<div dir="ltr">As usual, journalists cannot be bothered to look at actual data.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div>Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)</div></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Scott L. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott73@earthlink.net" target="_blank">scott73@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">Former LNC Regional
Representative Dianna Visek called this article to my attention.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“</span></font>This article appears
on page 11 of the Aug. 18, 2014 issue of <u>Time</u> magazine. In
the print version there's a map showing eleven states with "Senate
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Minnesota, N. Carolina, S. Dakota, Virginia, W. Virginia.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">This
Election Season, Revenge of the Thirds <a href="mailto:?subject=This%20Election%20Season%2C%20Revenge%20of%20the%20Thirds%20%7C%20TIME&body=This%20Election%20Season%2C%20Revenge%20of%20the%20Thirds%0A%0AExtra-party%20politicians%20heat%20up%20the%20race%20for%202014%0A%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F3062892%2Fthis-election-season-revenge-of-the-thirds%2F" title="Click to Email this article" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F3062892%2Fthis-election-season-revenge-of-the-thirds%2F" title="Click to post this article to Facebook" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://time.com/3062892/this-election-season-revenge-of-the-thirds/" title="Click to Tweet this article" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F3062892%2Fthis-election-season-revenge-of-the-thirds%2F" title="Click to post this article to Google+" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F3062892%2Fthis-election-season-revenge-of-the-thirds%2F&title=This+Election+Season%2C+Revenge+of+the+Thirds" title="Click to post this article to LinkedIn" target="_blank"></a>
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<h2><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Extra-party politicians heat up the race for 2014<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></h2>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For most
of the modern era, third-party candidates have acted like the crazy uncles of
American politics: fun to watch but rarely relevant. But in the past four
years, the outcomes of four Senate races have been jumbled by outsiders, and
this year is set to deliver even more disruption.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ten of
the 12 Senate seats with the potential to swing in November have drawn
third-party challengers. Nine of those races have Libertarian Party candidates
who are likely to pull votes from Republicans. That’s hardly news for
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who is hoping his party can take six
seats and regain control of the Senate, but who may have to contend with a
Libertarian challenger of his own in <u></u><u></u>Kentucky<u></u><u></u>’s
general election.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The
question now is how much of a difference third-party hopefuls will make in the
outcome of the fall contests. In the razor-thin race in <u></u><u></u>Georgia<u></u><u></u>, outside candidates like
Libertarian Amanda Swafford, a paralegal and former city councilwoman who
started her own newspaper, have drawn up to 7% of the vote in early polls. In <u></u><u></u>North Carolina<u></u><u></u>,
Libertarian Sean Haugh, a pizza deliveryman, has rated in the high single
digits in early polls, far more than the gap separating the two major-party
candidates there.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The
Libertarian boom grows out of Tea Party estrangement from Establishment
Republicans and should, at the margins, benefit Democratic candidates. But even
the most strident antigovernment candidates may draw some Democratic votes this
year.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The
volatile mix of angry voters and long ballots might even delay the
election’s outcome. In <u></u><u></u>Louisiana<u></u><u></u>’s
free-for-all contest, two outside candidates look likely to deprive the two
main hopefuls, Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy, of an
outright win of 50% of the vote, forcing a runoff scheduled for Dec. 6. If
control of the Senate hangs on that race, the nation will have to wait until
then to learn who rules the chamber.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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