Is Bob Barr a non-issue?

[Jacobtm]

After '80, all LP candidates for President have gotten from .25% to .50% of the popular vote, so even assuming that Barr's candidacy is nothing special, he could end up being important in several key states. Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia all gave Badnarik around .33% in '04. With the possibility that some of these states will be very close, even someone taking such a small amount of the vote could be important. And while Barr may not surpass 1% in any of these states, even if he just got up to around .50% it could be important in a very close state.

Of course, this only matters in a race where many states are very close, but there've been enough cases in recent years where states when for one candidate by less than 1% to assume that he could matter.