May 10, 2007
A Ron Paul Surge?
According to a press release released on Tuesday by Ron Paul's campaign, since the GOP presidential debate on May 3, the congressman has1. Placed a close third (18%) in a debate poll on Drudge.
2. Won an ABCNews.com debate poll with 84% (after initially being excluded).
3. Won a C-SPAN online GOP candidate poll with 69%.
4. Became the third most-mentioned person in the blogosphere, beating out Paris Hilton, according to Technorati.
5. Produced a YouTube video that was ranked the 8th most-popular overall video and the most-viewed political video.
6. Been featured, by popular demand, on the front of Digg.
7. Generated so many bulletin posts on MySpace that the site owner News Corp. blocked all additional posts about Paul.
8. Became a "most searched" term on Google and Yahoo!.
9. Saw a quadrupling of daily visitors to RonPaul2008.com.
Posted at 09:04 AM
Comments
Besides the novelty of being the sole Republican who was against the war, the interest in Paul doesn't suprise me. It is indicative of the upcoming battle within the GOP over what principles the party stands for. I, for one, welcome the debate.
Rob | 05.10.07 09:18 AM
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It has recently come to light that Ron Paul's people spammed those poles. Pajamas Media reported that in their straw poll, someone voted for Paul 229 times from the same ISP in 72 minutes. His involvement with Truthers will never carry him with conservatives, but there are so many other areas he just doesn't cut the mustard. No thanks.
Glynn | 05.10.07 11:06 AM
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If you have 2 supporters and you suddenly have 8... that's an 800% increase in support... but it's still PALES in comparison to the 1000 supporters candidate B has...
Surges are relative to the size they started at.
A different Rob | 05.10.07 11:42 AM
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10. Recently came "out of the closet" as a truther. Thinks 9/11 was concocted by the US Government, Britian, CIA, WTC Employees, the list goes on....
Heather | 05.10.07 12:05 PM
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Paul may capture those Republicans who are furious about the neocon takeover of the party. He is in many ways a pre-Bush Republican. He probably doesn't have the money to win but he can raise a lot of hell by holding the neocon's feet to the fire. Good luck to him!
John | 05.10.07 12:11 PM
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No need to libel someone, Heather. Go back to your neoconservative love fest. The Democrats are going to win like it or not being that the people don't want another fake Republican in the White House. How is Bush's spending spree going?
uberconservative | 05.10.07 12:41 PM
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What's kind of funny about that is there is obviously little effort being made to have a competent web campaign. The website blows.
Tom B. | 05.10.07 12:46 PM
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uberconservative:
Why does everything always go back to Bush? Did I mention him in my post?
Anyway, he's labled himself as a truther:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/225943.php
Heather | 05.10.07 12:52 PM
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Dr. Paul represents a lot of voters (especially the many Republicans who stayed home in protest last election) and can raise money. He raised between $1.5-2.5 million in his last few contested congressional races (about 95% on average from individuals). Those exposed to his positions and campaign support him in a disproportionately larger way than the name ID polls at this point would indicate.
Bradley | 05.10.07 01:29 PM
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Heather,
Bush Derangement Syndrome rears its ugly head.
Glynn | 05.10.07 01:53 PM
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Many people like to criticize Paul for being too liberal or too conservative. Which is it? I think they have no idea what he stands for.
Also he's raised the most money in NH of any candidate except Romney and what with only 1 visit. McCain has been here 18 times! In NH we don't find the top three pushed by the media as acceptable in any way.
I can't imagine why anyone would find fault with a website -- as if your webmaster's skills have anything to do with whether you would be a competen president, but that just shows you how shallowly some folks on this comment section would choose a president.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/html/AboutRon_fx.html
Read up on Ron before you call names.
Also he is not a truther whatever that is...I was there in person when he was questioned on this and he said, there would be no point in having an investigation because it would just waste taxpayers funds and we would still never know what really happened.
Sounds sensible to me!
100% rating from NTU shows he's the taxpayers friend.
