<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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 10:02 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><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"><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Only those in FREE states (as determined by opinion polls taken anonymously over the phone before the election) are free. Libertarians living in those 40 or so free states (or 47 by some counts) are free to vote however they choose.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Given how radically wrong opinion polls turned out to be in 2016 its odd they should still play such a key part in your political philosophy. </font><div dir="ltr"><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"><i> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>In our times, it really all comes down to three big swingers: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. [...]<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Who the heck gave Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania permission to choose a president anyway? </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">Those weren't the 3 states I was talking about. If 77,000 people in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania who voted for the Libertarian party Mr. Nobody or the environmental <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Green</div> party Mr. Nobody had instead voted for Clinton we would not now have the most anti-libertarian anti-environmental president in the history of the nation. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></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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