Martin Buchanan

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Martin Buchanan
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November 8, 2016

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Martin Buchanan was a 2016 Libertarian candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 7th Congressional District of Colorado.[1]

Elections

2016

See also: Colorado's 7th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Ed Perlmutter (D) defeated George Athanasopoulos (R) and Martin Buchanan (L) in the general election on November 8, 2016. No candidate faced a primary opponent in June.[2][3][4]

U.S. House, Colorado District 7 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngEd Perlmutter Incumbent 55.2% 199,758
     Republican George Athanasopoulos 39.8% 144,066
     Libertarian Martin Buchanan 5% 18,186
Total Votes 362,010
Source: Colorado Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Buchanan's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

  • Climate Change: Climate change is real. Rising levels of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide and methane, are producing global warming, melting ice, rising sea levels, and more acidic oceans.
  • Federal Taxes: If we want our government to balance the budget and pay down its debts, we cannot reduce the absolute amount of revenue taken in taxes for a long time.
  • Immigration: If a job in Canada paid a million dollars a year, how many of us would try to sneak into that country? Quite a few. In the absence of another offense, crossing a border illegally does not harm anyone. The man or woman from Mexico or China or Syria is a human being as much as you are, with the same right to seek to earn an honest living.
  • Health Care: ObamaCare is a failure. It forces you to buy inferior health insurance for an excessive price, continuing the trend of government making health care less affordable. Government has wrecked and distorted our health care system for more than five decades, and has caused most of the huge increases in health care costs in that time.
  • Our Economy: We have an economy half destroyed by government. We all know our government faces future bankruptcy, a definite damper on investment plans. Productive businesses and workers face combined federal-state marginal tax rates that often range from 30% to 50%.

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—Martin Buchanan's campaign website, http://www.buchananforcongress.org/Policy_Other.htm

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