For all that I admire the LPM's tenacity when it comes to idealogical purity, these fellas just don't seem to get a basic concept of Duverger's Law.  Any third-party that wants to have an actual impact on a statewide or national election has to spend at least three consecutive election cycles (so, six years minimum) building the necessary infrastructure from the ground up.  By this I mean that said third party should start by winning small, local, nominally non-partisan elections (think of township boards, school boards, city commissions, and the like), and build upward from there.

If the LPM were to do this, then it's conceivable that they'd have an unignorable statewide presence come the 2016 elections ... but not sooner.  They don't; instead, the Libertarians insist on a "be heard, not herded" mindset that trumpets a third option from the rooftops, all the while ignoring the fundamental electoral mechanics of the Single-Member District-Plurality methodology that's been in place since America's foundation.