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.”
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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Clinton 5,326
Obama 4,739
This is the real story!!
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)
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!
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!
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%
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
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?
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
Journalistic non-excellence and non-neutrality
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.
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!
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.
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!
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...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wjEA9gEEfpU
If you''d actually like to see your tax money spent on making America stronger, then vote Ron Paul.
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...
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...
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.
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).
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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