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January 19, 2008 7:06 PM

Ron Paul Celebrates Nevada Second

Ron Paul's fervent supporters have something to crow about: With nearly all precincts reporting, the Texas representative is sitting in second place in the Nevada caucuses.

Now, a few caveats. First off, it's a pretty distant second. Paul only got 14 percent of the vote, far behind Mitt Romney's 51 percent. Secondly, Paul barely edged out John McCain, who didn't campaign in Nevada, whereas Paul ran ads in the state. And third, Paul is not looking like a factor in South Carolina, where voters went to the polls today.

Still, second place is second place, and the Paul campaign is celebrating.

“Ron Paul has once again topped multiple media-anointed ‘frontrunners’ with his poll-defying second place showing in Nevada,” Paul campaign chairman Kent Snyder said in a statement. “We’re in this race to win, and we’re going to battle for every delegate in this wide-open race for the Republican nomination.”
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by dylbro January 19, 2008 8:26 PM PST
Ron Paul vs Hillary vs Barrack

Paul 6,077
Clinton 5,326
Obama 4,739

This is the real story!!
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by nh4ronpaul January 19, 2008 8:27 PM PST
Hopefully as these other impostors drop by the wayside people will begin to see who the real conservative is, the one who WILL go against the elitists who are running this nation into the ground and erasing our sovereignty.
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by denisl1 January 19, 2008 8:46 PM PST
You know with all the problems facing America, it would be really nice if the mainstream media actually cared about reporting on the positions of each Presidential candidate on all the issues rather than reporting on the horse race. Unfortunately the MSM thinks that only the polls and the candidate%u2019s %u201Cpresidential charisma%u201D are important. Who the heck cares how they comb their hair or what color her dress was?! We will get more in depth reporting on the Super Bowl players than we will on the remaining candidates. It is all quite maddening.

That being said, we each seem to have our own major issue(s) that make their choice for President seem like the best one. My question is: Would someone tell me why we should NOT elect Ron Paul? The rest seem to be talking crazy talk about our military adventures in the Middle East. Also, no one else seems to understand the problems with the economy, inflation, and out of control deficit spending. Inflation is going to eat us alive, as it has already started to do so. Do you really believe that the REAL inflation rate used for Social Security check increases this month was 2.3%? Please vote Ron Paul and save the country from bankruptcy abroad and at home!


We each seem to have our own major issue(s) that make their choice for President seem like the best one. My question is: Would someone tell me why we should NOT elect Ron Paul? (continued)
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by denisl1 January 19, 2008 8:47 PM PST
(continued) The rest, with Richardson out and Kucinich low in the polls, seem to be talking crazy talk about our military adventures in the Middle East. Additionally, no one else seems to understand the problems with the economy, inflation, and out of control deficit spending. Inflation is going to eat us alive, as it has already started to do so. Do you really believe that the REAL inflation rate last year, the rate that was used by the government for Social Security check increases this month, was 2.3%? Just look at the price of gold up 30% in 2007, now at an all time high and getting higher!

One can not talk about tax cuts without ALSO talking about cutting spending. We have a $9 trillion debt (nearly double since 2000) that must be paid so we can afford Social Security and Medicare. The interest payments will go sky high when we begin to fight inflation with higher Federal Reserve bank rates.

And we must stop inflation or everyone''s life savings will go down the tubes, along with the middle class, like what has happened to the middle class in most countries south of our border. And do not forget National Health Insurance, which is coming down the tracks right at us, unless Republicans begin to understand the seriousness of runaway deficits and inflation. And start educating the country. A Democratic President will surely not fight inflation like Volcker and Reagan did!

Please vote Ron Paul and save the country from bankruptcy abroad and at home!
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by sminersc January 19, 2008 9:21 PM PST
Nevada is a small 2nd place victory for our (Ron Pual) campaign, mostly because we head right back to my ''head in the sand'' southland of SC and then FL. But still I was excited as hell for us. But we have to realize that this is an ultra-marathon, and we have to keep our man in the race while everyone else goes broke, and then we''ll have a better shot at educating the average voter about their best choice for President. If we keep our man in the race, we will still fight a huge battle against the undermining establishment that doesn''t want him in the White House. These are powerful people that want to maintain control and secrecy, and Ron Paul threatens to expose the size and corruption within, and connected with, government. People don''t know enough about Ron Paul yet to realize the benefits of getting out of Iraq, backing away from Iran, closing bases around the world and bringing our soldiers home (even though my nephew loves being stationed in Germany), stopping funding to other countries, and focusing on our borders and our people within them. I spoke with Ron Paul last night in Charleston after our Veterans rally, this man is a brilliant visionary for our future and our sovereignty and prosperity. And he''s a cycling advocate to boot.
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by goronpaulgo January 19, 2008 9:24 PM PST
I did a search and had to really dig to find any mention of Ron Paul by the mass media and finally found this story only to see the writer pooh poohing Ron Paul''s win.

