Paul's support among young people is pretty strong and they are active young people. The money is another significant factor because it indicates a wide level of individual support. Last the media and political operatives are with success trying to paint Paul as a nut-case, but in these first primaries the people get to meet the candidates and in person you see that he is not by any measure a nut case. He has some extreme ideas but not as extreme as what we have seen form the Bush administration. These ideas have traction.

While McCarthy was a college professor and was a single issue candidate - the Vietnam War - he changed the political landscape in 1968. The people are slowly turning a deaf ear to the Mainstream Media and I think this year we will see a lot of surprises.

You can fool all the people some of the time. some of the all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. We are in Lincolns third phase. We are tired of being treated like docile idiots.

Paul may get only single digits, but don't be too surprised if he does better and there should be a lot of other surprises.

Thomas Jefferson

Ron Paul has more money than his opponents and is just starting to gain momentum. As a result of massive popular support Paul’s donor base is huge and donors are not close to reaching contribution limits. Paul’s opponents are going broke and their donors are maxed out. Ron Paul may raise 20 million this quarter and chances are he’ll raise more the next quarter.

To get an idea of how strong Paul’s support is consider this. Ron Paul received donations from over 123,000 people this quarter. If one out of 100 voters donate to a presidential candidate that means Paul has the support of over 12 million primary voters. My guess is that less than 1 out of 100 voters donate in a primary.

Of Paul’s opponents, John McCain and Mike Huckabee are broke and don’t have the funds to compete on Super Tuesday. Both candidates appear to be media creations in this election and don’t have that much popular support. If it weren’t for undeserved free media they wouldn’t be on the radar screens.

Giuliani was forced to go with his big state strategy because he ran the risk of getting creamed in early primaries. He appears to be a lead balloon and runs the risk of losing some of those big states to Paul. Thompson just hasn’t taken off. There is a chance he could get revived in South Carolina but he may not make it that far.

Romney is self financing his campaign and can go the distance, but how much of his personal wealth is he willing to squander?

Recent commentaries and political talk have mentioned the possibility of a brokered convention. This is an early admission by pundits that Ron Paul can’t be stopped, and a hope that he won’t have 50% of the delegates allowing his opponents to broker a deal to deny him the nomination.

Paul is unique among GOP candidates because his support is national. He can compete in every state.

The primary calendar has been frontloaded which was deliberate to keep second tier candidates (candidates not bought and paid for) from having a shot at winning the nomination. It is doubtful that when planning the schedules anybody had a clue that Ron Paul would be one of the only candidate that could be competitive on February 5th

Iowa, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada, South Carolina, Florida, Maine are all up for grabs prior to Super Tuesday which is on February 5th. Given the low expectations Paul only needs to win one of these to show that he can win prior to Super Tuesday.

The Iowa caucus on January 3rd will be a tough start for Paul. He hasn’t spent that much time in Iowa and may not have the organization that Romney does to win the caucus. Placing in the top five is all that is needed there. A third place would be huge.

Two days later on January 5th is the Wyoming Caucus. This state is a neighbor of Utah and Romney may have a strong organization here as well. Paul may do well here though.

January 8th in New Hampshire is where the campaign really starts for Ron Paul. He doesn’t need to win it but he probably will. Buchanan won this state in 1996 running on similar campaign themes with 27% of the vote. Paul’s support is much broader.

Paul’s odds look good for Michigan on January 15th. The state is a foreclosure war zone and Paul’s blaming of the Federal Reserve for creating a housing crash may resonate well.

January 19th Nevada and South Carolina are up for elections. Paul should win Nevada and has an outside shot at South Carolina.

On January 29th Florida is up. This is the state where Giuliani has circled his wagons. If he’s still in the race it will be an uphill battle for him especially if Paul has momentum generated by a couple victories. There is evidence of Paul support in Florida on the ground just by observing bumper stickers and yard signs on residences but Giuliani also has some visible support.

