<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 4:12 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="line-height:1.5"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-7107558302079281219WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>></div>Hillary got 2,864,974 more popular votes than Trump, Johnson got less than 1.3 million votes, however if she got just 77,000 more votes in 3 states she would be president … John K Clark</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i></i></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><i>></i></div><i>That is my point exactly. Had the second place winner merely tossed Johnson’s followers a bone, anything, anything at all, perhaps a few percent of those 1.3 million votes could have swung the election. Good point.</i><p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If 77,000 people in 3 states who call themselves themselves libertarians had voted for Clinton we would not now have the most anti-libertarian leader in the nation's history. </font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-7107558302079281219WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>For Libertarians, it is all about balancing the Federal budget, regardless of what it takes to do that. <p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In</font> 1998 the first Clinton gave us a balanced budget in 1998 for the first time since 1835, then he did it again in 1999, 2000 and 2001. <span style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Trump gave us the most un-balanced budget ever.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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