Gary Johnson     Libertarian     New Mexico     1,237,720     0.98%     0     James P. Gray     California
Jill Stein     Green     Massachusetts     445,398     0.35%     0     Cheri Honkala     Pennsylvania
Virgil Goode     Constitution     Virginia     117,810     0.09%     0     Jim Clymer     Pennsylvania
Roseanne Barr     Peace and Freedom     Hawaii     60,541     0.05%     0     Cindy Sheehan     California
Rocky Anderson     Justice     Utah     39,517     0.03%     0     Luis J. Rodriguez     California
Tom Hoefling     America’s     Iowa     36,297     0.03%     0     Jonathan D. Ellis     Tennessee
Other     150,843     0.12%     —     Other     —

Hm.  Going down this list… Gary Johnson was trying hard for that one percent.  He failed to hurdle that psychological mark.  He is now wavering on his two election commitment.

Here’s one way to look at Jill Stein’s results:  Stein may have gotten just under 400,000 votes (0.3% of all votes), with her name on 85% of ballots, but that figure is actually over double those received by the Green Party presidential candidates in 2008, and over three times those received in the 2004 elections.
Yeah, but let’s face it.  She’s in the shadow of Ralph Nader’s results in those elections.  To be fair, had the Party wanted to sacrifice easy results for serious ideological trudging, they would have gone for Roseanne Barr…

… And this is the interesting result. Roseanne Barr beat out Rocky Anderson.  Pretty badly.  Barr had only 18.5 percent potential seeing her on the ballot; Anderson 28.1 percent.  Dissecting these results — the difference between point oh five and point oh three percent of the vote against that backdrop — well, even as Barr was a bit of a joke, she had the power of a name brand “Peace and Freedom Party” behind her, and… Anderson’s Justice Party?  Interesting to see how it’s come together:
The other result for the party:
U.S. Senator for Utah – Daniel Geery^[15] 7,444 votes (0.81%)
Does that make it worth more than the PandF Party, which needed a stunt candidate with Barr?  Who’s to say?

Virgil Goode… practcial post election day concerns:  On his agenda for the day: “Rest up and make sure all the signs are off the highways.”

Okay… the other candidates out in that wikipedia “other” category, preliminary from Village Voice.

Randall Terry, an anti-abortion activist, got 8,700 votes.
Richard Duncan, an Ohio ex-postal worker who wants to avert nuclear attacks by terrorists, got 6,400 votes.
Tom Stevens, the “objectivist” party candidate and a historian, got 3,500 votes.
Stewart Alexander, the socialist party USA candidate, got 2,000 votes.
Pete Lindsay, an anti war activist, got 1,520 votes.
Merlin Miller, who says ‘are you tired of the two-party system,’ got 1,475 votes.
And then we come to Jeff Boss, our favorite candidate who believes the National Security Agency paid people off to allow the 9/11 attacks to happen. He got 263 votes. Impressive!

I deleted the comment on (ugh) Hoefling, because they got his impact wrong by a mile… if wikipedia is to be believed.  So… I’ll have to find my results elsewhere, I suppose.

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