Arizona could be a spoiler on the road to 270

Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for the White House stopped by Grandview University to make his case.

“As a New Mexican, he’s fairly well known in Arizona”, said Johnson’s spokesman, Joe Hunter.

When the public-address system briefly malfunctioned during Johnson’s appearance, the crowd picked up a chant of “let Gary debate” while they waited for power to be restored.

I hope voters get to see former GOP Governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld on the debate stages this fall.

Johnson’s 9-point-plus standing came through polls of registered voters, but in the coming weeks, numerous five network pollsters are switching to polls of likely voters, a smaller subset of the population among whom Johnson has thus far scored slightly worse.

Crow thinks this proves that if everyone involved in pushing the Johnson campaign forward had similar success, which involves “a methodical plan that grinds it out in the trenches” that “they’d be doing debate-prep right now and we’d be having an entirely different conversation”. “That’s something which I’ll evaluate over the coming weeks and months”. “That’s an equation that Peter loves!” Although I do agree that legalizing all drugs should be the end goal, I also believe a great first step would be to legalize marijuana. The party says it expects to be on the ballot in all 50 states. But now the Libertarian presidential ticket is going on the air.

Johnson and Weld will need all the help they can get to meet that 15 percent threshold – a number that is completely arbitrary but would nonetheless sink third party candidacies like Johnson’s and the Green Party’s Jill Stein. He reiterates, “To my knowledge, we have not taken one penny” from the Kochs.

Johnson “is an easy out for some people in our party”, Flake told The Associated Press. The Commission on Presidential Debates requires a candidate to be polling at 15 percent in at least four national polls which they pick, Timothy Gleason, Penn State Green Party chair, said. There was also an online portion, which consumed around 10 percent of the total of $92,789 the PAC spent on the ME ad buys. That puts this year’s average a couple points higher than where it was at this point in 2012 – somewhere just above 5 percent. The first debate is Monday, Sept. 26, and Johnson says he is optimistic and if he doesn’t get into that one, he could get into one of the October debates.

But compare those totals to the third party or independent candidates: Thus far in 2016, Johnson has received a mere 11 seconds of evening news coverage – just a single sentence on the NBC Nightly News as he was formally nominated back in May.