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If you build it, they will come.

If by ‘it’ you mean a campaign war chest, and by ‘they’ you mean the media.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the newly validated Ron Paul, who set an all-time GOP mark for one-day campaign fundraising on Monday, according to the Associated Press:

Paul's total deposed Mitt Romney as the single-day fundraising record holder in the Republican presidential field. When it comes to sums amassed in one day, Paul now ranks only behind Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, who raised nearly $6.2 million on June 30, and Barack Obama.

Ron Paul’s big haul was proof that he is the candidate of the Internet constituency this year – devoting a website to the one-day effort – no doubt aided by linking it to Guy Fawkes and the Wachowski Brothers’ film “V for Vendetta.”

(I mean, really. Can you imagine a better hook for Internet people than the guys who made the “Matrix” movies?)

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