Johnson Magnifies The Trump Bump

  That Donald Trump would receive a bump in his polling, is not unexpected.  But CNN went further and ran 2 sets of polls; 

• one with the 2 major candidates
• another with Libertarian & Green Party options.

Trump's 3 point lead becomes 5 points when Johnson is on the poll.  The surprising result shows that Libertarian candidate (& former Republican) Gov. Gary Johnson is actually helping Donald Trump by taking more support from the Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton.

 Many republicans had feared that a Johnson option would sink a tight race for a Republican. Perhaps this notion is propped up by images of other Libertarians in the Republican party? Barry Goldwater, Ron Paul, and others seem to be grouped to the 'far right' on the political spectrum. 

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  But the Gary Johnson - Bill Weld ticket is actually a rather left-leaning option on social issues.

• Johnson would retain the pro-choice policy on abortion.
• He even supports a mandate of businesses to serve events contrary to their values and faith.

Johnson does get support from the small govt. crowd because he favors a massive shift away from social spending. He often soft-peddles this point when doing media interviews. He usually makes reference to the congressional love affair with social spending. I would agree with him about the Republican leadership in Washington who talk one way in campaign speeches, but keep spending more in more on the same cromnibus spending packages.