The Gary Johnson Campaign

The September 27, 1960 New York Times reported about the first televised presidential debate. The vice President Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy face each other. About 70 million American viewers

Third party candidates have the potential to play a significant role in influencing the outcome of elections. In 2000, Ralph Nader, the green party candidate for President, was said to have handed the election to George W. Bush after he received 97,488 votes in the swing state of Florida (Baughman). Ralph Nader was accused of taking votes away from Al Gore, evidently costing him the election. Most recently, third party candidate Gary Johnson was accused of swinging the election in Hillary Clinton’s favor when he received 9% of the popular vote in the state of New Mexico.

Everybody knows all about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at this point, but with these two candidates failing to satisfy the American people, more citizens are beginning to look towards using their votes for other candidates, rather than supporting the lesser of two evils. With so many people losing faith in both their candidates and their political parties, it is important that the public know all about the two leading third party candidates, namely Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party. They experience reasonable success considering their lack of media exposure and mainstream appeal, and this can be attributed to their relevant and well thought out platforms. Stein and Johnson share a fair amount of common

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz on Friday crisscrossed Iowa on a five-stop campaign event swing through the state as he continues to built a strong support amongst Republican voters with just 100 days left into the Iowa caucus. The latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll released on Friday has Cruz in third place with 10% in Iowa. Ben Carson is in first place in Iowa with 28% while Donald Trump is now in second with 19%. Even though Cruz is positioned to earn one of the ‘three tickets out of Iowa,’ he still needs to snatch up more voters from the other Republican candidates who are vying for the same fraction of evangelicals conservative that are taking away votes from Cruz.

Half of what is spent for court laws and in jails results from the revenue coming from drugs. If marijuana becomes legal, approximately 1.8 million people per year could potentially be let off the hook, which would allow $70 billion to go elsewhere than to pay to put people behind bars and on probation or parole. Granted not all of the $70 billion spent yearly is for marijuana, it’s also being used to purchase other illegal narcotics such as steroids, amphetamines, crack, cocaine, heroin, and hallucinogens, it is still a huge amount of money to throw away, all because of a substance that an individual consumes. Gary Johnson personally feels that alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, but believes that we as a nation should not be telling our citizens what they can and cannot put into their bodies, especially while we have medical professionals encouraged to prescribe addictive and deadly painkillers (ontheissues.org, Gary Johnson on Drugs). Overall, Gary Johnson stands strongly for legalizing marijuana and believes that if we utilize some of the money we already have budgeted towards The War on Drugs, we could reduce our incarceration rates, drug related diseases and incidents of corruption. In this case, it will be able to help save money, which will allow at least some of those nearly four million incarcerated individuals to be able to contribute to

We hold debates between the Republican and Democrats before the primaries, and then we hold debates between the two remaining presidential candidates. Upon first glance it may appear that the presidential debates are held to get to know the candidate’s positions on the various issues that are important to the American people; however, the format of the debates make it difficult to accomplish that task. Instead, it is more plausible that these debates are held in order to discover what the candidates are like personally because the debates provide ample opportunities for us to discover the candidate’s values. Ultimately, we want to find out the values that these potential presidents have because we want someone we trust to lead the

As an accomplished tri-athlete, mountain climber and health fanatic, Gary Earl Johnson, would be one of the healthiest presidents to ever be elected in the United States. (NBC News) What do we know about Gary Johnson? Where does he stand on repealing the Affordable Care Act, taxes, gun control, and the legalization of marijuana? His viewpoint on these controversial issues is intriguing and make him an interesting and viable third party candidate for the presidency.

Effective election campaigns have always relied on the candidates’ ability to raise money. Even in the days before television, radio and the internet, it still took money to get the word out to the people in a far-flung land. However, today’s candidates are faced with raising larger and larger amounts of money with each new election that comes along.

However this descion is actually not as bad as it may sound. Individuals who want to use marijuana have to get it through ilegal means, therefore increasing crime rates, as well as tax money being wasted on the arresting of these individuals who are not a threat to our society. Johnson and weld belive that the ffedral government should not stand in the way of the legalization of marijuana and that each state should have the right to make their own descion on the medical and recreation use of cannabis just like they have done with alcohol for many years. The use of medicl marijuana has proven to be less addictive than the current pain medication, and johnson believes that medical research on this substance should be allowed. the legalization of marijuana will help stop black markets and the crime rates that come with it. Along with the lower crime rates, comes the huge amount of money being saved from the individuals who would have gotten arrested or incarcerrated for this minor crime. So, not only does this desicon help lower crime rates, it would also help the economy of the

In order to have a government that is run by people; specifically, people that must choose a candidate to vote for, its seems fit that it would be important that there be adequate means of illustrating each candidate’s positions on all of the issues that the constituents care about. Presidential debates are the means of showcasing a candidates’ policies to the nation and at the same time they allow the citizens in the democratic society to make a more informed decision about their vote than they otherwise would have without a debate.

They are often asked the same questions and their responses typically draw in or push away voters. Debates can show voters what the candidate will be like as their representative and foreshadow the major decisions that the candidate would make in office. While the Lincoln-Douglas debates are remembered as the first major political debates in the United States, most elections occurred with some sort of discussion between

Gary Johnson has experience as a popular two-team governor. Yes, Hillary was a senator and a secretary state, but since she was that, why hasn’t she done any of the things she now promises to do? Yes, Trump is a successful businessman, he has never been in a public office or form of government. Gary has already been in the government so he knows how to

Jill Stein took some money and funded a recount (Marans). Many people may not know this but the citizens of the U.S can overturn and impeach Donald Trump. Around 40% of U.S is in favor of impeaching Trump. In the Senate, 33 seats are up for a re-election and the U.S will need votes from 67 Senators to drive away Trump from office (Cesca). The U.S is already slowly falling apart with the current U.S president. So why not do a recount and have a better president? Gary Johnson offers the best disposition to be president. With everyone hating Trump, there is wide window for him getting impeached, there is a re-election, and Gary Johnson becomes President. When he becomes President, everyone can expect a lot more freedom and little more finance than they have now.

Stein, Johnson, and Trump all agree that all party candidates should be part of debates. Clinton's stance is unknown. I believe that all third parties should have the same pedestal that

    Gary Earl Johnson is the Libertarian Party nominee to be president. Gary was born on January 1, 1953 in Minot, North Dakota. Gary is the son of Lorraine B. and Earl W. Johnson. In 1971 Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gary attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. Gary met his future wife, Denise “Dee” Simms while he was in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He made his own business in 1976 called Big J Enterprises that dealt with door-to-door handyman jobs. His business was weak until he made a large contract from Intel’s expansion in Rio Rancho. Gary eventually grew the business