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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:46:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:

> > If so, do they accept [Federal funding]?
> 
> No. The LP is the Party of Principle.

  D'oh!  It's a shame that there isn't an alternative for them, though I
applaud their self-reliance.

> > It seems they've been around for quite
> > some time, and with a fair amount of support, but in my adult life I've
> > never knowingly seen any campaign material for them (other than online).
> 
> I see it all the time. But then people who drive Volvos see more Volvos on
> the road because they notice them. It is, however rare to see national level
> TV advertising, that stuff isn't cheap.

  Living in Pittsburgh, I don't see much advertisement locally, but "an
absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence."  I see countless local
placards naming this or that candidate without specifying party affiliation;
perhaps some of them are LP.

     Dave!



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  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) Used to, at the general level, although the bar has been raised to 5% of the popular vote. Still does, for the primaries. (...) No. The LP is the Party of Principle. (...) I see it all the time. But then people who drive Volvos see more Volvos (...) (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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