Of course, if Paul wins New Hampshire the momentum generated from that victory is likely to steam roll his campaign through all of the above mentioned states setting him up for the knock out punch on Super Tuesday.

If Ron Paul doesn’t have the nomination sewed up on Super Tuesday, Paul’s delegate rich home state of Texas will be the final nail in the coffin come March.

The point is it is already too late to stop Paul. He’s going to win the Republican nomination.

As a general election candidate Ron Paul will win a 50 state landslide against any Democratic nominee.

Ron Paul’s opposition to the war in Iraq, and defense of the Bill of Rights, and Civil Liberties, may actually dig deeply into the Democratic vote and overwhelmingly attract independents to his campaign.

His support for secure borders as an integral part of national defense is also a very popular issue that transcends parties.

If Ron Paul is the GOP nominee it won’t matter if Bloomberg or anybody else runs as a third party candidate. Once people go to Paul’s website and review his issues and record they either reject Paul’s ideas or they are sold. Paul will not lose any supporters to another candidate once they are in his camp.

Unlike media propaganda, the ideals of peace, freedom, and prosperity, are very mainstream. To the aging baby boomer population now on fixed incomes, Ron Paul’s challenging of the Federal Reserve’s ‘Inflation Tax’ is most welcomed. To the rest of America feeling the double whammy of an ‘Inflation Tax’ and progressive federal income taxes, Paul’s calls to end the income tax are a cause for celebration.

In fact, Paul’s calls for reforming the monetary system, the income tax, foreign policy, and protecting the Constitution, are a lot more mainstream than pre-emptive nuclear war, no borders, and a police state are.

Those media generated polls are as valuable as the media propaganda that pushed the nation to war in Iraq. People should have as much faith in polls as they do the Easter Bunny and computerized voting. Ron Paul is going to win by a landslide

Campaign fundraising- Paul Leads... Individual donors- Paul leads... Grassroots organization and number of volunteers- Paul leads... Attendance at rallies and campaign appearances- Paul Leads... Number of Yard Signs- Paul leads... amount of support from INDIVIDUALS on Myspace, Facebook and other Social Networking sites- Paul Leads... Number of searches on GOOGLE for the last year, six months, month, week and day- Paul Leads... Number of website hits- Paul Leads... Number ov individuals with pro-candidate websites- Paul leads... Text message, On-line, any polls OTHER than Major Media Corporation PHONE polls- Paul leads...

If ANY of the other candidates had half of the support listed above, they would be hailed as the next coming of George Washington! But since Ron Paul opposes much of what the OWNERS of the mainstream media outlets MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM, he is ignored, slandered and lied about. His real support is minimized and discounted, since publicizing it would show how much the American Public is dusillusioned and disgusted with 'business as usual' in Washington D.C.

A vote for ANYONE other than Ron paul is a wasted vote, as the rest of the field just stands for a continuation of the corruption, waste, greed and rape of the American Citizenry that has accelerated over the last seven years.

Don't Wast Your Vote- Make it count for something REAL! Vote for ROn Paul!

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Latest Rasmussen poll. Curious how 10 points off the lead is "invisible"? Well, we'll know in a week if Dr. Paul is as "invisible" as this "reporter" leads us to believe or not, won't we?

While none of us will know until the votes are counted...there is support for Ron Paul in spite of the media blackout, alot of it and it's growing. DO NOT WRITE HIM OFF.
Do not be surprised if he wins New Hampshire
out right, that's right - first f...ing place
to all you Political spin masters and Hillary / GW Bush lap dogs that pretend to be news casters !

If YOU are tired of the B.S. GOOGLE RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008

We, the active military, aren't allowed to sound in on politics, publicly. We would be punished if we did and could be identified. RP wants to withdraw us from Iraq. Who do you think the majority of us support?

Going by the amount of campaign contributions from active duty military personnel, it looks like Ron Paul is the guy that the majority of you support.
Since you asked.