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...Furthermore, this tendency is growing within the young voter population as well. Nigel Ashford, senior program officer at the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, says “There is a growth of libertarian campus groups which arise independently. A few are linked with the Libertarian party, but most are independent, and interested in ideas rather than direct politics...
...Andrew S. Loewer, president of the College Libertarians at Cornell University, sees a similar libertarian trend at Cornell and with peers: “Our generation is a lot more accepting than previous when it comes to alternate lifestyles and differences in choice,” adding in an e-mail that, “Many feel we’ve been betrayed by a government that’s fighting a war most Americans don’t want, spending money without regard to the future and not addressing our nation’s problems. Call us selfish...
...This libertarian slant in traditional politics among the college generation seems to have influenced both liberals and conservatives, and Harvard seems to be no exception. In a Crimson poll of 188 Harvard undergraduates conducted in all the river dining halls and in Annenberg, 30 students identified themselves as libertarians, as opposed to 15 Republicans and 143 Democrats...
...Brian J. Bolduc ’10. Bolduc, who is also a Crimson Editorial staff writer, spends hours each week on 2008 Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign. However, even with his evident Republican allegiance, Bolduc identifies himself both in person and on Facebook as a libertarian...
...Although we might be swaying towards libertarianism in theory, don’t expect to see many Harvard students flocking to the Libertarian party anytime soon. Along all levels of the libertarian crowd, there seems to be a consensus that the left-right political dichotomy and dominance of the two-party system isn’t going anywhere...