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Originally Posted by willravel
What if Ron Paul, who has garnered maddeningly religious support, had run Libertarian? He's gotten over 1m votes in the primary already. That doesn't include Democrats who would likely vote for him if Hillary ran. I may not agree with Dr. Paul, but I'm well aware that he's quite charismatic and is the very model of libertarian leadership.
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Ron Paul's problem is that I'm going to guess 80% of his 'supporters' don't even know what libertarianism is. He seemed to attract a large contingent of lunatic fringe people, conspiracy nuts (why I'm not sure), and 'Dude they want to legalize pot man!' types.
This is the curse of libertarians in general as the public thinks in issues not philosophy.