If Ron Paul had a sprinkling of the pop and the FREE media ride the RINOs have been getting, the American people would learn what Ron Paul''s freedom message is about. That is why all Ron Paul information has to be hunted down -much like any news of substance.

That''s okay. Some extremely interested Americans are learning and will teach others well.

R3VOLution in Jesus'' name!
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by collegerepub January 19, 2008 9:34 PM PST
When you add the cumulative votes for Iowa, NH, Michigan and Nevada Ron Paul is fourth. Your back-handed marginalizing articles about Ron Paul are tiresome. There is no credibility for you to defend, so I why bring it up?

Name Total %
Romney 465,768 36.86%
McCain 367,187 29.06%
Huckabee 210,915 16.69%
Paul 90,631 7.17%
Thompson 54,443 4.31%
Giuliani 51,105 4.04%
Uncomitted 17,971 1.42%
Hunter 4,567 0.36%
Tancredo 531 0.04%
Brownback 354 0.03%
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by avejoe1 January 19, 2008 10:45 PM PST
The amazing story is 2nd place. This is a place I want to move too. Could you imagine just what numbers he''d get if he had his message getting out on MSM? Paul get''s censored everywhere. Not a minute of him on TV today.
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by nh4ronpaul January 19, 2008 10:51 PM PST
anyone wonders why the media, specifically the New York Times, cannot be trusted to report the news in a truthful way, here is a bit of proof:

This is supposed to be a primary RESULTS page%u2026but the second place winner in Nevada, Ron Paul at 14%, has amazingly been LEFT OUT.

Title of page: Primary Season Election Results
URL: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/index.html

When I wrote to the NYT to complain, I got a long convoluted song and dance about polling. Why then are the results for NH primary candidates getting 1% posted and not candidates getting 8%?

It makes no sense. Call and let them know you won%u2019t be fooled by their blatant twisting of the news.

1-888-698-6397
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by discgolfer26 January 20, 2008 1:04 AM PST
When other candidates do poorly--such as Guliani, the media discusses the positive aspects of this and their tone and mannerisms show true compassion. Yet when Ron Paul does well, they immediately feel obligated to discuss why it''s not such a great thing! ("Now, a few caveats. First off, it''s a pretty distant second. Paul only got 14 percent of the vote, far behind Mitt Romney''s 51 percent. Secondly, Paul barely edged out John McCain, who didn''t campaign in Nevada, whereas Paul ran ads in the state. And third, Paul is not looking like a factor in South Carolina, where voters went to the polls today.")

Note that McCain HAS BEEN GIVEN HUGE media attention across the country, including Nevada while, concurrently, there has been a virtual media black-out of Ron Paul! In fact, one has to do their own research to learn about the Ron Paul campaign. Knowing how poorly motivated many Americans are and how they get much of their information from television, most know little about Ron Paul. What also wasn''t mentioned is the huge concern about the unreliability of the electronic voting machines across the country. (Go to: http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php or http://www.blackboxvoting.org.)

