

their party, for the most part, because itis the party that they trust to make the

right decisions for them. In building avoter base, issues are not unimportant,but they rarely win elections. To win,

we need a strong voter base.

Candidates: We need people who can

and will win elections for us. Those

people are candidates who are credible

and who can discuss major issues in a

credible way. A successful libertarianpolitical movement will implement

Libertarian Centrism to provide credible

libertarian discussion of major issues.

Activist Mobilization and Training: Asuccessful political party is built by its

feet on the ground, its volunteers. A

successful libertarian political movement

will motivate supporters to becomeactivists, and will give them the tools

they need to make a success of

themselves.

Local Organization: To elect the local,

county, state, and Federal officials weneed for victory, we need libertarian

political organizations that cover every

front door in America. A nationallibertarian political movement won't

organize your ward for you. It will

worry that there are effective state andcounty parties everywhere, and that your

state party is doing real political work

rather than being co-opted by the

Republicans.

Fundraising: Money really is thelifeblood of politics. To raise money,

you need a solid fund raising effort, and

you not a credible record indicating thatyou will spend money well. A successful

national libertarian movement will focusits spending on doing politics. Anunsuccessful national libertarian

movement will concentrate its resources

on real estate and paid central staff.

There are only so many dollars outthere; a successful libertarian political

movement will ensure that the national,

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Ten Items That

Supplement a GreatCampaign Website:

1. Professional Photo

of Candidate

2. Summary ofCommunity

Involvement and

Political Experience

3. Press page with

high-resolution photos,

press releases, and amedia kit

4. Volunteer form thatincludes address, phone,

and e-mail

5. Campaign logo inthe website header

6. Printable brochures

7. Opt-in campaign

newsletter

8. Online donations

9. List of UpcomingEvents

10. Short biography

and photos of campaignstaff

state, and local fund efforts are in

balance.

Marketing: Advertising can't winelections for you. Most people made up

their minds where to vote, oh, years andyears ago. Advertising can make surethat people know you are there, so that

when they want our answer, they know

we are the people offering it.

Youth Outreach: It is no longer true that

young people do not vote. Furthermore,

young people are extremely open to ourmessage of social tolerance and fiscal

prudence. A successful libertarian

political movement will have a strongyouth and student outreach effort.

Think Tanks: The Libertarian political

movement needs effective think tanks,

bodies that do the hard work of fleshing

out proposals for credible changes in alibertarian direction. A successful

libertarian political movement will

ensure that those think tanks appearing,rather than piously claiming that the lack

of think tanks is not their problem tosolve.

Affinity Groups: It is not true that the

NRA and NARAL are the NationalRepublican Association and the National

Anti-Republican Action League. They

each represent a particular set of

opinions on a particular issue. However,as the strategy deployed to create that

representation, they very much tend to

act by supporting a political party that isinclined in their direction. Affinity

groups mostly don't switch parties. We

need our own affinity groups, affinitygroups open to all Americans, while

almost always finding good reasons to

support libertarians. A successfullibertarian political movement will

develop its own affinity groups, just as

the Democratic and Republican partiesdo.

Media: Crying about press coverage

will not give us media support. Whatthe libertarian movement needs are

libertarians who are willing to do the


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hard work (which, incidentally, will

create paying jobs for themselves) ofdeveloping legitimate press outlets the

do a fine job of covering reality, while

ensuring that the hidden assumptions

used to choose which news is importantand what it means are libertarian

assumptions. A successful libertarianpolitical movement will help those

libertarians develop their media skills

and outlets.

News and Analysis

Ferguson Assists inResolving MIAC Controversy

This past month, Libertarian Party of

Missouri spokesman Mike Ferguson didan excellent job handling the public

relations regarding a controversial report

released by the Missouri InformationAnalysis Center which many believe

branded Libertarians as potential militia

members and domestic terrorists. Thestate of Missouri has since issued an

apology and is no longer distributing the

report.

Ferguson, former national field director

for Congressman Bob Barrs 2008

Libertarian Presidential campaign,issued many press releases and was a

guest on many radio and television news

programs making certain the issue wasresolved in a positive manner.

Additionally, the Missouri Legislature

recently honored Ferguson for hiscommunity work.

