Ron Paul places 1st or 2nd in every straw poll, debate, and active participation survey.

Ron Paul is 1st in YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Meetup, Google, etc. The old media is just too slow to realize what is happening.

Ron Paul has a staggering 52.53 percent of all military contributions. The military service men and women support Ron Paul above all other candidates. So maybe we should listen to the advice of our U.S. troops and vote Ron Paul!

‘Scientific Polls’ at this stage only measure name recognition. Over the next six months Ron Paul will gain name recognition and people will learn about who Ron Paul is. Most people who learn about Ron Paul become major supporters.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were doing about the same in the ‘Scientific Polls’ at this stage in their elections. Ron Paul has tremendous momentum and his support is growing exponentially. The other candidates are stagnant. Only Ron Paul’s support is growing and will continue to grow!

Visit YouTube and search Ron Paul to learn more…

As a thoroughly informed uber-libertarian, I can *humbly* say that not only will RP likely win a landslide, but he is EXACTLY right on just about every position he has. There was a time, not too long ago, when rural schoolkids were taking calculus at 12 years old. That’s what you get when you take an HONEST approach to your lives. Look at the homeschoolers: when you get away from government education, the kids win national spelling bees. Homeschoolers completely outperform public school kids. This is true for ANY government “service”. The market outperforms central planning. A fully armed society (see Switzerland) basically cannot be attacked or conquered. Honest people need few courts.

It is the real nature of government that is the source for all its failures: it is FORCE. Nothing more. Government is a gun to enforce a rule, NOTHING more.

And when a bully beats you up because you won’t obey whatever idiot “rule” he made up today, he only makes you more likely to eventually go ballistic on him with a baseball bat.

Ron Paul is America telling the neo-cons nicely “I’m warning your ass for the last time”. If you are an American, you should know that if they pull another self-inflicted terror attack, the hot revolution will be unavoidable. The baseball bat will start swinging, and the bullies are going to be very, very sorry.

Value your mind.

@2 – I partially agree with your second statement. Political campaigns target the older demographics (older generations are, and have been, more likely to vote (whether it’s because they are more interested or because they have more at state)). However, I don’t think that it’s fair to discount the young voters. As we saw in the last election, young voters are more likely to come to the polls when they are fired up about a particular candidate (whether they are for or against) or issue. Unfortunately for young people, older generations are also more likely to vote when they’re fired up about a particular candidate or issue so they’re increased participation was all for naught.

@16 – I have to take issue with your assesment here. The big difference that I see in his campaign is that there is much more public involvement. Meetup.com has been a, if not the, driving force behind his campaign. The meetup groups have been taking out their own advertisements (a Kansas City couple paid for their own billboard; the Seattle group is planning on paying for advertisements on buses) and done their own campaigning at local events (I live in the Seattle area and can tell you that I have been seeing his supporters everywhere (sign-wavers, bumper stickers, political and entertainment venues)). That is why I believe that his supporters are somewhat different than HD’s supporters. Will this turn into actual votes? Who knows. We’ll just have to wait and see (I do feel more encouraged by the recent campaign contribution reports).

@21 – Well said.

@22 – Very good point. But, like I said before, I think that the meetup factor may change things this time around. There is definitely a more organized effort on the net to get things out into the mainstream and I think that it *may* change things.

@40 – I do believe that those numbers (whether they be for RP or any other candidate) are inflated. Having been to several meetings, I can tell you that many of the members do not show. However, given that he does have more supporters on Meetup.com than the other candidates, I still think that the groups are a major contributing factor (to quote RP) and that he does have a healthy lead over the other candidates in terms of supporter participation.

I would not be surprised if I saw online voting in my lifetime (I think that the election officials need to work out the problems with electronic voting before we make that monumental jump (think back to the reports of electronic voting that favored Bush – http://www.cs.b...tudents/SS8.pdf)). I think that with the introduction of electronic voting machines, we are heading in that direction. That said, I think that the internet (provided that it stays neutral) will prove to be the great equalizer that is already touted as. I think that what we are seeing in terms of internet campaigning will slowly become the mainstream as the generations age (thereby ensuring more familiarity with the internet).

As a side note, I do wish that we (by we I mean RP supporters, and I include myself in that “we” only hesitantly) would stop veering off topic on these comment boards. I think that it’s important to address lies and misquotes, but there are places to do that. If we had never went off-topic on this board, people like Seth would never have popped up. As it was, we steered the conversation away from the subject and are now echoing our own thoughts. Please try to keep the conversations civil and on-topic.

His appeal is simple. He is pure. He follows the constitution and never veers from that path. How can anyone call this a bad thing?

Enough of voting for the 2 party nonsense thaqt we have assumed is the harsh reality of the electorate.

In any case, there was a cool article today ( http://www.agor...id_article=6473 ) bringing up the fact that a recent election in South Korea was driven by online support for a liberal candidate in a conservative controlled government. We’ve all heard the Korea is a few years in the future, and I suspect we’ll truly see this situation coming to pass in the US and around the world. Whether it’s Ron Paul, or the person after him, the web will change politics forever.
With that said, Go Ron Paul! Nothing excites me more than change

I missed my opportunity but wanted to reply “hmm, if all of the intelligent people you know are backing Ron Paul, maybe they know something you don’t”.

It does very much matter. What you are saying that the Constitution is just a guideline that the Federal government can massage to their hearts’ content.

Living Constitutions are Dead Letters.

At this stage, I am very happy to be able to support someone that wants to restore the rule of law to the usurping Central government.

BTW, I am not a libertarian.

Isolationism in the general sense isn’t tied to trade, it’s usually regarding military treaties and such. when the Monroe doctrine was brought to life we entered into a period of incredible trade growth – mostly because we stayed neutral in many military conflicts.

In terms of Paul, I think he’s a libertarian in many ways and isolationism is a tenet of their beliefs. I can respect that.