The way the media%u2014including CBS has marginalized Ron Paul (and other candidates like Kucinich) is reprehensible. Whatever happened to good old fashioned objective reporting? Just think: What IF Dr. Paul had received EQUAL national news coverage as had Clinton, Obama and other candidates?
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by goodsand-2009 January 20, 2008 1:48 AM PST
Why is it that you minimize everything about Ron Paul? Your lack of complete, honest reporting compels me to get my news coverage elsewhere (L A Times perhaps). You join Fox in coverage that I will not read or watch unless you change your methods of covering Ron Paul so negatively when you cover his success at all.
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by armyvet12b January 20, 2008 2:15 AM PST
Ron Pauls lack of votes is not entirely the medias fault. The main culprit is lazy,complaining, people who wont get off the couch to vote or even spend 20 minutes to read about Dr Pauls beliefs. Even if the public reads his positions they say that makes to much sense but that will never happen! Why? Because were so jaded by our governments performance since WWI?? The greed. The what is Gov gonna do for me crowd... I mean come on look at population levels of the states where the primaries were held look at the total number of votes. The numbers are disgusting! The media and establishment know this and use it to their advantage. Ron Paul has exact plans to fix plans for Americans(remember us? the people in the continental US?) Everyone else will continue to do the same just under a different shade of color. I am sure under the radar there are some powerful people saying if this guy got elected we would be in trouble! Yet in the same breath at some country club or wherever the rich people are they know us regular joes are so caught up in the struggle to raise a family we rashionalize away our liberties by fearing 30 sec sound bytes from familiar faces. Anyway people take some personal responsibility and stop looking
for the Gov to solve you personal problems. The media gets away with it because we let them until the general public gets their act together
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by edla67 January 20, 2008 2:25 AM PST
This is really weird: I dont have CNN but i watch KTLA news here in LA (in Mexifornia), I watched the Nedava results on KTLA news tonight, they DID NOT EVEN MENTION ron paul 2nd place, they showed copious footage of Obama and Billary cheering instead, then Romney winner and then rapidly the 3rd, but no mention of the 2nd place?.....

Journalistic non-excellence and non-neutrality
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by awkeup January 20, 2008 2:30 AM PST
Do you honestly think that we don''t notice that you consistently overlook Dr. Paul''s Presidential campaign & dismiss him (& us) as out of touch? You try your best to make Dr. Paul & his very well thought out & intelligent solutions to our country''s current problems, appear as though they are kooky. The American Constitution is "kooky"? I think not! Cutting back on our government''s huge spending is ridiculous? Getting rid of the Federal Reserve, that''s madness, right? :)

CBS should think about adding a new program to their current line up. We could call it "American Survival". A story line about some really intelligent Americans that spend their hours actually balancing the American budget & locating those lost trillions. We might even be able to file criminal charges against those responsible for & that profited by this mess. I think it would be an automatic hit! The audience could text suggestions & then vote for the individual they thought was doing the best job and pass sentences over the criminals! The story line sounds familiar, but I just can''t place it :)

