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Zogby poll shows Barr could affect presidential election
Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate for president, is polling enough support in key battleground states to effect the outcome of the White House race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
According to a new poll by Zogby International, Barr is the presidential choice of eight percent of voters in Ohio, five percent in Florida and five percent in Pennsylvania, perhaps the three most important states in the 2008 presidential.
John Zogby, head of the polling firm, said the Georgian could hurt McCain “going down the stretch.”
In a statement reacting to Zogby’s polling, Barr, a former Republican congressman, said, “Americans recognize that neither John McCain nor Barack Obama are agents of change in this country.”
Comments
By David Williams
August 25, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
I think you mean “affect.” Duh.
By Bruce becker
August 25, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
Barr is attempting to form opinion with his claim, but it is not the case.
Obama will restore habeas corpus and put focus on healthcare and education.
I am for the repeal of the legal fiction that corporations have the rights of people. Barr isnt.
How much change can Barr accomplish without a majority in the Senate? None?
McCain is not just a veteran. He is a vet of a war that was started on a false pretext, the Tonkin Gulf non-event. The Johnson papers reveal that McNamara committed treason. Now we have McCain, the victim of treason assisting the Bush govt in perpetrating the IRAQ war on the basis of WMDs that never existed. OCT 2001 McCain on Letterman, created false propaganda to lead the US to war v IRAQ.
By EllenHilburn
August 26, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
I don’t know how Bob Barr is getting these percentages. I live in D.C. and didn’t even know he was running.
By Judy Carol
August 26, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
Bob Barr is much, much better than John McCain. What a relief it would be not to be saddles with him or Obama.
By James
August 27, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
It makes me proud to know that there are still Americans who can think independently. The two party system is a total failure. They present of with two candidates that are largely the same, chosen by party elites who control the caucus system. We are little different than China. We only have more than one party if there is a chance for a third to legitimately affect the outcome of the elections. I hope Barr becomes the kingmaker in swing states. It will serve the Republicans right for ignoring the those who believe in individual rights, and embracing neoconservatism.
Though it isn’t very comforting that the other Republicrat will be crowned and proceed to raid the treasury.
By Matt
August 27, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
I’d like to hear more about Barr’s change of faith. He has a dismal track record of supporting big government waste from the War on (Some) Drugs to his the millions wasted trying to impeach a man for incidents that should’ve remained private. I became turned on to the Libertarian Party because of Ron Paul’s articles on the Federal Reserve and the current fiscal crisis, but I have a hard time getting behind Barr. I’m not voting for either McCain or Obama because their primary difference in foreign policy is the tone of their spend-happy interventionist rhetoric. While Obama vaguely alludes to civil liberties in principle, he has yet to lay down a line for them. With a running mate like Biden, you have to wonder if his “change” charade is a sick joke or if he actually believes his own drivel. It only took about 5 seconds of McKinney to turn me off to the Greens for the meantime and the Constitutionalists thump their Bibles too much for my palate. This all brings me back to Barr. Do I vote for my favorite party even though their faceplate has a track record of being thoroughly counterproductive to the country and its people or do I just sit this one out since we’re all going to hell in a hand basket anyway? I kind of want to see him cry like Jimmy Swaggart after he got caught with the crack-smoking hooker before I forgive his track record. 2008 is truly a sorry collection of political sock puppets.