Election 08 Results

According to the Campaign for Liberty website, the following are the election results as they pertain to the front lines of the liberty movement:

Liberty PAC Wins were:
Ron Paul (earlier TX election)
Paul Broun
Roscoe Bartlett
Doug Lamborn
Denny Rehberg
Scott Garrett
John Culberson
Michelle Bachman
Walter Jones
Jeff Flake

Possible wins, waiting on recounts and final tallies: Tom McClintock and Virgil Goode

The Libertarian Party added 18% to its vote count in 2004 by earning 485,325 votes this cycle. The Constitution party added 17% over its vote count of 2004, by earning 173,166 votes. This means the voting segment of the liberty movement grew by around 35%. The CFL blog report says that overall voters decreased by 1% with 120,638,000 people voting. This is about 60% of the public who is eligible to vote.

Based on my own read of the numbers, it seems like around 5.5 million more people voted for Bush than for McCain, while about 5 million more people voted for Obama than did for Kerry. So there is a 5 million strong swing vote out there; but are they the same 5 million people, or is this just a proportional number in the society right now who are more skeptical, less complacent, and less apathetic than the majority of their peers?

The numbers reflect that liberty movement's increase is due to conversion, or due to new voting commitments by some who had abstained from voting in the past. If the results are mostly due to new voting commitments by previously abstaining citizens, then we have to assume a significant number of voters who generally go Republican decided to abstain this time around as well, while a significant number of those abstaining in the past decided to go Democrat this time around. If the results are more due to conversion of previously active voters on either the Republican or Democratic side, then our message is spreading. We can definitely assume that many seeds have been planted with currently disenfranchised Republicans and probably soon to be disenfranchised Democrats. We can even assume that our message is spreading among those not previously disenfranchised and not fully committed to politically activating based on the principle of liberty just yet. How many must have woken up that something is not right in government after the recent bailout, the Patriot Act, the growth in unconstitutional executive powers!

My non-scientific opinion: Many new voters activated for Obama. Many of these voters voted for a persona, rather than a set of principles or a specific platform. Standard Republican voters held fairly strong for McCain, but only out of fear of Obama's Marxist leanings. They too voted at the superficial persona level, given that they did not grasp the lack of fundamental differences between Obama and McCain. An uncompromising remnant minority of those believing firmly in the principle of individual liberty, and believing in the importance of defending the U.S. Constitution as well as the ideals laid out in the other founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence split their vote three ways. Many chose not to vote, believing, possibly correctly, that the whole process is a rigged charade. We know they didn't vote, because some of them write about it. Those who did activate and vote grew in numbers, and chose between two candidates. Knowing the chance of ultimate success was naught, the libertarian and constitutional minority tried to send some type of message with a vote for either Baldwin or Barr.

In the end, liberty will shrink at the hands of a government run by globalists, but the liberty movement grows. The more they push, the more we will grow. But they will try to be very clandestine with their pushing. The globalist, such as the C.F.R. behind both Republicans and Democrats will continue to present the thesis/antithesis arguments for perceived problems and "emergencies" their goal will of course be to produce synthesis; synthesis toward global governance, erosion of the sovereignty, shredding of the U.S. Constitution and less liberty -problem, reaction, solution. They cannot do this completely in the dark. Every time they do it, more wake up. We that are awake to this have a problem though. Our rate of change in educating our peers needs to outperform their rate of change in eroding our liberty. Thank you Ron Paul for giving us a much needed acceleration of trend in this election cycle! You have patiently and diligently performed, spoke and legislated based on principle rather than perceived pragmatism. You have let God lead you to where you need to be, and you have in turn produced much fruit.