Gary Johnson is a Libertarian Party presidential nominee who is convinced President Barack Obama will win Mitt Romney to a second term.
“I think Obama’s going to win, that’s what I think,” Johnson stated to POLITICO in an interview. “[My vote is] really spread out, meaning I don’t think there’s any state that I’m going to do better than another.”
“There’s nothing,” Johnson said. “I would ask that everybody look at it and maybe recognize that this is phenomenal that we spent $2 million and may get 5 percent of the general — now maybe it doesn’t turn out that way at all — but that we spent $2 million bucks and here we are playing in a game that by all accounts we should not be playing in, so no. Yeah, you make mistakes every single day, but the reality is: Holy cow.”
A CNN Ohio poll revelead on Nov. 2 had Obama at 47 percent, Republican nominee Mitt Romney at 44 percent and Johnson at 5 percent. He has raised about $2.3 million, has about $35,000 on hand and finds himself in approximately $227,000 in debt, as per the Center for Responsive Politics.
Hilton In downtown Washington , Johnson provided an interview from the lobby of the Capital Hilton. He will take part in the Free and Equal Elections Foundation debate with Green Party nominee Jill Stein on Monday night, next he will come back to Albuquerque, N.M., to watch the election returns Tuesday.
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“Either one of them are elected, although they talk a big game: Continued unsustainable spending,” he said.
He noted that media did not center attention to the results of polls which do not include third-party candidates.
“You go to the website,” he said. “CNN: ‘Obama 50, Romney 48, but when GaryJohnson’s name is included, he’s at 6.’ Well, come on. Where is that being reported?”
“The frustration is, if I were just given the credit that I’m due, which is a three-times mention or a five-times mention for every time Romney is mentioned 47 times, I think if you would go back three months and give me the credit that I would be due if this were a discrimination lawsuit, that I would be the next president of the United States because of the interest that would have generated,” he discussed later.
Johnson’s vision is “to catch everybody with their pants down tomorrow,” he said. However he is not quite assured that it would get attention stating that although he got 5 percent of the vote it would not get much consideration.
“The most underreported significant showing of all time and space when it comes to a presidential election — I would love for that to transpire tomorrow. Get recognized for it. And maybe we even accomplish it and it goes unrecognized. That’s also another thing that could be very real. I get 5 percent of the vote but, ‘Oh, it’s just the pot smokers.’”
“Get ready for the ski season,” he said, laughing, when asked what he would do after Election Day. Then his family and he “are going to all go climb Aconcagua in Argentina in December.”
Johnson did not disclose any future plans to run for office.
“I hope to remain a spokesperson but I think the last thing anybody wants to hear right now is talk about 2016 when everybody’s just ready to barf over 2012, so I’ll stay away from that.”
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