Let''s get back to real investigative reporting, like that of Mike Wallace, Morley Safer or Ed Bradley? The pablum you are feeding us now is just that, pablum. *** to be innovative & different by covering the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth. I am ashamed of you CBS, I expected much, much better. However, I do thank you for making me read more :) Now back to my book, "Blackwater", a very interesting read.
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by moxford0 January 20, 2008 2:32 AM PST
Ron Paul is several cuts above his Republican rivals which isn''t saying much but every bit helps.
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by bud28dy January 20, 2008 2:50 AM PST
CBS isn''t being biased but just stating the obvious. Paul came in a distant, distant second. He was the only other candidate besides Romeney to campaign in the state. Sorry guys buts that''s the truth, not some voodoo negative spin. The real test was in SC where Paul campaigned as did everyone else except Guliani and Paul got 4% of the vote. It shows that when there is actual competition, Paul fails again miserably. All your whining about the huge conspiracy against you won''t change the fact that your candidate is a chronic 5th place finisher. And why in the world do you think anyone would waste their time involved in a big conspiracy against Paul when he has never been any threat to anyone, except maybe Duncan Hunter. Facts are facts guys, deal with it.
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by edla67 January 20, 2008 3:53 AM PST
Bud28 RonPaul is NOT a ''fringe candidate'' i checked many online polls (avoid these MSM biased polls) and Ron Paul is high, as high as ''big candidates''
Here''s the LAT quickpoll (18000 votes right now), known to be pro-illegal:
22.9% Hillary Clinton
12.6% John Edwards
1.8% Rudy Giuliani
2.6% Mike Huckabee
3.2% Dennis Kucinich
4.5% John McCain
23.7% Barack Obama
24.1% Ron Paul
3.5% Mitt Romney
1.1% Fred Thompson
Facts are facts!
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by imbatible January 20, 2008 4:05 AM PST
RE: bud28dy
Aside from Romney none of the others campaigned in Nevada because they don''t have any money. Giuliani asked people to come phone bank for him but they had to bring there own cell phones to make the calls. Other than Romney and Paul none of the other candidates have enough money to run real campaigns in any of the Super Tuesday states. The only thing saving all the other candidates is the tons of free media coverage that Ron Paul doesn%u2019t get.
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by pearlindutch January 20, 2008 7:23 AM PST
What a boring news article. I am tired with people underestimating Ron Paul. I am not even a big Ron Paul supporter, but the way you "Journalists" are manipulating the public is disgusting. He has money, he has votes, and he has ideas which would benefit America, and every time you downplay his success you are also numbing the public and lying. He is a constitutionalist so why is this guy such a maverick? Ask yourself that. He''s a threat to your job. If Giuliani had finished second in Nevada you would toot your horn for him. Paul finishes second, and you find something negative to add. BRING BACK INTEGRITY!!!!
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by pearlindutch January 20, 2008 7:24 AM PST
What a boring news article. I am tired with people underestimating Ron Paul. I am not even a big Ron Paul supporter, but the way you "Journalists" are manipulating public opinion is disgusting. He has money, he has votes, and he has ideas which would benefit America, and every time you downplay his success you are also numbing the public and lying. He is a constitutionalist so why is this guy such a maverick? Ask yourself that. He''s a threat to your job. If Giuliani had finished second in Nevada you would toot your horn for him. Paul finishes second, and you find something negative to add. BRING BACK INTEGRITY!!!!
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by pearlindutch January 20, 2008 7:25 AM PST
What a boring news article. I am tired with people underestimating Ron Paul. I am not even a big Ron Paul supporter, but the way you "Journalists" are manipulating public opinion is disgusting. He has money, he has votes, and he has ideas which would benefit America, and every time you downplay his success you are also numbing the public and lying. He is a constitutionalist so why is this guy such a maverick? Ask yourself that. He''s a threat to your job. If Giuliani had finished second in Nevada you would toot your horn for him. Paul finishes second, and you find something negative to add. Also: It''s very early in this race. Don''t count Paul out yet.
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by pearlindutch January 20, 2008 7:30 AM PST
What a boring news article. I am tired with people underestimating Ron Paul. I am not even a big Ron Paul supporter, but the way you "Journalists" are manipulating public opinion is disgusting. He has money, he has votes, and he has ideas which would benefit America, and every time you downplay his success you are also numbing the public and lying. He is a constitutionalist so why is this guy such a maverick? Ask yourself that. He''s a threat to your job. If Giuliani had finished second in Nevada you would toot your horn for him. Paul finishes second, and you find something negative to add. Also: It''s very early in this race. Don''t count Paul out yet. You guys are terrible at hiding your agenda. Giuliani is on the meet the candidates portion of your website and he has lost to Ron Paul on numerous occasions.
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by pearlindutch January 20, 2008 7:34 AM PST
What a boring news article. I am tired with people underestimating Ron Paul. I am not even a big Ron Paul supporter, but the way you "Journalists" are manipulating public opinion is disgusting. He has money, he has votes, and he has ideas which would benefit America, and every time you downplay his success you are also numbing the public and lying. He is a constitutionalist so why is this guy such a maverick? Ask yourself that. He''s a threat to your job. If Giuliani had finished second in Nevada you would toot your horn for him. Paul finishes second, and you find something negative to add. Also: It''s very early in this race. Don''t count Paul out yet. You guys are terrible at hiding your agenda. Giuliani is on the meet the candidates portion of your website and he has lost to Ron Paul on numerous occasions. It''s irresponsible to try to drown this man out.
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by awkeup January 20, 2008 8:37 AM PST
Conspiracy theories? Hoaxes? It seems today that if one questions the "facts" our government tells us then one becomes labeled as a nonconformist, paranoid, unAmerican kook. Hogwash!

If I were an investigative reporter I would investigate the truth, whatever it be. One real question I have is why did we not take down Airline Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11? Fact: Then Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified to the 9/11 Commission that Cheney knew well in advance of the attack? Plenty of time to take it down militarily or at least evacuate our citizens from the Pentagon? What is the answer?