Whereas, the members of theMissouri House of

Representatives hold in high

esteem those Show-Me Stateresidents who have proven down

through the years to be

exemplary citizens in localcommunities and neighborhoods

through the depth and breadth of

their civic involvement; and

Whereas, Mike Ferguson ofGrandview, Missouri, has

attained considerable distinction

as the producer/host of the

Missouri Viewpoints web site, anadjunct professor, a freelance

writer and communications

consultant, and an alderman; and

Whereas, holder of Certified

Staffing Professional recognitionfrom the American Staffing

Association, Mike Ferguson

gained a significant amount ofknowledge, skills, and

experiences when he managed

the human resources departmentfor one of Americas fastest

growing companies and the

recruiting, training, and human

resources operations for divisionsof two Fortune 500 companies;

and

Whereas, prior to working in

human resources, Mike Ferguson

was a journalist in the KansasCity area whose media

experiences included television,

radio, and newspaper; and

Whereas, Mike Ferguson has

been integrally involved with theMissouri State Plan Committee,

city of Grandview Transportation

Committee, Jackson CountyPublic Water Supply District No.

1 Board of Directors, and

Grandview PlanningCommission; and


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Whereas, no stranger to honors

and accolades, Mike Ferguson isthe recipient of a Champion of

Freedom Award from the

Missouri Libertarian Party and a

Thomas Paine Award from theLibertarian National Committee,

was selected as the LibertarianPartys state lieutenant governor

nominee, and has been invited to

appear on national television fourtimes as a host, speaker or guest;

and

Whereas, Mike Ferguson is a

member of Southland Baptist

Church, where he is universallypraised as a loving father to

Austin and Amber:

Now, therefore, be it resolved

that we, the Members of the

Missouri House ofRepresentatives, Ninety-Fifth

General Assembly, join

unanimously to applaud the

personal and professionalaccomplishments garnered thus

far in life and the work of Mike

Ferguson and to convey to himthis legislative bodys most

heartfelt wishes for continued

success for many more years tocome; and

Be it further resolved that theChief Clerk of the Missouri

House of Representatives be

instructed to prepare a properlyinscribed copy of this resolution

for presentation to Mike

Ferguson of Grandview,Missouri.

Offered byRepresentative Leonard (Jonas)

Hughes, IV

District No. 42

Representative Jason R. Holsman

District No. 45

I, Ronald F. Richard, Speaker of

the House of Representatives,

Ninety-Fifth General Assembly,

First Regular Session, do certify

that the above is a true and

correct copy of House Resolution

No. 813, adopted February 25,

2009.

American Progress SurveyProvides Insight intoLibertarian Supporters

In March, the Center for American

Progress conducted a detailed survey ofpolitical beliefs as well as information

including party identification.According to the survey, Libertariansmake up 2% of the country.

From the survey:

Both the liberal and

libertarian labels enjoy muchlower the same position as

progressive was five years ago,

with more than one-fifth of

Americans unaware of the termor unable to rate it. Surprisingly,

self-identified conservatives do

not look favorably uponlibertarian: 35 percent of

conservatives rate the term

favorably, only 10 points higherthan their rating of liberal. In

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contrast, a majority (53 percent)

of conservatives rateprogressive favorably.

Younger liberals emerge as the

group that views the libertarian

approach most favorably, withnearly six in 10 giving it a

positive mark (59 percent).

Additionally, the survey appears to

indicate that Libertarians draw similaramounts of support from both

Democrats and Republicans while

gaining most support from Independents.This contradicts the long held stereotype

that most Libertarians are former

Republicans and is also perhaps a goodreason for Libertarian candidates to

focus more on gaining support from

Independent voters.

Table 14Partisan and ideological identification

The complete American Progress survey

results can be read by visiting:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/pdf/political_ideology.pdf

Sundwall Loses Ballot

Access

According to Liberty for America, Eric

Sunwall, a Libertarian candidate forCongress, was forced off the ballot after

a successful petition challenge. Liberty

for America reports that Sundwallendorsed his Democratic opponent.

And when Sundwall's Republican

carpetbagger opponent

managed to challenge Sundwall's

petitions, and successfully

knocked Sundwall off the ballot,

Sundwall took theintelligent political step: He urged

his supporters to vote

for the Democrat, thus maximizing

the losses the Republicans

received from their maneuvers.

