Political blogger and watchman Cory Heidelberger crunched the numbers for us, and found that voter registration for the Libertarian Party has jump by 9.55%! But don’t get too excited, Freedom Lovin’ Folks… there’s still only 2,605 of y’all. That’s only half-a-percent of registered voters.
As he reports:
“There are 279,331 registered Republicans, 152,709 Democrats, 139,874 independents, and 2,605 Libertarians. If Libertarians can continue their annual growth rate of 9.55%, their ranks will top 100,000 in South Dakota in 2062.”
So keep the faith! In forty years you might have a voting bloc the Republicans will have to take seriously!
Honestly, we’re kinda surprised you’re not doing better. We know some good people working hard for Libertarian-leaning groups, and with the post-Trump weirdness in the GOP, there are plenty of younger folks that stammer a “well, I’m kinda Libertarian” when pressed on their political values. Maybe you kids just aren’t registered? Or maybe you register as an R or D strategically to better vote in primaries?
That might be wishful thinking.
Whatever your take on the issues, get educated and then get involved, m’kay? See you at the polls!