Nate Silver (Aug 29) puts Johnson’s support at 9%, and 46% would vote Democratic if they couldn’t vote for Johnson. 131 million voted in 2008, so a conservative estimate of the number of Democratic-leaning Johnson voters is 9% x 46% x 125 million = 5.175 million.
In progress Fri, Sept 2
No Minimum Wage
Should the government raise the federal minimum wage? Gary Johnson’s answer: No, and eliminate all federal wage standards. (iSideWith)
No federal health care
“A health care insurance system that is privately owned and managed is the best approach to solving our health care problems.” (wikipedia)
No gun control
“Restricting guns makes things less safe, that’s the camp that I’m in.” (reason.com) But he does believe in restrictions for criminals and the mentally ill.
No corporate taxes
“As president, Johnson would eliminate income tax and corporate tax and abolish the IRS” (thestreet.com)
No net neutrality
Gary Johnson is dead set against “net neutrality,” saying, “There is nothing wrong with the Internet that I want the government to fix.” (inquisitr.com)
Citizens United !
“Any restriction on campaign spending violates the first amendment.” (iSideWith)
50 Reasons why Bernie Sanders Supporters Should Oppose A Gary Johnson Candidacy
Polling second coming into the convention, was a guy named Austin Petersen. His go-to applause line: “I want gay couples to defend their marijuana fields with fully automatic weapons.”
[Johnson] was roundly booed by much of the audience. The first boos came when Johnson admitted that, given the chance, he would have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Boooooooo! A second hail of raspberries came when Johnson, alone among the candidates, said he thought a driver’s license was a reasonable thing to require before allowing someone to drive. “I’d like to see some demonstration of basic competency,” Johnson acknowledged, rather meekly.
I’ve always offered my support to gun ownership and the Second Amendment. Always. Is it something that I talk about? Actually, I never talk about it. So, I guess, draw your own conclusions.
Do you support any laws that would restrict gun ownership?
I do not.
Well, first of all, in the polls that I have been in, I actually take more votes away from Hillary than Trump.
“We want Stitches-R-Us,” he said. “We would have Gallbladders-R-Us. We would have advertised pricing with advertised outcomes.”
Gary Johnson Believes That Corporations Should Pay No Tax
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3380880/libertarian-gary-johnson-5-issues-he-believes-in/#gcwlgJi3dFQwugF8.99
“Look, we should make it as easy as possible for somebody who wants to come into this country and work to be able to get a work visa,” Johnson has said. “A work visa should entail a background check and a social security card that taxes get paid. They are not murderers and rapists.”
The Internet Should Be Unregulated, With No “Net Neutrality”
He favors no restrictions on campaign donations (complementing Citizens’ United).
Johnson favors for-profit prisons. He doesn’t want to raise the minimum wage. In fact, he would abolish it.
