Libertarian Townhall Aug 4, 2016

[mkpunk]

Originally Posted by dexter75

It would be either Trump, Hillary or Johnson. Not a chance in hell a Republican majority House votes in Hillary and most GOP leadership hates Trump...that leaves Johnson. Only thing that would change that is if someone like Cruz ran as an Independent and he picked up the most votes behind Hillary and Trump. However, its Aug and everyday that goes by means less and less chance that a Republican launching a run could even get on the ballot in all states.

Yes but there are starting to be house republicans who actually support Clinton. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us...anna.html?_r=0 The Republicans Who Support Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump - The Atlantic

[mkpunk]

Originally Posted by mkpunk

In the middle of the town hall and I somewhat agree with most of what he says. I'm still waiting for the Fair Tax to be addressed since I am highly against that highly regressive tax disguised as a progressive tax.

I went back and watched the first townhall from mid-June and that is was where his brief comments for the Fair Tax was. It was the garden variety support such as remove the IRS, remove DC lobbying, etc. Nothing mentioned about how regressive it is towards the middle and working class though Chris Cuomo was said to be "getting into the weeds" when asking Johnson on the issues. That said, I did contact the Johnson webpage on this to try and see if

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by dexter75

It would be either Trump, Hillary or Johnson. Not a chance in hell a Republican majority House votes in Hillary and most GOP leadership hates Trump...that leaves Johnson. Only thing that would change that is if someone like Cruz ran as an Independent and he picked up the most votes behind Hillary and Trump. However, its Aug and everyday that goes by means less and less chance that a Republican launching a run could even get on the ballot in all states.

You're right, but a small point here:

When The House elects a president, they give each state a vote. All the representatives from each state huddle together and they get one vote.
Hillary won't carry enough states - so she'll be out. The winner will be the first candidate to 26. I think Johnson has a very good chance of winning.