He's got my vote...
He was endorsed by Pat Buchanan and John McLaughling for his stellar performance in the debate. He was the only one who said anything of SUBSTANCE.
NH | 05.10.07 02:05 PM
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I forgot to add that the Pajamas Media poll was invalid because they ALLOWED people to vote multiple times with poor coding, but all the other polls were properly coded (MSNBC after-debate) and thus valid.
NH | 05.10.07 02:07 PM
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NH | 05.10.07 02:05 PM
You say:
Also he is not a truther whatever that is...I was there in person when he was questioned on this and he said, there would be no point in having an investigation because it would just waste taxpayers funds and we would still never know what really happened.
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You completely PROVE my point. "we would still never know what really happened."....What really happed is, 2 planes, flown by TERRORISTS, slammed into the Towers and demolished them. With those falling, it severely damaged several other buildings around which, in turn, fell also.
These buildings were not fallen by "controlled demolition" as the Trutherloonies like to state.
Heather | 05.10.07 02:22 PM
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Glynn | 05.10.07 01:53 PM
That ugly head seems to be everywhere...it is total ludicrous.
Heather | 05.10.07 02:23 PM
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If he is still not sure "what really happened" on 9/11, he is not worth considering for President
dollayo | 05.11.07 07:28 AM
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Guys, come on...there's been only ONE major party candidate in the past hundred years who actually supports Rule of Law under the Constitution, and that's Ron Paul. There's only ONE major party candidate who'd actually cut stuff from government instead of making it bigger, more costly, more intrusive and more dangerous to citizens.
Is there any other issue than this? Only one candidate wants to shrink, instead of grow government.
It's not that Dr. Paul is so great. But the other candidates are dangerously counterproductive.
Andrew Horning | 05.11.07 09:36 AM
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I couldn't agree with Glynn, Heather, and dollayo more. If you don't know what happened on 9/11 either you are in a coma or your brain functions like it's in a coma.
The issues are war against radical Islam and the sub issue of border control, and tax cuts and spending reductions, not endless investigations into Katrina, immagined global warming, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Give me mature candidates; it's an important job, not a pop culture icon plastic bobble head.
Amador | 05.11.07 12:07 PM
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ABC ran a story on their website about Ron Paul, and Ron Paul supporters flocked to it to criticize ABC's treatment of Ron Paul in the article and generally.
ABC started deleting posts about Ron Paul, banning users who posted about Ron Paul, and eventually repeatedly deleting all posts related to the story. My ABC account was banned for posting two comments that politely criticized the article and criticized ABC for deleting critical posts.
The article was written on May 7th, and by my rough estimate they deleted around 1500 comments to the article until on May 11th ABC posted a comment saying a user had notified them that day of a technical error in that article's comment area. Of course the bannings and selective deletions that outraged users took screenshots of and archived contradict that claim, as does the massive outcry protesting the deletions that started on May 7th.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/comments?type=story&id=3165894
http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/ABC_Deletes_Posts_Criticizing_Them_For_Deleting_posts
http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/ABC_Now_Removes_ALL_Posts_From_Ron_Paul_Story
Leon | 05.13.07 05:29 AM
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"Another fake republican" I think you need to take a look at his voting record before you start slinging mud.
He is about as real a republican as you can get. He won the GOP debate poll hands down. Had the best positive score and the lowest negative score, what part of this do you not understand.
ABC have been deleting hundreds of non abusive comments in support of him and criticising the biased reporting on his outright win.
As regards multiple voting, Obama and other candidates also had similar numbers of multiple voters so if we want to get to the bottom of that the next polls should block multiple voting from the same ip, then we might get somewhere on it.
His you tube support has surpassed Romney, Giuliani and McCain. Granted this merely represents on-line support but all of these people have family and friends in the "real" world.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss his popular support despite mainstream media ignoring him or biased reporting against him.
