“In the wake of the LP’s Super Tuesday, earnest LP partisans promptly started spinning the results, just like major-party politicos do. In the comments at Third Party Watch, Tom Knapp spins the Super Tuesday outcome by saying it leaves us with a two-man race between his man Steve Kubby and (not surprisingly) the top-tier candidate least likely to draw votes from self-described radical Kubby — Wayne Root. Kubby explains away Root’s 1st-place finish [sic] in Missouri (doubling Kubby’s total) as a predictable result of ballot position (that Knapp apparently didn’t predict).” [editor’s note: Actually, I’ve publicly referred numerous times to Missouri LP primaries’ tendency to deliver the victory to the top name on the ballot. Not that that would be applicable here, since the top name on the ballot (Root’s) came in second, not first, in Tuesday’s primary, and nearly 30% behind the first-place finisher, “uncommitted” - TLK] (02/06/08)