(01-15-2019, 01:50 PM)EricC85 Wrote:

(01-15-2019, 12:39 PM)mikesez Wrote: So many libertarians on message boards... so few at ballot boxes...

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Yup.

It's been the largest third party by far the last few elections. The media doesn't report it but the libertarians polled almost 3% in the Romney and Obama election. They went from being on 2 state ballots in 1972 to all 50 ballots in 2018. It's a broad party from Gary Johnson a very liberal leaning libertarian to Ron Paul the most extreme conservative libertarian. 

Problem is while many people agree with lots of their positions the national elections it's still viewed as a wasted vote or protest vote at best. 

It's growing but painfully slow and still pretty underound and without strong organization at the top. The convention in Orlando is a joke .

Until the Constitution is amended, your path to the white house starts by winning a plurality of the votes in one state.
Each of the two big parties unveils their candidates slowly in a way that gets all 50 states to see their candidates as legitimate, not a wasted vote.  
until the Constitution is amended, your only chance at success is to replicate that process. Try to get at least two candidates to compete in a New Hampshire primary and have a plan in place for going on state-by-state from there.
you would need reliable people on the ground in every state that doesn't do a caucus. You would have to hope and pray for decent turnout.
The good news is you don't have to follow that recipe.  
You can blow up that system!
Simply get the members of your party to pledge to support, not a libertarian candidate necessarily, but the Rep or Dem candidate that Libertarian party leadership tells them to support.
Then make it known that the libertarian party will support whoever is going to help blow up the electoral college system sufficiently to allow a third party to enter. Watch major party candidates in close races line up to take that pledge.

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