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Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Mitch McConnell just put one election behind him that is expected to sweep him into the position of Senate majority leader, but he already knows who he'd back in 2016 if he decides to run: fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul.

"I don't think he's made a final decision on that. But he'll be able to count on me," McConnell said of Paul's presidential prospects in an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader published Thursday.

McConnell, who called himself a "big supporter of Rand Paul" said the pair have "developed a very tight relationship."

"And I'm for him," McConnell said. "Whatever he decides to do."

That's despite the fact that other members of McConnell's new majority are considering presidential bids, including Sens. Ted Cruz, Rob Portman and Marco Rubio.

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But McConnell and Paul have become close, with Paul campaigning with McConnell to stave off the Senate minority leader's Democratic challenge from Alison Lundergan Grimes. And the pair spent Election Night together in Kentucky.

McConnell and Paul have come a long way since 2010, when McConnell backed his primary opponent, a mistake he said he wished he could "do over again."

"I've learned my lesson there," McConnell said. "That clearly was a mistake. We all make them, and that's one if I had to do over again I would."

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Sen. Rand Paul said a host of unsuccessful Democratic Senate candidates he branded Hillarys losers on Facebook tried to associate themselves with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and separate themselves from President Obama, when the reality is theres not much daylight between the two.

My point is to make that they all ran to separate themselves from the president, they wanted to be associated as Clinton Democrats, and they all were soundly rejected, the Kentucky Republican said Friday on Fox and Friends. So there is a message here about Hillary Clinton as much as there is a message about the president.

Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who lost to presumptive Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky this year, for example, famously refused to divulge whether or not she voted for President Obama, instead describing herself as a Clinton Democrat.

But Mr. Paul said the only reason President Bill Clinton was able to carry Kentucky was because Ross Perot was on the ballot.

No Clinton has ever carried a majority in Kentucky, so I think theyre fooling themselves in the south, and also the 1990s was a long time ago - it was another era, he said. There arent many conservative Democrats left; the party has become so liberalI dont know, I dont think there is such a Clinton cachet as there once was.

Mrs. Clinton did trounce Mr. Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary in the state, taking almost two-third of the vote.

Nevertheless, Mr. Paul, arguably more than any other potential 2016 GOP presidential hopeful, has worked to ensure Mrs. Clinton, the odds-on favorite for the Democratic nomination if she runs, will not get a pass this time around.

I think in the past, we havent gone after the opposing partys nominee to say who they are and what they represent, and I think she is going to try to say, oh, Im different than President Obama. Hes very unpopular, but I have different policies, he said. Well, she was part of his administration and I really dont know of many, if any, policies they disagree on.

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Interview with former Right Wing Conspiracy Theorist, Libertarian, Misogynist Turned Anarchist
I interview a guy that took a similar political journey to myself. This was filmed at the Million Masked March on Nov 5th.

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By Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman November 7 at 6:00 PM

Does Mark Warner now owe his career to Virginias perennial Libertarian candidate,Robert Sarvis?

SarvissSenate campaign touted a 10 percent solution to our political woes. If 10 percent of the voters would vote for him, then the Libertarians would automatically get a line on the Virginia ballot, a la Republicans and Democrats and keep the major party candidates honest.

Sarvis got barely a quarter of that number. But his 2.5 percent solution did work wonders, just not for him. Exit polls provide powerful evidence he attracted enough Republican protest votes to swing the election for Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.

The Libertarians 53,000 voters mostly came from younger voters, particularly white males, unhappy with President Obamas leadership. They generally leaned independent. Very few (almost none, in fact) wereDemocrats. But a good chunk did label themselves Republicans.

Exit polls on fringe candidates are to be read with abundant caution. Yet it isclear the Sarvis Republican voter wanted to protest President Obamas leadership. If Gillespie had been the only option, they most likely would have backed the GOP nominee.But Sarvis gave them a second option.

The result? Instead of drowning in anti-Obama tidal wave runningfrom the wind turbines off the Virginia coast all the way to the Alaskan oil fields, Mark Warner found a life-preserver in the Libertarian candidate.

Third-party protest voting is a great American tradition. The most memorable in recent times wasGreen Party candidate Ralph Nader sinking environmentalist Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election and handing the election (after a Supreme Court ruling) to George W. Bush.

Thats politics. But 2014 is apparently the first time in Virginia that a protest candidate decided the outcome of a major election. Some vocal Democrats disagree, blaming racism for Warners near-loss. According to this theory, white voters antipathy toward President Obama is skin-deep. But since his name didnt appear on the ballot, they projected these prejudices on to Mr. Warner. Crying racismhas become a cottage industry among too many this cycle.

Warners supporters do him no favors by blaming white people for his election-night troubles. Twenty-five years ago, Doug Wilder made history by prevailing in a far closer statewide race with a far higher percentage of white voter support. He didnt blame racism for his narrow win. He praised voters for helping him make history.

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Florida's Libertarian streak appears to run right through the heart of Tampa Bay. Voters from Tierra Verde to Wesley Chapel must love their craft beers, because Libertarian candidate for governor Adrian Wyllie performed much better in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco counties than elsewhere.

Wyllie got 3.75 percent of the statewide vote, according to unofficial returns that will change slightly after the counting of provisional and overseas ballots. That's less than what most polls projected he would receive, but Wyllie did better in Tampa Bay, where he did TV advertising.

The Palm Harbor resident, who made a statewide tour of craft breweries, got 5.6 percent in Pinellas and 4.8 percent in Hillsborough. Pasco, the home of Wyllie's running mate Greg Roe, gave Wyllie 7 percent of the vote, his high-water mark. Those three counties account for 22 percent of all Wyllie votes statewide (Pinellas and Hillsborough also have the most Libertarian Party voters).

The Wyllie boomlet continued up the Nature Coast. He got 6 percent in Hernando and 6.5 percent in Citrus before fading to 3.74 percent in Levy, almost identical to his statewide share of the vote.

Compare those numbers to Wyllie's dismal South Florida showings: Miami-Dade, 1.4 percent; Broward, 1.9 percent; Palm Beach, 2.2 percent.

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