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Karen Tumulty asks in the Washington Post,

what label do you put on the political philosophy of a state that one year would legalize marijuana for recreational use and the next year recall two state senators who voted for stricter gun laws?

Readers of this blog might have an answer. So, it turns out, does Sen. Mark Udall:

Were a libertarian state small l when it comes to privacy issues, issues of reproductive freedom, gun ownership, who you worship, who you spend your life with, Udall said. Were a pro-environment state. We self-identify with environmentalists more than any other state in the nation. But were also very pro-business.

So now those small-l libertarian voters will have to decide whether they prefer a not-so-libertarian Democrat, a not-so-libertarian Republican, or a big-L Libertarian.

Read more on libertarian voters, especially in the Mountain West.

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Libertarian Choices in Colorado

CNN Receives Fire For Ignoring Libertarian Wyllie
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Tom Woods: Champion of Libertarian Dissent
Jeff Deist and Tom Woods to discuss Tom #39;s new book entitled #39;Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion. #39; http://www.TomWoodsRadio.com http://www.

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Chad Grimm is a 33-year-old health club manager running a long-shot campaign as the Libertarian candidate for governor of Illinois.

But his single-digit support could be the deciding factor.

The polling is very close, Christopher Mooney, the director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Springfield told FoxNews.com. So somebody who is pulling 5, 6 percent, it looks like they could have a big impact.

No one is disputing the fact that Grimm is a -- very -- long-shot candidate. But he's pulling enough support to affect the standing of the front-runners.

Recent polls show the two major party candidates, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner, in a tight race. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Quinn recently taking a slight lead. The Rothenberg Political Report rates the race as a toss up/tilt Republican.

This has opened the door for Grimm to play spoiler. A recent Chicago Tribune Poll had him capturing 5 percent of the vote -- votes which the Tribune notes likely would have gone to Rauner had Grimm not been a contender. Another poll had him capturing 6 percent.

Grimm told FoxNews.com he is not looking to be a spoiler, hes looking to win. He said that after dabbling in everything from acting in Los Angeles to owning health clubs in Illinois, he has found his true passion in the Libertarian movement. He says he will work to eliminate the state income tax, end Illinois war on guns and bring common sense solutions to the states problems.

I wanted to give Illinois the chance to, for once, to vote for a politician that is not bought and paid for, he said.

But Grimms potential to be a spoiler captured the attention of Illinois Republicans, who launched a legal battle to get him removed from the ballot.

According to the Associated Press, attorneys for the state GOP argued that thousands of signatures that qualified Grimm for the ballot were invalid.

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Long-shot Libertarian candidate may tilt Ill. gov race - VIDEO: What Senate majority would mean for GOP - Florida gov ...

Libertarian Adrian Wyllie got shut out from the governor's debate at Broward College on Wednesday, so he went to a Holiday Inn Express instead.

Wyllie planned to set up shop in a conference room, a production crew in tow, and answer the same questions posed to Republican Gov. Rick Scott and former-Republican-governor-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist. Wyllie planned to have his crew perform some technical wizardry and re-cut the debate to make it appear as if he were onstage. Then he planned to post it on the web.

Kind of poetic: A Libertarian taking liberties with reality to protest a debate co-sponsored by a press association that tramped down on free speech.

"The reason I'm being excluded has nothing to do with the public interest, and everything to do with protecting a corrupt, good-old-boy duopoly," Wyllie told me Wednesday.

One day earlier, a federal judge struck down Wyllie's bid to take part. The two groups sponsoring the debate (the Florida Press Association and Leadership Florida) set a 15-percent threshold in a September poll as the benchmark, and Wyllie who's been polling as high as 12 percent fell short.

"They keep moving the bar just out of reach of third-party candidates," Wyllie said. "Back in 2006, it was seven percent. Now it's 15 percent. If I was at 18 percent, I'm sure they'd move the threshold to 20 percent."

I feel bad for the guy and worse for democracy in general. And I feel especially ashamed that a press association which is supposed to support a free exchange of ideas acts more like a bouncer for the establishment, keeping out ideas that might be too different or radical.

"The major political parties and media insiders are controlling what Floridians can hear," Wyllie said. "If I was a fringe candidate that everyone could get a chuckle out of, they probably wouldn't mind. But the fact that I'd be the only one telling a lot of truth, that's what they're terrified of."

I'm not saying I like or agree with Wyllie's platform, which includes eradicating property taxes for homesteaded Floridians, slashing the state budget by 30 percent, blocking federal regulatory oversight of Florida-only businesses, legalizing marijuana, allowing gay marriage and granting unfettered access to guns. He told me that philosophically he'd be OK with legalized cocaine and prostitution, too.

I'm just saying that with all the negativity and scripted talking points coming from Scott and Crist, voters could have used Wyllie's fresh air. It would have been interesting and perhaps illuminating to see how Scott and Crist reacted to the live grenade in their midst. (UPDATE: Although this debate did give us plenty of unscripted fresh air, in the form of Crist's fan and the swirling controversy it triggered, with Scott initially refusing to take the stage at the start in protest.)

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Blocked from debate, Wyllie finds room at the (Holiday) inn