Johnson-Roemer 2012

In 2012, Buddy Roemer endorsed Gary Johnson after failing to get the Reform Party nomination.

Roemer was an interesting guy, being something of a media darling in liberal and independent circles. He was pro-occupy wall street to an extent (Johnson actually visited OWS), and pro-civil union (complementary to Johnson being pro-SSM).

What if Johnson-Roemer had been the 2012 Libertarian Party ticket?
 
The ticket probably would get more then the 1% they got in OTL due to the addition of a well experienced governor of a state as a running mate and the more liberal/reformist (on campaign finance issues) views he held which could gain amount those single issues voters. Or perhaps also a gain among average republican voters with a addition of another prominent reformist republican on the Libertarian ticket. I doubt they get over 5%, due to the flaws Johnson had and the climate 2012 was, however 2-4% is possible.
 
The ticket probably would get more then the 1% they got in OTL due to the addition of a well experienced governor of a state as a running mate and the more liberal/reformist (on campaign finance issues) views he held which could gain amount those single issues voters. Or perhaps also a gain among average republican voters with a addition of another prominent reformist republican on the Libertarian ticket. I doubt they get over 5%, due to the flaws Johnson had and the climate 2012 was, however 2-4% is possible.
I can also imagine them getting a reform nomination
Not sure if that helps them or not, but still
 
Gentleman Biaggi, today only 8 states have fusion voting (California*, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, and South Carolina) so I'm not sure they'd bother for Reform. Johnson was also on the ballot in 48 states and could be written-in in Michigan (you couldn't vote for him in Oklahoma) so I doubt there'd be a big difference. The NY Independence Party nominated Johnson in 2016 though, so maybe they nominate him here.

*California only has fusion for Presidential votes

If Roemer pushes for getting nominations from other minor parties, that'd be interesting. There's only three states with possible usable parties though:
Connecticut: Connecticut for Lieberman Party (which by 2012 was anti-Lieberman weirdly)
Delaware: Independent Party of Delaware
New York: Independence Party, Rent is Too Damn High Party

DuckyMcDuckface, 2-4% would have potential ripple effects. In 2016 name-ID may be higher. If that 2-4% is concentrated, the ticket may play spoiler some places, though I'm not sure for who (2016 Johnson went from pulling 60-40 HRC initially to 50-50 for the bulk of the campaign to 70-30 Trump by the end). If it's mostly single-issue voters and Republicans, I could see a 60-40 pull from Romney.

As for spoiling, I could see Obama taking North Carolina here but not much other impact.
 
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