Several well intentioned airline pilots were able to get the raw data from the in flight data recorder of Airline Flight 77 (through the Freedom of Information Act) & secretly obtained the software needed to interpret it. It just doesn''t match the official US government version of exactly what happened. Why? Enquiring minds want to know?

I want the truth!
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by ladikiberty January 20, 2008 8:59 AM PST
Take note as many already have the corporate media in this country is dictating your opinion...By not fairly and accurately reporting unbiased facts they control the average citizens perspective on the election...
Just as bad is the fact that many states rely on touchscreen computer scanners to count our votes. Talk about control... These machines have known vote fraud since they were first introduced...Ask any qualified IT guy...Do a youtube or google search on voter fraud... They run a MS program chip and memory card all controlled by the manufacturer... Sounds like a coyote in the hen house scenario to me...But hey who won american idol???who is running and what are the important issues our country faces and what is their solution...Who is CFR? Who is the federal reserve? Who since 1913 has really been running our country and our government??? FACT not us the american citizen, more like corporate america.Btw we have been in a recession for almost 2 years the next stop is a widespread depression... Ck the world money mkt rates of exchange... Very sad hope you wake up in time...
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by jewh1979 January 20, 2008 9:53 AM PST
I am disappointed in why CBS would skip any mention of the success of Ron Paul. CBS is treating any mentioning of Ron Paul would be a joke. He is a real contender with valid ideas of how to make this country a better place- like the creators of this country had. I guess this shows how biased CBS is and who they support as a candidates, even if it means alienating some viewers.
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by awkeup January 20, 2008 10:15 AM PST
What about our cell phones being used by the FBI to activate the microphone & listen in on our conversations, even if they are turned off? Is this a hoax? Is this delusional? Check out this Fox News broadcast. Why is this not HUGE news? This is a blatant invasion of our privacy. Have we, as a society, become so conditioned as to accept this & allow it to continue? Not me!
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by awkeup January 20, 2008 10:18 AM PST
Here''s the YouTube reference with the Fox coverage:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wjEA9gEEfpU
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by tmillerick January 20, 2008 10:42 AM PST
If your happy being part of a military empire nation, then by all means vote Rommney or McCain. Currently 50% of every federal dollar is spent on either defense or homeland security. http://treas.gov/press/releases/reports/additionaltable3.pdf

