Barr: Time: Could third parties impact election?

[Clark Kent]

11-04-2008 07:59 AM
Time examines the role of third parties in the 2008 election and analyzes their impact:

One place Libertarians could make a difference is Barr’s home state of Georgia, even though he’s polling around just 1%-2% there. “I feel good about Georgia,” Barr told me after a campaign event in Savannah on Monday. The former Republican Congressman, who is on the ballot in 45 states, rattled off a list of other places where he’s hoping to have a good showing: North Carolina, New Hampshire, Indiana, Colorado, Ohio. But none of those states have received the attention from Barr that Georgia has: he’s spent the last days of the campaign there, culminating in a live-music thank-you party for volunteers and staff in Atlanta on Tuesday. It is a shrewd move, because if Obama somehow takes the red state from McCain (the Democrat trails by four points), Barr could claim he played a role in what would be the poster child for McCain’s national defeat.

His aides, however, are downplaying the idea that Barr or his energetic running mate Wayne Allyn Root will affect the national election. “I don’t know that we’ll be a difference-maker anywhere,” says Russ Verney, Barr’s campaign manager. “I’m not sure it’s going to be that close.”

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