As Tucker Carlson said during tonight’s opening, many libertarians differ on certain issues. And with Jesse Ventura announcing his possible 2012 run for president, I’d like to see an internet-powered survey of all the members of the Campaign for Liberty. Perhaps in the next four years, we can prepare a few candidates that represent our disjunct views on libertarian values. I would like to see a site evolve where I can put in my views on tens to hundreds of different issues, and find others that agree with me. Those who agree with the most people, have impressive resumes, and are eligible for candidacy in 2012.
If we can come to some sort of consensus on what we as a “party” believe, perhaps we can put forward one or more candidates in 2012 that will gain the support of the majority.
Within ten minutes of posting that Ron Paul had 18% of the vote, Cherry Creek news removed all references to Ron Paul from its article. Also, it appears that their results for McCain went from 19% to 11% somehow. This is proven by the snippet found on Google News. Depending on Google News, this may or may not update there.
Contact them to tell them to add Ron Paul back into their results. This distortion is unacceptable. How could they have screwed up their results so much? I mean, confusing McCain as 19% rather than 11%? Weird…
Update
After a little more detective work, I managed to reconstruct most of the original paragraph. Most of it is the same as the new one. It looks like they just removed a section about the Echo Boomers, who are supporting Ron Paul 18%. Here it is:
Rudy Giuliani is still the top choice for Echo Boomers followed by Mike Huckabee (28% and 21% respectively), but John McCain moves into third place (19%) and Ron Paul jumps into 4th place with 18 percent of this generation’s support.
So, tell Cherry Creek News to put back in its Echo Boomer results, which are apparently the generation of people between 18 and 30.
Update 2
They told me to “get a life.” Wow - what a fair and honest publication. I don’t know why they won’t add Dr. Paul back into their article after these amazing polling results that obviously show he is neck and neck with Huckabee with young people. Boycott Cherry Creek News.
So, I keep seeing people posting comments around that say Ron Paul is a racist, and most of them refer to a 1992 mailing list post he allegedly wrote. This posting was controversial because it portrayed inner city Blacks in a bad light. It was protesting against the lack of police action against rioting, the Rodney King scandal, and inner city crime committed by Blacks. Now, I don’t think he was inferring that only Black people commit crime, or are predisposed to it by their race; quite the contrary in fact.
I saw a post on Digg that caught my eye, and thought that this might be another way to gauge the amount of hardcore supporters each popular candidate has. I picked the following:
Now, you would think that the number of hardcore supporters should correlate nicely with the number of voters turning out in the primaries since one should think that anyone in a Meetup group would go vote come primary day. But, sadly, by the looks of it very few of the supporters of the “top-tier” Republican candidates are enthusiastic enough to join a Meetup group. I wonder why since this would help their campaigns immensely. Here’s the result:
Maybe they’re all just using a different site? Let me know what you think.
If you think about it, Ron Paul is very different from his fellow Republican nominees, and he currently has a fairly large following. Think down the road when the primary happens. If the Republican party doesn’t put Ron Paul in front, and instead picks Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani, all of the voters that like Ron Paul will write in Ron Paul on the final ballot, abstain from voting, etc. This will cause an imbalance of votes on the Republican side, losing the party the election. Think about it. 50% or more of the nation will be voting for the Democratic candidate. If our votes are split, nobody wins (except the other party).
There’s also a downside to this. If Ron Paul wins the primary, the Republicans who oppose him might do the same thing unless someone tells them that the Democrats will win if they don’t support him. It comes down to this:
Ron Paul must win the primary for the Republican party to win the election
The Ron Paul crowd will not vote for any other Republican candidate, but the rest of the party will vote for Ron Paul when their other option is putting a Democrat in office. Let them know.
Well, he’s done it again. More than 60% of voters in the ABC News poll believe that Ron Paul won the debate again. He also lost over 1000 votes when ABC reset its polls.
Here are the rankings as of 7AM EDT Aug. 6th:
In this Article, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann try to say that John McCain won the debate. Fox News totally lied about it. They’re a bunch of crooks. He didn’t according to thousands and thousands of polled viewers. Here is the screenshot:
Wow. Looks like we need a scientific poll with more media coverage than anything else including celebrities. How about this: a news network that doesn’t cover anything celebrities do unless it’s something they’d cover if the person wasn’t a celebrity (shooting, etc.). It’ll never happen though :(.
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