I recently obtained the Allegheny County voter registration data (up-to-date as of September 23, 2009), and learned that we now have 3,198 registered Libertarians, up from 2,775 two years ago. This occurred without our doing any type of voter registration drive.

It's a sign of citizen/voter discontent with the status quo, perhaps combined with a knowledge of and liking for the libertarian "live and let live" attitude.

--Harold Kyriazi