1. Yesterday, Gary Johnson became the Libertarian Party's nominee for president. (I wrote about Johnson dominating the Washington state Libertarian convention back in March.) If Johnson gets enough media attention, he could wind up being a kind of Ralph Nader of the right, siphoning small-government votes away from Mitt Romney. Or he could be a big hunk of nothing, as every other Libertarian presidential candidate has been since the dawn of humanity.

2. Also over the weekend, Ron Paul kind of won the state of Maine:

Chaos. Turmoil. Insane.

Those were just three of the words attendees used Sunday to describe the Maine Republican State Convention, a two-day unity event at the Augusta Civic Center that morphed into a divisive slog between the party establishment and the highly mobilized, energized and organized supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.

The discord is likely to continue: The Mitt Romney campaign sent a lawyer to the event and Romney backers are contemplating launching a challenge to the results.

Paul won 20 of 24 likely delegates in Maine. Paul supporters pulled the same trick in Nevada yesterday, too.