TeleKat
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GOP Candidate Gary Johnson
Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson
From serious candidate to hipster candidate with flip flops and a 'cooool' college kid message. Crowd surfing, chilling at Occupy Wall Street, just in general became a populist. Their Youtube campaign commercials were embarrassing. I still voted for him. Probably will again. I just want him to be a serious candidate realistically focusing on campaign issues. NO expectation of him winning, but if he were to draw well, he could put at least a few elected representatives in play.
Yeah, I think I can agree.
One thing to bear in mind though: he did switch parties entirely. With that comes a radical change in strategy. Just a fact in politics. He didn't change positions, mind you, but a change of some sort was necessary imo. The GOP voting base and the LP voting base are very different. Libertarians tend to attract younger voters while Republicans tend to attract older voters. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that he's trying to come across as more laid back and "cool" as opposed to acting uptight like during the GOP primaries. But I do think he took it a liiitle too far last election, which would definitely be an area he should improve for the upcoming election.