This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, March 13, 2008. I'm Caleb Brown.

Who will Libertarian's support in the 2008 presidential race?

Keaton Institute Executive Vice President David Boz says he would love to talk about where the

Libertarian vote is headed, but in an election year featuring Obama, McCain, and Hillary,

he just can't imagine where they'll go.

David Bose is the author of the new Cato book, The Politics of freedom. We said the reporting on it was limited, but essentially what has Barack Obama said to make

sort of this appeal to libertarians?

Well, one speech in Wyoming. to make sort of this appeal to libertarians.

Well, one speech in Wyoming, he was asked about President Bush's executive orders,

and he talked about how in the West there are a lot of people both Democrats and Republicans with

Libertarian sympathies and that he thought he could appeal to people like that they would

be concerned about executive power and he's going to do something about that and he

said there's nothing

conservative there's nothing Republican about accumulating all power in the

presidency so that was his one explicit appeal to people who lean libertarian.

John McCain has unequivocally said that he will not use presidential signing statements.

Obama and Hillary have both said, eh, maybe.

Well, I think they've actually said something stronger than maybe.

I think they've said that the president has gone way overboard and they're not going to continue to do it that way. But you're right,

McCain has said unequivocally he will not. Presidents have been using signing statements

for a long time and so I'm not sure that's the measured response. I'm no

expert on this topic but I think the fact that Bush has taken it too far and has

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