My column over at RCP today is about libertarians’ relationship with the Republican Party. I start out by noting that libertarians largely stuck by Bush in 2004, despite, well, everything:

That’s no way for an organized voting bloc to behave. If no amount
of sticking yor finger in a constituency’s eye will make them vote
against you, you’re going to poke through until you hit brain. But, of
course, no one ever said that libertarians were organized — or that,
when it comes to politics, they have much in the way of brains.

But what if they did? How powerful a voting bloc could they be?

The quick and dirty answer is somewhere between 9 percent and 20 percent of the American electorate. Not the largest voting bloc, but one that — were it organized — should be hard to ignore.