As my 20-hour day winds down and the caffeine finds its way out of my body, I want to reflect on this day and give you one final update on the Boone County results and national numbers.
At last check, John McCain and Mitt Romney were separated by only ONE vote. So let that be a lesson to all who have ever said that their vote doesn’t matter. Ha! I hope someone out there said that and would have voted for Romney or McCain, deciding the Boone County election for them.
Barack Obama was outpacing Hillary Clinton in Boone County votes, but has been declared the “not winner” by both the Associated Press and St. Louis Post Dispatch. Meaning Hillary Clinton was declared the winner of Missouri, but the Democrats’ votes are divided between the candidates proportionately and Obama received 47% of the vote, so Missouri was essentially another draw for the Democrats.
I finally found some Libertarians in Columbia and Boone County, but as one person commented on my last post, “they’re the ones holding Ron Paul signs”. Every Libertarian I spoke with told me they voted for Ron Paul, a former Libertarian, but they all plan to vote Libertarian in the general election.
After speaking with a few Columbia Libertarians, I was able to get a hold of Libertarian Presidential hopeful Daniel Imperato. He was born in Boston and has the traditional “chowda” Bostonian accent, even though he currently resides in West Palm Beach, FL. Imperato claims he will begin a full-fledged campaign tomorrow and seems to be reaching for the stars with his presidential aspirations.
He believes he will attract not just Libertarians, but the 22% of Americans who identify themselves as Independents, the Hispanic population, and the Christian conservatives. Essentially, Imperato thinks of himself as a Huckabee-Obama-Cesar Chavez hybrid.
Perhaps Imperato can unite America and bring the change he believes is only possible through means of electing a third party candidate, only time will tell. But one thing is for sure, he probably, most likely, almost positively, with little doubt not even scratch the surface of America’s 2008 Presidential election. I didn’t even know his name until today. How many of you did?
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