Notice the 6.5% support of FR members vs the 28.8% support of non member votes. 181 member votes, less than he got in Iowa Alamaba.
Posted on 08/18/2007 1:36:47 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
Ron Paul received 216 votes for a commanding first-place finish in a straw poll today sponsored by the West Alabama Republican Assembly. Mitt Romney came in second with 14 votes.
The poll was open to Alabama residents.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.ronpaul2008.com ...
Ron Paul won big earlier today in Alabama. He also won big in New Hampshire this afternoon.
Dr. Paul received 208 votes (73%) for a landslide victory against Mitt Romney today at the Strattford County, New Hampshire straw poll. Romney received 26 votes. Mike Huckabee came in third with 20 votes.
Tancredo (8 votes), McCain (7 votes), Cox (5 votes), Hunter (5 votes), Thompson (5 votes), Giuliani (3 votes) and Brownback (1 vote) finished the field.
Not only that, but the attacks are getting far more desperate, and the Anti-Paul mouth foamers slap each other on the backs for the lamest of comments.
At first I thought that the comments from some Paul supporters that the attacks were due to the fact that the mouth foamers were afraid of him were weak. Sure, Paul is great I thought, but he has no name recognition and probably won't raise much money. Why would they be afraid? Now he's showing a lot of momentum, between his good results in several straw polls and his excellent fund raising success. And since that's happened the attacks are just getting more and more desperate, to the point where some of them are just...weird (He's a truther! Anti-Semite!). I have to wonder whether some fear actually is starting to set in among these people.
They seem to have the biggest block of voters for Ron Paul. Please show me a conservative site that really supports him.
Which category would an election fall under? "Random sampling" or "self-selection"?
Another thing, this is not the first Paul thread in over a week...
On the fear part, stay with that. It will be cheaper and less addictive than Restoril...
Maybe Ron Paul will pick up the same kind of momentum that Tommy Thompson picked up with his huge straw poll landslide a couple of weeks ago.
Self-selection. But an election is not an attempt to predict an outcome. An election IS the outcome.
I know a number of dems that have professed support of RP. They are serious about voting for him.
Her/his argument was totally coherent to me.
I think you are over-interpreting the results. The Republican Assemblies groups are not the official party. They do some good things, but they are just a social club outside the party. This event, like many straw polls, was a fundraiser, and not every campaign is going to make a big effort to participate in every fundraiser. The Iowa straw poll is significant because many campaigns make an effort to win in Iowa, and the straw poll is a good indicator of strength throughout Iowa. How many times has this event been held in the past? How many of the winners of this event have gone on to win the Alabama primary? If you can show that correlation, you have a good case for this one being meaningful. If not, you are a ways from being able to make that argument.
I congratulate you on being able to assemble over 200 of Dr. Paul's supporters to spend their money to show support for Dr. Paul. I haven't checked his campaign finance reports in a while, but if his supporters are being generous and giving to his campaign beyond these straw polls, that's another good sign for him. Another issue is whether these people are willing to knock on doors and make phone calls for Dr. Paul. If they are willing to participate in those parts of the process, they could help move things in Dr. Paul's favor.
Bill
Ouch...
And as I said earlier, real folks from across the political spectrum, not the kooks from the fringes who are trying to make them look bad.
They seem to have the biggest block of voters for Ron Paul. Please show me a conservative site that really supports him.
Paul's support is not relegated to a specific website. His support is broad-based from all over the Internet. BTW, there are plenty of folks here on FR who support Paul.
Q) Whats the difference between a porcupine and a bus load of Ron Paul supporters?
A) On a porcupine the pricks are one the outside!
Hardy har har. I’m slapping my knee here.
Few of them are as reasonable or coherent as you. No, I'm not being snarky or sarcastic.
You’ve not read anywhere on any thread any bloviating comments from me regarding a single candidate for the 08 election. And I don’t lose my head over some moronic straw poll from any state during the run up to the primaries. But, hey, go right ahead and hang you hat on this. Place all your eggs into the basket of RP. When the smoke clears we’ll all see who made asses of themselves with their own words. Enjoy while you can.
Then:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882642/posts
Notice the 6.5% support of FR members vs the 28.8% support of non member votes. 181 member votes, less than he got in Iowa Alamaba.
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