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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://www.wwnorton.com/college/polisci/campaignsandelections/ch/06/outline.aspx">http://www.wwnorton.com/college/polisci/campaignsandelections/ch/06/outline.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Shruti><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Shruti'>“Political Parties <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 face=Shruti><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Shruti'><span
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=4 face=Shruti><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Shruti'>The goal
of electing public officials is what unites political parties and what
distinguishes them from other groups.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 face=Shruti><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Shruti'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://fee.org/freeman/detail/specialization-and-wealth">http://fee.org/freeman/detail/specialization-and-wealth</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Adam Smith
illustrates the importance of specialization, or the division of labor, by
considering the advantage of having each worker in a pin factory concentrate on
a particular step in production rather than producing a pin from beginning to
end. Through specialization workers can become more skillful, use machinery
that increases their productive powers, and avoid the loss of time from
constantly changing activities. These advantages are rather obvious, but the
increase in productivity is far greater than one would expect. According to
Smith, ten pin-makers, by specializing in different tasks, can produce about
forty-eight thousand pins a day. But if each attempted to perform every task in
pin production, Smith doubted that they could each make twenty pins a day, or
two hundred among them.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>This is
why I am so interested in seeing the Libertarian Party elect Libertarians to
public office.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Having
the word “Party” in our name implies that we follow the definition
above, which is the standard definition of the phrase “political party”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>It is
clear that the more we specialize in winning elections, the more Libertarians
we will elect. I have yet to find anyone who can successfully argue why it is
better that the Libertarian Party should be a third-rate Cato Institute,
instead of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>a
first-rate political party.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Scott
Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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