“As for everyone else, Ron Paul won 1,305 votes, a number that many people thought might be higher until it turned out that a lot of the very vocal Paul fans wandering around the ISU campus were from out of state.” Gee, what a surprise.
I would add that not only were lots of Ron Paul supporters from out of state, but also out of mind.
“As for everyone else, Ron Paul won 1,305 votes, a number that many people thought might be higher until it turned out that a lot of the very vocal Paul fans wandering around the ISU campus were from out of state.”
That’s not very smart... At least Romney drew his supporters from in-state so they could vote. Shipping in a bunch of folks to an event who can’t even vote in the event is as backwards minded as can be - but seems just about right for a lot of the Paul supporters I’ve seen posting here.
“Gee, what a surprise.”
No kidding. Every election cycle, some candidate chases the kooky college vote. It never materializes but they will do the same next cycle. The very definition of insane. Nothing against Paul but I don’t know how his “conservative” followers can stand to be in the same camp as the anti-war hippie college kids. You lie down with dogs...
Also, why can’t his followers see that most of this “vocal” support is just liberals chanting the same old chants?
Paul got nearly 10 percent, despite campaigning far less in Iowa than Huckabee, Tancredo, Hunter, Brownback, or Romeney, thus putting to rest the constant harping here that his support is “less than 1 percent.”
Indeed, 1305 might be the total number of L.Ron fans in all of Iowa.