People are gradually waking up to the fact that they cannot rely on the MSM to give them the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Calvin | 05.13.07 10:30 AM
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Ok, because most people that criticize Paul don't know what he stands for completely, let me explain. First off, what he said regarding 9/11 was that an investigation was pointless because the government finds a way to spin everything that has to do with blame. No one is saying that terrorists didn't attack us-- that is obvious and if you think he is trying to negate that with regard to the 9/11 commission then you really have no idea what has been going on at all. Ron Paul doesn't trust the government, as well he shouldn't and we shouldn't with the scandals, blame games, lying, and undeclared wars; once again, hes not saying that 9/11 was a conspiracy, he is saying that the conspiracy is politicians trying to protect themselves from the blame of not sufficiently predicting 9/11 and protecting us--which they didn't, and if you think that politicians aren't trying to cover their asses just watch the news. With that out of the way, I would just like to point out that all those who claim to love America should take a long look at their true beliefs and see whether they love the America established by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Jefferson, or whether they love the America of the last one hundred and fifty years that has molested to the point of extinction the US constitution. Ron Paul is for the most patriotic item in America, has never voted against it, and wishes to return America to the way it was intended to be. If you dislike that, then perhaps you should move North Korea or Afghanistan...
Constitution&you | 05.13.07 11:18 AM
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The popularity of Ron Paul is not so surprising. We're seeing an end of the grand neocon experiment, but apparently the other republican candidates didn't get the memo. They're all talking about continuing or expanding the war while Paul stands out as a lone voice for peace and real conservative values like fiscal responsibility and small government.
tsoldrin | 05.13.07 12:11 PM
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Glynn, Heather, Amador and dollayo ,
I hope you like Hillary or Obama, because
McRomliani WILL NOT win. Unless the GOP gets
a clue and supports their Goldwater roots with
Paul, they will go down this election.
You will end up with a Democratic Congress and
a Democrat President.
JonQ | 05.13.07 01:02 PM
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If you have 2 supporters and you suddenly have 8... that's a 600% increase in support, not 800%. But, whatever.
I agree that a GOVERNMENT-sponsored investigation would just waste taxpayer funds and wouldn't tell us what really happened. (oh by the way...that already happened)
Rod | 05.14.07 05:41 PM
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Uh....as a mathematician, I have to fix this: it's not 800% and it's not 600%.
If you have 2 supporters, and then suddenly have 8, that's a 300% increase: (8/2)-1 = 3. Or think of it this way, you now have four times as many as you started with, which is an increase of three times what you started with.
RCT | 05.15.07 10:51 AM
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Ron Paul is a "Conservative" if by conservative you mean the old definition of one who believes in small government and sticking to constituitional values rather then religious ones.
Ron Pauls biggest challenge is winning primaries, with swing voters and democrats even he's a big hit.
With goldwater republicans he's a hit.
With blood thirsty evengelicals that go wild when other candidates describe how they would like to water board terrorists, yeah those guys he's not gonna win over.
