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The eleventh issue of the [[LP News]] publication gives the results from the recent election.  The "Political Perspective" article talks about the re-election of Richard Nixon and the implications of that. There is an article looking back on the first year of the party.  Results from a meeting of the LP National Executive Committee are listed and explained.
==HOSPERS VOTE PROJECTED AT 5,000+==


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With official, final figures still unavailable, due to the lethargic nature of government election officials and the low priority given to write-in votes, we are unable to report with certainty the actual number of votes that will officially be reported as having been cast for the Hospers-Nathan ticket. All available evidence indicates that the final total will be in excess of 5,000 however, which means that the real total is probably in excess of 10,000, as write-in votes are not even tallied in many states.


==Outline==
As expected, the LP ticket did the best in the two states  where Hospers and Nathan  were listed on the ballot. In Washington, the State Election Commission has stated that the H-N ticket pulled about 1,400 votes; all returns except absentee ballots are included in this figure. In Colorado, final and complete returns give the LP ticket 1,108 votes. In each of the two states, the Hospers-Nathan vote works out to slightly better than one vote out of every 1,000 cast, which is not bad, in view of the fact that LP membership in each state was less than 75 as of Election Day.
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'''[[John Hospers|Hospers]] vote projected at 5,000+'''
In California, where there was a write-in effort, returns are available only from Los Angeles County, where the LP ticket drew over 300 votes. California LP lea ers are confident that the statewide total will be near or above their goal of 1,000 votes.


'''[[Steve Symms|SYMMS]] WINS IN IDAHO'''
Starting from a three-state total ih the area of 3,500 votes, we can add 50 votes from Utah, 150 from Texas, and 95 from three precincts in Anchorage, Alaska (Alaska total will no doubt be considerably higher). Reports from other states where an organized write-in effort was conducted are not yet available; it seems reasonable to assume that at least another 1,200 votes were cast for Hospers and Nathan in the 44 other states, thus bringing the nationwide total to at least 5,000. Actually,
this is a conservative estimate; the reported total may be in excess of 7,000, and might even be 10,000, although we doubt it. We hope to get final, complete figures from Congressional Quarterly, which tallies these figures, by early next spring.


'''IN OTHER RACES...'''
The raw figures are not of as much interest as some of the data that can be gleaned from them, however.


'''IMPORTANT NOTICE'''
First, and perhaps of most immediate inter est, is the fact that the LP did better, in terms of votes, than several other, better-known and more experienced minority parties, in the two states where all significant minority parties were on the ballot ( Washington and Colorado).


'''POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE VIII. FOUR MORE YEARS'''
In Washington, there were a total of eight parties on the ballot -- the two major parties, us, the American Party, the  Communist Party, the Peoples Party, the Socialist Labor Party, and the Socialist Workers Party. In Colorado, the Prohibition Party was also on the ballot, bringing the total to nine.


'''LP MATERIAL IN STOCK'''
In Washington, we ran third of the six smaller parties -- behind the American and Peoples Parties, but ahead of the Communists and the two Socialist Parties. In Colorado, we ran fourth out of seven -- behind the American, Peoples and Socialist Labor Parties, ahead of the SWP, CP, and Prohibition Party.
 
This indicates that given an opportunity to reach the voters, we can do at least as well as other minority parties. In other words, we a viable minority party (and, indeed, have been recognized as such by virtually every political analyst who has commented on minority party activity this year).
 
This data also inaicates that if we can get on the ballot, we can draw about 20 votes for every party member we have in a given state. Thus, if we can increase our membership to 32,000 by 1976 (a conservative estimate; see article elsewhere in this issue), and can get the election laws revised to eliminate discrimination against minority parties, we can pull 640,000 votes in 1976 -- which could easily make us the most significant minority party in America, in terms of numbers (we're already the most significant, in terms of ideas). A good goal, it seems to your editor, is a cool million votes in in '76.
 
Another way of looking at the data from the '72 election is to see how our candidates for state and local office performed.
 
In Colorado, we were able to get two LP candidates on the ballot -- Pipp Boyls for Congress, and Hue Futch for State Legislature. Both Pipp and Hue pulled about 1½% of the vote, in their respective races {2,000 votes out of 150,000 and 240 out of 16,000 respectively), even though both ran with practically no money, and very few campaign workers {Hue had about $120, and six workers; Pipp had about $1,000 and about 20 workers). These figures indicate that even with limited resources, we can draw 1½% of the vote, which would work out to 1.2 million votes, nationwide in an election where 80 million votes are cast. And we should have about as many members in each Congressional District, on the average, throughout the nation in '76 as we had in Pipp's District this year.
 
A third statistic of interest. In the states where Hospers and Nathan were on the ballot, our cost per vote received was about 50¢ -­ as compared to about $1 per vote for Nixon, McGovern and Schmitz. And minority parties usually get less votes per dollar spent than the major parties! This 50¢ per vote figure also held true for Pipp Boyls and Hue Futch.
 
All these figures indicate that if we can get members, money, and ballot listing, the LP has a great future in store. Whether this future potential is realized is up to you.
 
 


'''BITS & PIECES'''
*INFORMATION ON [[Society for Individual Liberty|SIL]] AND [[Reason Magazine|REASON]] ENCLOSED
*GREEN SHEET ADDENDA
*TREASURY DEPT COMPILING GUN-OWNER LIST
*SILVER SALES AGENTS WANTED
*[[Lewis F. Powell|POWELL]] MEMORANDUM ON FREE ENTERPRISE
*the year one
*EXECCOMM VOTES


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