Information from NC political columnist Jack Betts's blog:
Fewer than 3,700 of North Carolina's voters are registered with the Libertarian Party. But there were about 19,000 straight Libertarian ticket voters. I honestly don't remember seeing that option. (Wouldn't have taken it if I had.)
This compares to 1,283,486 straight Democratic tickets and 881,856 straight Republican tickets. So it's not a lot, but it's something: straight tickets far in excess of party membership.
I'm going to try to keep an eye on the progress of libertarians in North Carolina; if they make a real break with the Republicans I'm sure we'll start to see public discussion along the liberty/security axis rather than we do now. Left-libertarian alliance and all that.
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