Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Ron Paul has the Money, but not the Mo from Maine Yesterday's projections from Maine show that Ron Paul may place third in Maine's GOP caucus, which may be an indicator of things to come.by Bob Nightingale
(libertarian)
Sunday, February 3, 2008
At about 9 p.m. Saturday Feb 2, over half the Maine precincts reported that Mitt Romney is leading with 52%. According to the CNN Politics website, McCain is running in second place at 21% and Ron Paul is at a close third with 19%. Huckabee is bringing up the rear at 6%.
For the Paul campaign, this should be relatively good news, because Paul polls about 5% nationally. There is one more day (2/3/08) of caucusing in Maine's unusual three-day event.
Maine could have been the state that put the Ron Paul campaign onto the evening news in advance of Super Tuesday. Or not. Looking at the last debate on CNN last week, the focus was clearly on the McCain-Romney squabble over who said what years ago. Huckabee, the media's candidate du jour several weeks ago, has evaporated in the press since his performance in New Hampshire. Ron Paul got very little national press with his second place finishes recently in Nevada and Louisiana. I saw plenty on TV about Rudy Giuliani's multi-million dollar lone delegate. The only way to reverse this trend would seem to finish with the most votes in some states.
With over $5 million raised in January, and nearly $20 million raised last quarter, Ron Paul has the financial capacity to keep going indefinitely. My recent trolling of the blogs indicates that he has some strong support in Colorado, Alabama, North Dakota, and maybe Illinois. I'm not sure if he'll win any of those states, but he will pick up delegates along the way, including a few in California. Unfortunately, it will be hard for him to win some of the bigger states that are winner-take-all, like New York with its 87 of 101 delegates given on Tuesday. Even so, his cash position will allow him to continue to campaign beyond Super Tuesday--as long as his supporters have an available balance on their Visa and MasterCard.
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The Revolution is winning lots of delegates. All those straw polls weren't for nothing. where Romney and McCain are supposedly winning votes they aren't collecting delegates Ron Paul is!
Ron Paul is just now building momentum. Think about the large majority of the anti-war vote that went to McCain in the NH exit polls. Those people obviously didn’t know what the heck they were voting for in “Hundred Year War” McKill. Every dollar donated, every commercial ran, every door knocked will keep growing this movement.
I'm thinking of switching from Republican to Independent. That way, I can't get screwed into being forced to vote Republican if they continue to downplay Ron Paul.
Go to ronpaul2008.com to see that Ron Paul actually took 2nd in Delegates in the state of Maine ahead of McCain. Ron Paul is in this till the end folks and you better find out why.
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