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Poll results so-far

YES - 29% (states incl: AL, LA, AR, MS, SC, ND, SD, WY)
NO - 62%
Not sure - 9%

[KTM rider]

...doesn’t Ron Paul have a space ship to catch ?.......is anyone listening to him ?

[mdittmar]

ron paul is a moron.

[freespirited]

I want to abolish the Department of Education too. There was never any demonstration of need for it, unless you consider Jimmy Carter’s desire to pay back the teachers unions a legitimate “need.”

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Ping

[jdm]

But what about the contention that Lincoln went to war to put an end to slavery?

"I thought that guy there said
he was in favor of them respirations."

[jwh_Denver]

Yeck, been to AOL twice today. Stupid and inaccurate poll.

[PAR35]

Pandering to the South Carolina and Mississippi voters, it appears.

[dcwusmc]

I tend to agree that Lincoln was dead wrong in fighting the WBTS... no matter his trumped-up excuses...

[kalee]

Well that ruins any hope he had of receiving endorsements from Jesses Jackson and Al Sharpton. :)

[Professional]

War should have never been fought. Sanctions should have been given a chance...some resolutions too.

[jdm]

"We ain't a blog, man!"

[Duchess47]

I’ve held the position that Lincoln was wrong for 45 years - long before Ron Paul. I’ve always supported states rights though and the Constitution.

[chopperman]

Lincoln originally fought to preserve the Union. Originally, the slaves were not to be liberated. Someone doesn’t know their history.

[John123]

He claimed that the Civil War was unnecessary, and that Lincoln "never should have gone to war" to stop slavery.

Ron Paul is dead wrong about that. The Civil War wasn't about freeing the slaves -- it was about keeping the Union together. And the South started the war by firing on Fort Sumter

About halfway through the Civil War -- Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address which called for the end to slavery...

[damondonion]

Paul noted that every nation in Europe got rid of slavery without civil wars; kind of hard to argue with.

But the civil war was also about an issue just as big which was not avoidable, and that was the question of whether the US was going to be able to industrialize (which required tarrifs) or whether we were going to allow England to dump manufactured goods here and essentially continue using us as a colony.

[John123]

Also, the Southern states succeeded because Lincoln was elected. Not because they were afraid Lincoln would free the slaves... but because Lincoln wanted to prevent any new states from having slaves. The Southern states were afraid that eventually, they would be outnumbered in the congress and then... slavery would be outlawed.

So saying Lincoln was wrong for starting the Civil War to free the slaves is ignorant of history.

[BnBlFlag]

A real poll would be much redder. (At least in the South).
Thanks for the ping. I voted earlier off of a link from SHN&V. Oh, what the Hell. Might as well vote again. LOL!
I agree with Paul on this 100%!

[garylmoore]

he wants to abolish the Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Reserve, and the IRS.

Well, I don’t know about the war but I have to agree with him on the above.

[traviskicks]

ping?

[John123]

The poll results don’t say how many people voted... do you have that information?