Lawson wins!!!!

[Peace&Freedom]

This is a little outside the 3-point line. Some of our other candidates are from half court and some even beyond that. Again, Lawson can do it, but he'll need to work incredibly hard and raise tons of money.

Successful strategies to WIN elections begin by focusing only on situations where there is a HIGH PROBABILITY of victory, not merely 'possible if everything goes okay' (PEGO). Running in open seat races, with appropriate funds and backing, on a line that matches the voting patterns of the district/area, are essential to this. We can't settle for anything less than high percentage election races---in the case of PEGOs we will lose every time. Rand Paul is in that high probability position IF he can get past the GOP gatekeepers to win the nomination. Schiff, maybe is in the same situation, if he can win the primary over the wrestling CEO. But Kokesh, Lawson, most of the others, NO.

Let's not turn the liberty candidate movement into the second coming of the third party movement. The LP runs candidates everywhere we can not with any expectation we are going to win the election, but to ensure the party agenda and brand is represented in the campaign and on the ballot. To be distinctive and focused on victory, the Paul-like candidates need to pick good candidates like Lawson, AND pick their spots as to when to run them. The spot picking is not happenning, which means a whole lot of "incredibly hard work" and energy is being wasted on races that should never had been contested in the first place. This will burn out or marginalize the movement, like others before it, unless we smarten up.