Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was “almost a non-factor” in the GOP’s state-by-state electoral calculation.

However, Republicans have still been pulling out all the stops to keep Gary Johnson off the ballot, ranging from swing states such as Pennsylvania, Iowa, Virginia and Ohio, to likely Democratic states such as Michigan, to solidly Republican states such as Oklahoma. In Michigan and Oklahoma they appear to have succeeded, overturning long-standing legal precedents that sore loser laws don’t apply to presidential candidates and that state parties trump national parties when determining candidates on the ballot.

Priebus’ statement has elicited numerous comments at sites such as Politico and Yahoo News.