The Libertarian Party
The Libertarian Party , founded in 1971 , is the third largest political company in the United States [ reference : Libertarian Party ] . Given that the U.S. is effectively a two - political party arrangement , the identification number of Libertarian voter , candidates , and elected officials constitute a diminutive fraction of the whole . The Libertarian Party take to have more than 250,000 registered elector [ reservoir : Libertarian Party ] . To put that into position , there are over 200 million eligible voters in the U.S. According to 2012 public opinion poll , just about 35 pct of voter ( or 70 million masses ) identify themselves as Democrats and another 35 percent as Republicans [ seed : Rasmussen Reports ] . But what about the remaining 30 percent ?
According to a 2006 report fix by the Cato Institute , a libertarian think tank , as much as 20 percent of the American electorate is libertarian in political philosophy , even if that ’s not reflected in thevoter registrationrecords [ source : Boaz ] . The story use poll act from several autonomous establishment to graph libertarian - leaning answers to standard poll question . But even with this goodish clod of the electorate , only one Libertarian Party presidential candidate has succeed more than 1 per centum of the democratic suffrage : Ed Clark back in 1980 [ source : Boaz ] .
The Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 2012 is Gary Johnson , the former Republican governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 . To better understand how the Libertarian Party political program differs from its Republican and Democratic opposition , here ’s a list of libertarian positions on key political issues :
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