One major hurdle will come on September 10th, when Wisconsin has its "straight-ticket" primary, meaning that anyone who wants to vote for Mr Thompson must also support all the other Libertarian candidates on the ticket.
Amid heavy turnout, Republicans appeared to be crossing over in droves today in Marion County and suburban counties, where fewer Republican voters might impact down-ticket primary races.
That will give Republicans a pair of controversial CEOs at the top of their ticket after primary campaigns marked by constant tackings to the far right.
One site, ticketbots.net, sells automated programs called "bots" that can search for and buy tickets from primary sites, such as Ticketmaster, as soon as they go on sale.
Ticketmaster and Tickets.com, the top players in online ticketing, are both better known as primary ticket outlets, but each has formed relationships with professional sports organizations to give season-ticket holders a way to resell tickets that would otherwise go unused.
Tickets.com www.tickets.comOffers primary tickets for professional sports, concerts, arts and family events.
The site is aggregating tickets from 10 primary and secondary ticket vendors in the US and UK, no mean feat.
Ticketmaster, the king of primary ticket sales, owns TicketsNow, the second-biggest reseller.
If we ever colonise the moon and build a stadium, we believe there will be a secondary ticketing business for the stadium and the primary ticket company will have the same problems as before".
Only season-ticket holders can post tickets for resale, and they can set the price at or above the face value of a primary ticket, according to Russ Stanley, the vice president for ticket services and client relations for the Giants.
Secondary ticketing, the name for tickets that are resold as opposed to "primary" tickets released at face value, has attracted increasing scrutiny of late.
