Posted on 05/17/2007 9:40:43 AM PDT by KuernoDeChivo
Would just be beyond you that people that support Paul are younger and are more apt to vote in online polls than establishment sorts who are older wouldn't it?
Perhaps your 'poll' was spammed, perhaps it wasn't. But interesting isn't it that many on the right that claim spamming are also the sorts that tell us to write left leaning organizations and voice our concerns (i.e. O'Reilly telling people to call state organizations to force passage of this latest law he's hawking, Freepers posting 'Freep this poll', etc.)
I saw the poll. One claim was that it must be cheating since there were more votes for Paul at the main site than others. Well I voted for Paul, once a week every week when the poll was up on the main site. Forgive me if I didn't have time to go looking for other sites to cast my vote. That was the only site I knew where it was and I didn't have time to go searching for a damn widget across the internet. I didn't know that was considered 'cheating' or 'spamming'
I'm not saying you're right or wrong. But I'll say this. When my 60+ year old conservative Christian parents a few weeks ago ask me who Ron Paul is, listened to the first debate, and now call me on a daily basis to tell me what they've heard about him or who they spoke to about his campaign, or co-workers who I know to be politically apathetic are fired up ready to vote for Paul in the primary, you're going to eventually have to accept that this deal with Paul may be a bit more than claiming 5 spammers are hitting the poll just because you don't like the damned results.
Or you can just continue the establishment media Fox claim that 6 people (probably liberal too huh?) cast thousands of votes by text message. You have nominees that aren't even officially in the race. At least Paul has paid his fees and deserves to be treated like a candidate just like the 'me-too' crowd of Brownback, Thompson, etc.(many of which he's scored higher in several polls)
Michigan GOP leader wants Paul barred from future debates[Ron Paul]
AP | 16 May 2007 | Jim Davenport
Posted on 05/17/2007 11:01:52 AM EDT by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835140/posts
“...The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy... “Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years,” Paul said.
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