
Our last five polls have have showed that the race has changed a lot since our first Libertarian Candidates Poll. It is now drawing down to the last month before the national convention. There will only be time for two more polls, including this one, before the Libertarian Party delegates meet in Orlando to vote for the nominee. We are going to stick with our top three candidates Gary Johnson, Austin Petersen, and John McAfee because only these three have a shot at the nomination.
Only Gary Johnson, Austin Petersen, and John McAfee will be in this and future Libertarian Presidential Candidates polls. They have consistently polled as the top three candidates, respectively, and there’s no evidence to suggest a fourth candidate skyrocketing into third place. Until now, every other candidate that we’ve included as 4th or 5th hasn’t broken double digits*. Now that we’re in the home stretch it’s time to weed out those candidates and restrict our poll to the top three. This way we can see where those lower polling candidates’ support flows to and better gauge who is really in first, second, and third place.
This change to the top three saw Austin Petersen absorb almost all of that support in our last Libertarian Presidential Candidates poll. He nearly tied with Gary Johnson for first place. John McAfee also gained a significant amount of support and surged several points. With it drawing down to the last few weeks before the convention it’s important to see if these trends hold.
Which Libertarian Presidential Candidate are you currently supporting?
This poll will expire at midnight on May 15th.
*Darryl W. Perry once broke double digits but that was not legitimate. Perry has been caught buying votes in online polls and has been excluded from our polls for cheating.
**Please Note: This Libertarian Presidential Candidates poll cannot and will not include all of the candidates running. There is currently a top tier of candidates based on fundraising, name recognition, website design, social media strength, and debate performances. Any candidate without these factors cannot hope to be an effective Libertarian Party Presidential nominee and therefore cannot be included in this poll. There is also not a None Of The Above option as it is counterproductive. NOTA will not be the Libertarian Party’s nominee.
Perry’s vote “purchase” was not during the duration of your poll. It was stupid of him to do, but it did not affect your poll.
Why must we register with a social media site to vote? Why must we be exposed to spam to vote? It degrades and makes this poll questionable.
It’s a private website. Are you a libertarian? Because I assume you would be ok with a private site requiring what it wants to require…
They are free to do as they wish, just as I’m free to tell them my opinion, and just as I also free to not participate … which if enough people do not participate then it leads one to question the accuracy of the poll, yes?
I agree. I tried to vote but was forced to register and log in. I declined. I’m sure they are worthy of following but, like most, I am too over-saturated as it is!
Can you please remove one of my votes? I have voted in a few of these polls and may have been able to vote twice in this one. I seam to remember voting in it last week. The reason it may have let me vote twice is because I was using a different computer. Thank you for correcting this for me.
I was once Facebook friends with Petersen and then he was posting messages attacking and insulting people and using anti-gay slurs in order to do so. That juvenile bigotry makes him unfit. He’s more conservative than libertarian and should go back to the Republicans.
Interesting considering the fact Austin is very pro-gay rights. Also, if you think Austin is “more conservative than libertarian” then you’re probably not Libertarian, because Gary Johnson has far more non-libertarian positions.
Not everyone who thinks Austin is immature supports Johnson. It’s about a 50/50 split.
Great Austin.Split the party before it gets off the ground. No executive experience and 35 years old. Yea, that’s electable. The bitch of it is I like the guy. Great future. It’s looking more and more like techies will rule the world and rugged individuals who get their hands dirty for a living will never have a voice in government. Johnson is the best shot. If I wanted a guy like Austin I could have supported Rubio.
How many people have voted? I can’t find it listed. Since this is the 6th round it seems like that would be pertinent information.
In the past about 5,500 people voted in the end per round. So estimate (since there are 4-5 days left with more people voting when it’s originally posted) about 3,500-4,000 people have voted.
Libertarian Party is the only choice left.
No point in voting between two Democrats.
I like McAffee best. He is funny.
When will the next poll start or if it has where is a link?
If I can’t write in Perry, I vote NOTA.