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Another thing that the party gets all the time is horrific platform fights. Today votes are expected on several motions regarding the party platform and bylaws. Those votes should "give us a good indication" of the relative strength of Barr and his opponents, said one Barr supporter.

One cause favored by the LP radicals is the so-called "Restore '04" agenda to change the party's platform back to the detailed 14,000-word treatise that was scrapped at the 2006 Libertarian convention in Portland, Ore. The revised platform is a spare 5,000 words.

The radicals hope to get a vote to revert to the earlier platform, which among much else contained a plank condemning "all international attempts to prevent or limit private exploration, industrialization, and colonization of the moon, planets, asteroids." Talk about aiming high.

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