If you''d actually like to see your tax money spent on making America stronger, then vote Ron Paul.
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by daddysteve1 January 20, 2008 10:43 AM PST
The "media" always portrays the RP supporters as young (i.e.-don,t know any better) Dismissing his views as fringe or crackpot shows a fundamental ignorance of economics and constitutional theory and practice. Although Jerry Browns views were rather different than RPs,he too had valid ideas and plans that spelled real change.How dare he criticize his own party as being as corrupt as the republican party.Naturally he was marginalized and ridiculed.(governor moonbeam) Ron Paul has no chance to win the beauty contest that is politics today and that is sad for our children and their future. Keep printing money and everything will be O.K.
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by daddysteve1 January 20, 2008 10:45 AM PST
The "media" always portrays the RP supporters as young (i.e.-don,t know any better) Dismissing his views as fringe or crackpot shows a fundamental ignorance of economics and constitutional theory and practice. Although Jerry Browns views were rather different than RPs,he too had valid ideas and plans that spelled real change.How dare he criticize his own party as being as corrupt as the republican party.Naturally he was marginalized and ridiculed.(governor moonbeam) Ron Paul has no chance to win the beauty contest that is politics today and that is sad for our children and their future. Keep printing money and everything will be O.K.
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by nomorewars January 20, 2008 11:01 AM PST
This is why ron paul can win, we can do it, we did with kennedy and we can do it with paul.
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by TheArkhamAngel January 20, 2008 11:06 AM PST
What in the world is wrong with Nevada?!? Romney +50%??? *shakes head*
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by ladikiberty January 20, 2008 11:10 AM PST
Take note as many already have the corporate media in this country is dictating your opinion...By not fairly and accurately reporting unbiased facts they control the average citizens perspective on the election...
Just as bad is the fact that many states rely on touchscreen computer scanners to count our votes. Talk about control... These machines have known vote fraud since they were first introduced...Ask any qualified IT guy...Do a youtube or google search on voter fraud... They run a MS program chip and memory card all controlled by the manufacturer... Sounds like a coyote in the hen house scenario to me...But hey who won american idol???who is running and what are the important issues our country faces and what is their solution...Who is CFR? Who is the federal reserve? Who since 1913 has really been running our country and our government??? FACT not us the american citizen, more like corporate america.Btw we have been in a recession for almost 2 years the next stop is a widespread depression... Ck the world money mkt rates of exchange... Very sad hope you wake up in time...
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by majick36 January 20, 2008 11:43 AM PST
i love how ya gotta say that mccain didnt campaign there...what a joke...coz hes about broke thats why! lol! hes on the news every night. most havent even heard of ron paul. another thing, why is it cool for mormons to vote 95% Romney or blacks for obama or women for hillary and they wanna say im a racist or sexist coz i wont vote for them...i guess since im an intelligent white male, i should vote for an intelligent white male...thank god i can vote for ron paul...oh, hes a christian and im not...any atheist candidates i can vote for? id ask people to vote on the issues but why do that when you can vote for a personality...alot of the people who voted for Mccain in NH did so coz they thought he was the candidate to end the war...insane...hes the worst warmonger of them all.
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by dvmoen January 20, 2008 11:44 AM PST
Thank you for posting this information. There are a lot of Ron Paul supporters: some are out in the cold today part of a grass root effort; some are sending in money that is not associated with PACs or Lobby efforts; some are watching on the internet. I will guarentee that ALL Ron Paul supporters are watching the media. So, thank you.
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by happypappy19 January 20, 2008 11:54 AM PST
Go Ron Paul, next to Mitt Romney he is my favorite candidate. Anyone is better than John Lieswhenlipsmove McCain. And Hillary starvingforpower,destroyheropposition Clinton. Keep fighting Dr. Paul.
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by ladikiberty January 20, 2008 12:04 PM PST
Take note as many already have the corporate media in this country is dictating your opinion...By not fairly and accurately reporting unbiased facts they control the average citizens perspective on the election...
Just as bad is the fact that many states rely on touchscreen computer scanners to count our votes. Talk about control... These machines have known vote fraud since they were first introduced...Ask any qualified IT guy...Do a youtube or google search on voter fraud... They run a MS program chip and memory card all controlled by the manufacturer... Sounds like a coyote in the hen house scenario to me...But hey who won american idol???who is running and what are the important issues our country faces and what is their solution...Who is CFR? Who is the federal reserve? Who since 1913 has really been running our country and our government??? FACT not us the american citizen, more like corporate america.Btw we have been in a recession for almost 2 years the next stop is a widespread depression... Ck the world money mkt rates of exchange... Very sad hope you wake up in time...
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by anarchristia January 20, 2008 12:25 PM PST
On the day before and the day of the Nevada caucases, CBS News'' Bill Whittaker reported that Romney campaigned alone, which was false, as Ron Paul campaigned there, physically as well on in the media, as anyone who searched Ron Paul Nevada can verify. On the day of the caucases, Bob Schieffer said Romney''s campaign in Nevada was "uncontested," also false. The only question is whether these falsehoods were uttered in ignorance or by those who knew them to be falsehoods. No reason I can think of speaks well of CBS News journalistic standards.
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by January 20, 2008 12:42 PM PST
The Superdelegates and Unpledged RNC think they can pick our two choices for president, but the people of the United States have other ideas.
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by vilyn1 January 20, 2008 12:42 PM PST
And who got more votes then Hitlery and Obama?? RON PAUL that''s right :) The next president of the U.S.
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by bud28dy January 20, 2008 1:57 PM PST
CBS isn''''t being biased but just stating the obvious. Paul came in a distant, distant second. He was the only other candidate besides Romeney to campaign in the state. Sorry guys buts that''''s the truth, not some voodoo negative spin. The real test was in SC where Paul campaigned as did everyone else except Guliani and Paul got 4% of the vote. It shows that when there is actual competition, Paul fails again miserably. All your whining about the huge conspiracy against you won''''t change the fact that your candidate is a chronic 5th place finisher. And why in the world do you think anyone would waste their time involved in a big conspiracy against Paul when he has never been any threat to anyone, except maybe Duncan Hunter. Facts are facts guys, deal with it.

