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That’s actually not how it worked. For one thing, the campaign has been insisting that there was no bussing in of people. One bus came from Jackson County, MS, that was an official GOP bus, but it’s possible some RP supporters were on it.

Here’s the thing that you’re missing. Ron Paul supporters are very enthusiastic right now. They’re spending their own money to get there, and sometimes, if they’re poor, they have “chip-ins” where other supporters pay expenses of the poorer people who plan to go.

Ron Paul Forums is about as big as Free Republic. And theres also Daily Paul. There are just a lot of hard core supporters. The campaign wasn’t talking up this straw poll, the campaign did nothing to hype it. But the grassroots (which is what Ron Paul Supporters call themselves when they’re disobeying the campaign), or part of it, was enthused about this straw poll. 600 pushed to the straw poll from Ron Paul Forums and the other Ron Paul sites just isn’t surprising to me.

What’s surprising is that other candidates don’t have anything like this level of organization.

Free Republic is almost entirely 100% Palin. Free Republic should step up and help Palin. The last time Ron Paul won a poll I said the same thing.

I said, Free Republic has done some mighty things in the past, and should do mighty things again. Jim Rob most certainly likes Palin, and wouldn’t 600 more Palin votes be something that Free Republic could pull off? I’d like to see something like that on FR, and for Palin.