Where did you get that demographic information?
Up here a lot of old farmers support him, too, not because they smoke dope, but because they remember the Depression, the mess since, and see fiscal policy which has taken us through the equivalent of the Roaring Twenties and to the brink of 1933.
They know what didn't work last time, and are looking for better ideas.
While I don't think Paul would be a good president, at the same time I have taken enough of a look at his ideas for domestic policy and think some of those have merit. A return to Constitutional limitations on the Federal Government would mean a severe downsizing of that institution, and save trillions in Federal expenditures.
I don’t see a cadre of old men in overalls following Paul around to all his events. I don’t see old farmers flooding social media outlets with artificially high support for this guy or taking over CPAC in an attempt to bastardize the event.
I would be curious to chat with these agricultural men you cite. I would like to know:
1) If they thought Abe Lincoln was a tyrant using the Civil War as an excuse to dismantle the Constitution?
2) If they thought 911 was an inside job?
3) If they felt Israel and our support of them was the root of all our foreign policy problems?
4) Iran having a nuke was a good thing because they just want to be relevant to other large powers?
5) If they thought Ronald Reagan was a failure as a President and wanted to be fully “Disassociated” from him?
6) If they thought Heroin should be legalized?
Just curious what their answers would be.