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| Subject: Libertarian pizza guy may sway US politics Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:27 am | |
| Most evenings, Sean Haugh is a pizza deliveryman.
But every other week or so, the Libertarian Party's Senate nominee in North Carolina opens a few craft beers on the counter of the bar in his campaign manager's basement. He takes deep gulps from a pint glass bearing an image of Austrian-school economist Murray Rothbard and expresses his everyman frustrations with the current political system into a video camera.
So far, Haugh's campaign barely exists anywhere but on YouTube. But it is doing surprisingly well in a high-stakes Senate contest in which candidates and outside groups have already spent more than US$15 million (NZ$17m).
Four polls lately put his support somewhere between 8 and 11 per cent — not enough to suggest a realistic possibility of winning, but conceivably enough to affect the outcome of the race. The same surveys show the margin between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan and her GOP challenger, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, at six points or less.
"If it ends up being a one- or two-point race, Democrats could keep the Senate because of Sean Haugh," said Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling (PPP), which showed the Libertarian at 11 per cent in its May and June surveys.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/10240853/Libertarian-pizza-guy-may-sway-US-politics/ |
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