John McAfee Denied Libertarian Party Nomination For President (reason.com)

SonicSpike quotes an article at Reason: In a decisive rout for pragmatism over purity, the Libertarian Party has nominated former New Mexico Republican Governor and 2012 nominee Gary Johnson for president. Johnson came within an eyelash of winning on the first ballot, pulling 49.5 percent of the vote, just short of the required majority. (Libertarian activist Austin Petersen and software magnate John McAfee came in second and third, respectively, with 21.3 percent and 14.1 percent.) With sixth-place finisher Kevin McCormick (and his 0.973 percent of the vote) booted from the second ballot, Johnson sailed through with 55.8 percent.
John Mcafee answered questions here on Slashdot in 2013. Reason's article includes a video of their interview this weekend with the party's official nominee Gary Johnson, who hopes to qualify for the nationally-televised presidential debates by drawing 15% of the support in national opinion polls.

Comments

Re:Other party than the republicrats?

[mrchaotica]

Technically the choice exists, but because first-past-the-post voting creates a kind of prisoners' dilemma it's unreasonable to expect people to make that choice.

Re:Why do we need US political topics?

[Rei]

Or the fact that the head of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party just stated that he thinks that Russia should obliterate the Faroe Islands as a show of force?

Re:Denied?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Marxist".

To call anybody in a mainstream US political activity marxist is a staggering misunderstanding as to what the term means.

Re:Denied?

[Rockoon]

No, it is not the answer. Because no third party ever has any real chance of winning important elections. It is essentially impossible because of the way the system is designed.

Tell that to the Democratic-Republicans, the Whigs, and the Federalists.

Its always been a 2 party system, but it hasn't always been these two parties.

The real collusion against it happening again is the requirement that a candidate get 15% in polling before being allowed in the presidential debates. Most polls dont include 3rd party candidates, therefore a third party candidate cannot get 15% in polls.