mike | 05.17.07 09:05 PM
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I WAS HARD CORE DEMOCRATE AS MY WHOLE FAMILY MY UNCLE KNOWS THE CLINTONS AND KENNEDYS AND JIMMY CARTER AND ALL THE REST IN POWER UNTILE RON PAUL AMERICAS#1 CHOICE I WORK HARDER THAN EVER TO GET HIM ELECTED I EMAIL ALL OF THEM EVERY DAY TRYING TO GET THEM ALL TO VOTE RON PAUL THEY DONT RETURN MY E-MAIL ANY MORE THEY KNOW I AM PERSISTANT AND WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AT LEAST JIMMY CARTER JOIN WITH RON PAUL ILL KEEP TRYING UNTIL HE,S ELECTED AS PRESIDENT TO ALL YOU SUPORTERS KEEP ON KEEP ON WORKING UNTIL RON PAUL GETS 90% OF THE VOTES AND HOPE THEY DONT KILL HIM
jerry mcguire | 06.03.07 01:32 PM
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RON PAUL AMERICAS#1 CHOICE IT DOSENT MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY HE RAISES AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE LOVE HIM AS THEY DUE HE WILL SURLY WIN JIMMY CARTER WAS PROFE OF THAT I WAS HARD CORE DEMOCRATES NOW I TRY TO WORK TO GET ALL DEMOCRATES TO VOTE FOR HIM INCLUDING JIMMY CARTER NEOCONS LYING MAKES PEOPLE VOTE FOR HIM EVEN MORE THEY SEE THE LIES FROM 9-11 TO THE RIGGING OF THE VOTEING BOOTHS THEY ARE PUSHING AMERICA INTO A CIVIL WAR BARAC O BAMA IS IN #2 PLAE HILLARY AND RUDY AND JOHN MCAIN ARE THE CHOICE OF THE ZIONEST JEWS ITS TIME FOR AMERICAN TO MAKE A STAND WITH RON PAUL OUR NEXT PRESIDENT VOTE RON PAUL AND SHOW EVERY ONE WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR SO THE DAY OF ELECTION WE AS ALL AMERICANS CAN REJECT THE NEOCON CHOICE AND RETAILIATE IN RESPONCE TO THE ZIONEST JEWS AND CUT ALL FUNDING TO ISRAEL FROM ANY AMERICAN BANKS UNTIL THEY LEAVE OUR CONSTITUTION ALONE
jerry mcguire | 06.09.07 01:06 AM
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Ron Paul is a complete breath of FRESH AIR. I may not agree 100% will all of his views, I will vote for him. TIRED of the politicians that are true sell-outs to lobbyists? Hillary, Bush, all of them are. Ron Paul is NOT. We need him to put an end to this Neocon experiment gone wrong. Kick Bush out. Voting for Giuliani isn't the answer...he's just like Bush.
SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO D.C. "LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE" FOR A CHANGE.
VOTE RON PAUL!
Dan M. | 10.05.07 12:22 AM
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Glynn: This is a message for you. I in fact voted for the poll you are speaking about and i know for a fact just like with the GOP debate that Sean Hannity said we spammed. Its not possible they had some very good software making sure that you could not vote twice. But, keep spreading the propaganda. Also, please name one or more things that RON PAUL doesn't "cut the mustard" on. I am dying to hear this. Please give some facts this time instead of just blabbering! RON PAUL FOR PRES!
Ezra | 10.07.07 08:07 PM
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Sadly most christians have made Bush into a little god. And a little god can do no wrong and anything negative said about their little god is automatically rejected out of hand as lies and propaganda from the enemy"the democrats".They refuse to look at any evidence contrary to their belief in their little god. When you vote for evil whether lessor or greater, you are going to get EVIL. Sadly they will vote for the republican that has the most chance of winning again. And if they have a pastor like I had he will tell them who to vote for outright. I had mine tell me that he knew a brother who knew a brother who knew a brother who laid with his face on the floor all night long with George W. Bush in prayer. What a crock, if Dubya is a christian, the world is flat! We all better get on the Ron Paul bandwagon or their may not be another chance to elect a true statesman instead of a bought and paid for politician. Time is short!
Bill N. | 11.11.07 01:52 AM
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Anyone who is politically active, or that reads anything past the major media, Can see the obvious personal benefits that we'd all directly experience under Ron Paul. Especially in the sense of individual liberties and freedoms (small business, health care, schools etc) . The patriot acts for example, what the f**k is that all about? you Obhama and hillary groupies need to read that crap. Then read the constitution, yes, the constitution. We aren't Ron Paul supporters, we're supporters of Freedom, and liberty and democracy the same shit this country was founded on, in the interest of escaping the same Tyrrany (in some cases verbatim) we evaded in 1776. I can't believe how truly idiotic people can be, who gives a f**k about whats on Obama's ipod. Read, learn educate yourself, vote progressive change for the betterment of the people of the United States. It isn't that complicated.
Ron Paul 2008
Dalton | 12.04.07 02:32 PM
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