And why do all of your postings about the "big Nevada second place finish" completely ignore SC where everyone campaigned? Do you ignore every bad fact? Sounds like you are doing a little spin of your own.
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by geecee2 January 20, 2008 2:24 PM PST
Hopefully more Americans will start paying attention to Ron Paul. The man makes sense and has a solid track record. One of many ways to learn about Ron Paul is to read his book "A Foreign Policy of Freedom". Paul needs to continue to engage the current frontrunners. If more people act based on the issues rather than who they (the media) say is expected to win then we will all be better off.
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by jrbrown1989 January 20, 2008 4:47 PM PST
This article failed to mention that the ultra-war monger Duncan Hunter has lived here in Nevada for the last 30 days and got nothing. McCain is from our next door neighbor Arizona and was beaten by the Texan Ron Paul. Ron Paul''s message of non-violence, strong dollar, and small government was music to me and other Nevadans (except the Mormans) who do not want the government in our lives. For those who do, they had plenty of choices.
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by cokeacolafan January 20, 2008 8:18 PM PST
GO RON PAUL!!!!!
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by classicdoc January 20, 2008 8:53 PM PST
Paul''s doing remarkably well. Whether he wins or not, he is bringing a lot of people into politics from a pro-liberty perspective, and that will pay dividends for years to come.
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by malc_from_uk January 21, 2008 9:33 AM PST
I''ve been following RPs campaign from afar and it seems pretty obvious to me that no amount of complaining about media coverage is going to do any good. They (the media) have their orders not to cover Ron Paul in any positive light because he cannot be allowed the republican nomination. Its as crooked as that.
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by libbysdad1 January 21, 2008 10:41 AM PST
Ron Paul is the only man willing to tell the truth. No matter what the election outcome I will not stop or back down from the thieves in Washington who continue to allow the Federal Reserve to steal 600 Billion a year from us till they are exposed for who and what they are, a bunch of thieves that have been ripping us of for nearly a hundred years. Finally this information has come into the light of truth. This is a movement that will be as great as MLK and the civil rights movement, so do not get discouraged or give up, this is a fight for the contitution and civil liberty every where.
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by paladin777-2009 January 21, 2008 12:29 PM PST
Thank you for writing about Dr. Paul; it''s good to hear some buzz about his presidential candidacy.

Let me first preface my comments by saying that I am a Mormon from Salt Lake City. I really believe that Dr. Paul most certainly is in the same league as the big boys. One of the main reasons why Mitt won Wyoming and Nevada is because they are caucus style. Over 1/2 of Romney''s votes came from Mormons, who mobilize very well. Michigan also catered well to Romney as he made extravagant promises to the ailing auto industry. Besides, Michigan residents remember Romney''s father, so that helped him get a bump.

Mormons use the same hierarchy that exists in our religion to dig deep to finance their candidate and they certainly mobilize well politically. Mormons are used to donating; they give 10% of all their income as tithing to their church. I believe that many Mormons who support Romney, even though they might not say it, tend to view him as a religious leader as much as a political one. That is, Mormons feel that they have been slighted in so many ways, now that a Mormon president is a very real possibility; they are rallying behind him almost blindly. No one knows this more than I, since I am a Mormon and have a very difficult time getting my Mormon friends to even consider voting for someone else (like Ron Paul).
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by paladin777-2009 January 21, 2008 12:29 PM PST
Thank you for writing about Dr. Paul; it''s good to hear some buzz about his presidential candidacy.

Let me first preface my comments by saying that I am a Mormon from Salt Lake City. I really believe that Dr. Paul most certainly is in the same league as the big boys. One of the main reasons why Mitt won Wyoming and Nevada is because they are caucus style. Over 1/2 of Romney''s votes came from Mormons, who mobilize very well. Michigan also catered well to Romney as he made extravagant promises to the ailing auto industry. Besides, Michigan residents remember Romney''s father, so that helped him get a bump.

Mormons use the same hierarchy that exists in our religion to dig deep to finance their candidate and they certainly mobilize well politically. Mormons are used to donating; they give 10% of all their income as tithing to their church. I believe that many Mormons who support Romney, even though they might not say it, tend to view him as a religious leader as much as a political one. That is, Mormons feel that they have been slighted in so many ways, now that a Mormon president is a very real possibility; they are rallying behind him almost blindly. No one knows this more than I, since I am a Mormon and have a very difficult time getting my Mormon friends to even consider voting for someone else (like Ron Paul).
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