In the mid-2000s , groups such as the Libertarian Party Reform Caucus generally advocated revising the party 's platform , eliminating or altering the membership statement and focusing on a politics-oriented approach aimed at presenting libertarianism to voters in what they deemed a " less threatening " manner . LPRadicals emerged in response and was active at the 2008 and 2010 Libertarian National Conventions . In its most recent incarnation , the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus was founded with the stated goal to " support the re-radicalization of the LP . " At the 2016 Libertarian National Convention , the Radical Caucus endorsed Darryl W. Perry for President and Will Coley for Vice President , who respectively won 7 % and 10 % of the vote on the first ballot , both taking fourth place . Though not explicitly organized as such , most self-identified pragmatists or moderates supported the nomination of Gary Johnson for President and Bill Weld for Vice President . Johnson and Weld were both nominated on the second ballot with a narrow majority after having both placed just shy of the required 50 % on the first ballots . After the convention , the Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus ( " LPC " ) was founded and organized with the goal " t o promote realistic , pragmatic , and practical libertarian candidates and solutions . " LPC supported Nicholas Sarwark in his successful bid for re-election as Chair of the party 's national committee at the 2018 convention in New Orleans . In 1999 , a working group of leading Libertarian Party activists proposed to reformat and retire the platform to serve as a guide for legislative projects ( its main purpose to that point ) and create a series of custom platforms on current issues for different purposes , including the needs of the growing number of Libertarians in office . The proposal was incorporated in a new party-wide strategic plan and a joint platform-program committee proposed a reformatted project platform that isolated talking points on issues , principles and solutions as well as an array of projects for adaptation . This platform , along with a short Summary for talking points , was approved in 2004 . Confusion arose when prior to the 2006 convention there was a push to repeal or substantially rewrite the Platform , at the center of which were groups such as the Libertarian Reform Caucus . Their agenda was partially successful in that the current platform was much shortened ( going from 61 to 15 planks – 11 new planks and 4 retained from the old platform ) over the previous one
2016 Libertarian National Convention
2016 Libertarian National Convention
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