Actress Melissa Joan Hart wants to vote 'for someone,' and that someone is Gary Johnson


Actress Melissa Joan Hart is locking up the teen witch vote for Gary Johnson, having thrown her support behind the Libertarian candidate and stepped up as his campaign's Connecticut chairperson. "I want to break away from this two-party system and I think it's important for people to know that there's another candidate out there who really toes the line between Democrat and Republican," Hart told People. "I mean, he's Libertarian. But socially he's liberal, but fiscally conservative."
I always said I wouldn't vote for a party, I would vote for the person that was the best for the job... and I think I found him. @govgaryjohnson #voteFORsomeone not against one. My hope is that sometime in my lifetime we can be more than a 2- party country.A photo posted by Melissa Joan Hart (@melissajoanhart) on Sep 28, 2016 at 3:58am PDT
"Governors, I love, because they already ran their state as, like, a little president," Hart added, in reference to Johnson's eight years as governor of New Mexico. "He was on a border state, so if you want to talk about immigration, he's the guy."
Johnson is currently polling at an average of 7.4 percent nationally; in an Emerson poll in early September, he was at about 9 percent in Connecticut. Watch Hart talk about why she supports the underdog, below. Jeva Lange
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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