Editing Roger MacBride (section)

===1976 presidential campaign===
[[File:Roger MacBride 1976 Campaign.jpg|thumb|170px|MacBride touring the [[Prudhoe Bay Oil Field]] during his presidential campaign in 1976]]
After casting his [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]] in 1972,<ref name="Hamowy"/> MacBride gained favor within the fledgling Libertarian Party, which had been founded the previous year.<ref>Doherty, Brian (2008). ''[[Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement]]''. PublicAffairs. pp. 393–95.</ref>  As the Libertarian presidential nominee in 1976,<ref name="Merced"/> he achieved ballot access in 32 states,<ref name="Saxon"/> campaigning on a platform of support for a [[free market]] system, a return to the [[gold standard]], the abolition of the [[Federal Reserve]], an end to [[corporate welfare]], the abolition of the [[FCC]], a foreign policy of [[non-interventionism]], and the abolition of  [[victimless crime]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=MacBride's New Book|url=http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/libertarian-forum/lf-9-7.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330090328/http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/libertarian-forum/lf-9-7.pdf|archive-date=March 30, 2017}}</ref> MacBride and his [[running mate]] [[David Bergland]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wPgeAAAAIBAJ&pg=6084,2170100&dq=roger-macbride+little+house+on+the+prairie+co-creator&hl=en | title=Libertarian candidate to visit | work=[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|Daily News]] | date=March 18, 1976 | access-date=July 25, 2012}}</ref> received 172,553 (0.2%) popular votes but no electoral votes. His best performance was in [[United States presidential election in Alaska, 1976|Alaska]], where he received 6,785 votes, or nearly 5.5%.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1976&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0 "1976 Presidential General Election Results"], Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 25, 2012.</ref>