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I still think the Ron Paul vote isn’t revealing, because he’s the candidate all the democrat activists are voting for — they ARE watching our debate, like we watch theirs, and they are all choosing to vote for the anti-war candidate to embarrass the republican party and the president, and because frankly that’s all they care about anyway, anti-war.

Since half the country is democrat, Ron Paul easily wins with half the country splitting their vote among the other 9 candidates.

Well, I'm not going to go back and quote myself but I did reference the strong possibility that Dims were texting to support RP. But you might check our own online poll which I admit surprised me too.

Maybe more people will start to realize exactly why so many of us have opposed open primaries, let alone motor-voter. This may be the election that wakes the rest of you up.

You know, if Hitlery manages to establish such a commanding lead over other Dims, don't you suppose the HuffPost/KosKidz will be perfectly happy to cross over and vote in that nice GOP open primary for Ron Paul?

Yeah, I'm thinking they just might. You could see Ron Paul at levels around 10%-15% by the time you toss in the CP and LP voters who are also very likely to vote for RP.

If the Iraq surge goes badly or stalls or the GOP's first string stalemates each other, RP could actually move up far more.

Just as Giuliani hopes to capture the nomination being pro-war (but opposed to the party platform on other major issues), Ron Paul hopes to capture support by embracing all the classic Party Of Reagan agenda but opposing the Iraq war (something not in the GOP platform).

Think of what Soros (or Bloomberg) might do in sending money to support Ron Paul. Or just the KosKidz if they all decided to PayPal even $1 to RP. And Silicon Valley loves Ron Paul.

It's kind of a crazy candidate field and the general, with Bloomberg thrown in, might be even worse.