Source:

http://libertyforamerica.com/200904.pdf

The Democrat defeated the Republican

and won the race.

Iowa Gay Marriage-WhatStrategy Will They Use

Recently, the

Iowa SupremeCourt ruled in

a unanimous

decision thatlimiting

marriage, inIowa, to one man and one woman

violated the Iowa Constitution.

Obviously, libertarians believe

government has no role in the marriagebusiness, but if government is going to

stick their nose in the bedroom, where it

has absolutely no business being, it isrequired to be fair about their laws. This

is an issue that those promoting the

states rights conservative version oflibertarianism will have majordisagreements with libertarians who

believe in and support the theory of

natural law specifically since the issue ofgay marriage is occurring at the state

level. The theory of natural law is one

that rights come from God, or you are

LiberalProgressiveModerateLibertarianConservative

Democrats252529114

Independents81439624

Republicans4530168


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born with certain unalienable rights.

States have no rights and instead ofrights they have powers granted to them

by individuals.

For many social conservatives, gaymarriage is an outrage and an

abomination; however, amending theIowa Constitution will be no easy task

for them to accomplish. Amending the

Iowa constitution will require having amajority vote of the Iowa Legislature in

two consecutive sessions, and then face

approval on the Iowa ballot. In my

opinion, if an amendment banning gaymarriage ever makes the Iowa ballot, it

passes; however, getting it on the ballotwill take an incredible amount of work.

This is a huge opportunity for the Iowa

Republican Party to rebuild after thedisastrous 2006 and 2008 elections

which have damaged the Iowa GOP.

On the other side, those in favor of Iowa

gay marriage need to lobby theirlegislatures to make certain an

amendment does not ever pass the Iowa

House or Senate.

Poll Results for LibertarianNational Committee Chairand the 2012 PresidentialNominee

On April 5th, lp-discuss.org startedunscientific online polls for the 2010

Libertarian National Committee Chair

election and for the 2012 Libertarian

Presidential nominee. Polls such asthese may not be scientific; however,

they can assist in determining amount oforganization and support. As of April

28th the results were as follows: (Note:

many of the following individuals have

not announced their intention to run).

LP 2010 National Committee

Chair (April 5)

Results as of Tuesday, April 28 2009 @

06:46 PM EDT

LP 2010 National Committee Chair

(April 5, 2009)

1/6: LP 2010 National Committee

Chair - Field

WayneRoot

27 (25.47%)

MichaelJingozian 5 (4.72%)

Ruth

Bennett1 (0.94%)

Jim Lark 22 (20.75%)

Mary

Ruwart17 (16.04%)

DavidNolan

8 (7.55%)

Ernie

Hancock6 (5.66%)

George

Phillies15 (14.15%)

NOTA 5 (4.72%)


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2/6: Head-to-head: Redpath vs. Nolan

BillRedpath

34 (32.08%)

DavidNolan

55 (51.89%)

NOTA 17 (16.04%)

3/6: Head-to-head: Redpath vs.

Phillies

Bill

Redpath

38

(35.85%)

George

Phillies

48

(45.28%)

NOTA 20 (18.87%)

4/6: Head-to-head: Redpath vs. Lark

Bill

Redpath28 (26.42%)

Jim

Lark

49

(46.23%)

NOTA 29 (27.36%)

5/6: Head-to-head: Redpath vs.

Ruwart

Bill

Redpath 32 (30.19%)

MaryRuwart 60 (56.60%)

NOTA 14 (13.21%)

6/6: Head-to-head: Phillies vs. Hancock

George

Phillies

37

(34.91%)

ErnieHancock

29 (27.36%)

NOTA40

(37.74%)

LP 2012 Presidential

Nomination Straw Poll (April 5,

'09)

Results as of Tuesday, April 28 2009 at

06:47 PM EDT

LP 2012 Presidential Nomination StrawPoll (April 2, 2009)

1/5: The Pack - Choose One

Bob Barr 5 (3.62%)

Mary

Ruwart29 (21.01%)

Ron Paul47

(34.06%)

Wayne

Root21 (15.22%)

Michael

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