*Former *small-l libertarian here. During all my libertarian years, I never voted for anyone on the Libertarian ticket. And I voted for only one Republican . . . Gerald Ford, because I couldn’t stand Carter. All the other times, I voted Democratic. This time around, I’m holding my nose and voting for Hillary, though I have little respect for her. I consider Trump to be entirely dangerous, as is Sanders. They’re both anti-intellectual populist demagogues who have hoodwinked large percentages of the voting population. Sanders’ principles are mostly wrong, and Trump has none.
Bryan Caplan’s awesome quiz (on my phone or I would link to it) places me as a “medium-core” libertarian.
I’m voting for Hillary. Partly out of pragmatism, and partly because she’s better on some libertarian issues than Johnson.
My hope is that she’s more libertarian than her campaign suggests, especially on economic issues. That’s one of the nice things about supporting a politician like her–hope springs eternal that her real positions are different from her campaign ones! 
Here’s the link: Libertarian Purity Test
The polls are showing a hella high number of undecideds:
From 10-20% depending on the poll. Voters really don’t like these choices.
Bob, I can’t take you seriously if you’re just going to quote selectively without mentioning her solid credentials as stated on her official party bio, such as this:
It’s not the hat that impresses me, it’s that she’s 63 but looks more like about 103 and seven weeks deceased. It must be all those incurable diseases she had, and having to put up with Becky. It is God’s will.
PPP finds that Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are taking more votes away from Clinton than Trump:
I’ll vote for the Libertarian candidate. Gary Johnson is not bad, but he has a strange way of speaking, and he isn’t the most charismatic guy, either. Jesse Ventura has said he might attempt to grab the nomination at the convention, if so this could be the best option for Libertarians. He is more likely to get press coverage, and would have no problem grappling with Trump. I have no interest in 80% of his program, but I do believe that he is solidly against wars and the drug war.
VEntura, like Johnson, is paper qualified to be President but his conspiracymongering has drained his credibility over the years.
“grappling”. Heh. I’d like to see that…
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will be the major party nominees. Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz were major contenders. I don’t think credibility is first and foremost in the minds of the unwashed masses.
In any case, there is a substantial untapped electorate on both the right and left who never vote, but would consider voting for a conspiracy theorist. Many people are conspiracy theorists.
Hmm the vast conspiracy theorist conspiracy?
Nate Silver kinda makes the same point I’ve made, that Republicans aren’t really likely to do better with a new candidate than they will just by backing Gary Johnson:
What, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?! Was he ever a Libertarian or even a libertarian before?!
(Sanders was never a Democrat before, but he was always a democrat.)
Ventura has actually always been a small-l libertarian, generally liberal on social issues, conservative on fiscal issues, and a noninterventionist abroad. So he at least deserves to be in the picture.
If Jesse Ventura were by some improbable stretch to be elected president, the six and a half billion people living in the rest of the world would collectively and simultaneously say “What the fuck?”
Moreso than if we elected Trump? At least Ventura has served and didn’t break the state he governed. Minnesota was a top state in many categories before Ventura, it continues to be after.
The attraction of Ventura, if we assume that the LP candidate can’t win, is that Ventura would probably get more press and votes than Johnson. So there’s that. Ventura is definitely a guy that could get the LP to the 5% threshold where they can get matching federal funds in 2020.
No, I think the global reaction to president trump would be more like “Oh, come on. Seriously?”