Why does the Libertarian party fixate on Presidential politics?

[IceSpear]

^ Actually, they tend to do much better in senate/governor races than the presidential. See FL and IL Gov. 2014 for two quick examples.

Wylie did great here. Had Rick Scott not been so good a Governor, I'd have voted for him. My friends were surprised that I backed Scott even as Wylie grew in the polls.

Would you have voted Wylie if The Criminal committed $2 billion worth of Medicare fraud rather than a scant $1.7 billion?

[IceSpear]

I want to post this here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Alaska,_2014

A person without a Wikipedia page or major name recognition almost got a twenty term incumbent below 50%. That's an incumbent Republican in Alaska in a major wave year for Republicans.

Protest votes for a libertarian are often high when a Republican candidate implodes (see Indiana and Missouri in 2012)