I take small comfort from the fact that percentage-wise, I ran a snatch-hair ahead of our 2005 candidate. But not enough to matter.

It's been pretty well demonstrated that that's how well we do, whether we campaign or not. Oh, well, I can say I've done it.

huqw

I called it right down the line.

huqw

I stepped into the voting machine on West 52nd St. last night and there were at least three Libertarian candidates for mayor, one under the other. Besides JRI, Jim Leczynski (sp?) and Julius Clifton (sp?). Very confusing.

I thought JRI was the only candidate. In the New York Times profiles of the candidates, only JRI was profiled. (Although now that I look closely at the Times's photo of the voting machine lineup, all three candidates are there, although only JRI is highlighted in yellow.)

Jim was running for Public Advocate, and John Clifton for Comptroller. But, yes, the ballot is confusing. Intentionally so.

huqw

I was wondering why the mayoral candidate line took a dogleg down, but now I realize that if I'd read across from the left I'd have seen that the other two were not mayoral candidates but were on the horizontal lines for the other positions, so I was looking at the Libertarian vertical column. Very confusing.

I can see how easy it might have been for those poor senior citizens in Palm Beach County to be confused by the presidential ballots in 2000.

We did.

It felt weird.

I miss the curtain.

Joseph, I was hoping you'd win. But, good for you for trying.

Good thing that Bloomberg spent the big 100 million bucks, hmmm? Any less and he'd have lost for sure!

But, yeah, I spent WAAAAAAAY less per vote than Miguelito did. I'm a lot more charming.

huqw

next to the candidates' names.

Very satisfying to draw the lever back and register your vote with a bang.

Same feeling I had. Thanks for representing, Joseph.

Poor organizational skills. Period.

Joseph was treated fairly by the BOE. Row J, ya gotta fit it on the machine somewhere. Where was his "support"? I be puzzled that Joseph claims that LPers just always lose, so no reason to actually campaign or take it vaguely serious-like.

A top-row ballot line would maybe have scored me another 50 votes.

It's been demonstrated, all over the country, that a community is Libertarian-friendly, or it's not. NYC is not. I actually did better, percentage-wise, than any other Libertarian candidate for Mayor of NYC, altho Audrey Silk had a higher vote total in 2005 because the voter turnout was far, far higher that year.

Libertarians are lazy, and I knew that going in, so I expected very little help. I reproach myself for not working harder, but we got the message out, and I'm pleased with how I conducted myself in debates, on TV, and interacting with individual voters.

huqw

by the time my eyes scanned all the way down the row to the Libertarian column I'd become disoriented and mixed up between the vertical (office) and horizontal (party) axes.

Plus, it's easier to follow the politcians' circular logic that way!