“I don’t know if they’re real or not, but I’m seeing an awful lot of Ron Paul signs in people’s yards around where I live - and these are not crack neighborhoods either - regular middle-class homes.”
“Same story here in Virginia. The only signs I see in people’s yards are Ron Paul signs and I see them in respectable middle class neighborhoods. Also the only bumper stickers I’m seeing are Ron Paul and Obama and RP outnumbers Obama by roughly 3 to 1. Lots of military with RP stickers on their cars, too. From where I stand, the Ron Paul thing is for real.”
Same everywhere in Oklahoma and a significant part of Western Washington state.
During the last cycle, when "everyone knew" that Dean was going to be the nominee, all of the liberals I talked to said the same thing, "I know Dean is going to be nominee but Im voting for Kerry." The only D supporting signs that I had seen around here were for Kerry. Despite what the media was telling us, I just couldnt see the D nominee being anyone but Kerry.
I have not checked the veracity of this but am told that at this point in the process, Kerry was at about 4% in the polls.
Could it be that the availability of information created by the internet is causing there to be a growing trend amongst voters to knowingly and actively reject the candidates pre-annointed by the National Committees?
Im hoping so...
When Dean was rejected, and it was obvious that the reason was not "the scream" despite what this forum and right-wing radio believed, I wondered if the Dean loss was engineered by the DNC by building the Dick Morris roach spray strategy into the process or whether the DNC was simply ignoring the will of the electorate like the RNC does.
Ditto here in Oregon/SW Washington. I’ve seen more Ron Paul signs and bumper stickers than I would have thought.
Yesterday, I was driving home, and passed a Ron Paul convoy of some sort...several cars and minivans with huge signs and stickers supporting him.
I’m not crazy about some of his positions, frankly...but I admit that he does have a certain level of actual support out there.