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Also I would add; I think Paul is going to do better than people think; sigh.... He is taking the people that Palin could have energized into a strong Reagan type coalition. Many of these Paul supporters see Paul as the nuclear bomb to throw in the middle of things to try to radically remake the system. They are willing to overlook his fatal foreign policy flaws.

Horse feathers!

I believe a lot of Ron Paul’s support is cynical (follow the money). Young people "looking forward" to no jobs in the Obama depression, or working on degrees in areas where government money could fund a study, a program (their professors have sucked on this tit for decades) -- instead of being “wasted” to support the "evil" military and “misguided” war on drugs -- which also ties into what they've been taught in many institutions of higher education -- so many useless degrees and “green” thinkers believing that Ron Paul is the Rx for what ails the country. So they're leaving support for Barack “hope and change” Obama at the school house/no job market door and flocking to Ron Paul which has the sweetener of hurting those “evil-rich” conservatives who are destroying the planet and are ready to “bomb” the world.

The problem for them is -- they never will get the money; it always finds another home. With the debt and deficit ballooned out of sight, that money isn't heading in their direction. The naturally productive ones will eventually “grow up” and realize the truth about living in a safe, free market society but many will hang fast to the hope (libertarians for sure) that once the "war on drugs" and the "evil military complex” have their wings clipped, some of those trillions of “wasted” dollars will certainly flow to them. It won't and their lot will be worse. We have for too long been building “me-me-itis” generations, whose values and goals are nurtured and fanned by teachings of socialist professors spawned in the Sixties who have multiplied themselves with our youth.

So Ron Paul is their cup of tea. They’re only one step away from OWS (most likely have a foot in both camps already). If Ron Paul definitively said, "I will not run third Party," much of his support would evaporate today. Which is precisely why he has not ruled it out.

Well I think your analysis is wrong. He has all kinds of people supporting him unfortunately. The segment I am talking about; would be on our side if we had a Palin/Reagan conservative.
But we don't; and they are throwing in the towel. These are people that won't take any time to work in the system to help fix things; they are lazy in a way.
They are willing however to stand back and lob the Ron Paul Molotov cocktail in the middle of the process.
They see no benefit to any of the current candidates.

Again this is my opinion; based on observing a few folks I have heard speak.

Well I think your analysis is wrong. He has all kinds of people supporting him unfortunately. The segment I am talking about; would be on our side if we had a Palin/Reagan conservative.
But we don't; and they are throwing in the towel. These are people that won't take any time to work in the system to help fix things; they are lazy in a way.
They are willing however to stand back and lob the Ron Paul Molotov cocktail in the middle of the process.
They see no benefit to any of the current candidates.

Again this is my opinion; based on observing a few folks I have heard speak.

What is also true about that “voting block”, these young and restless people you outlined, never put their money, OR their time where their mouth is. They talk a good and noble fight, but never deliver.

Any poll that includes this group as a major factor, never proves accurate on election day. Perhaps for the reasons I mentioned above.

I still think that Ron Paul will lose Iowa to Newt when it comes down to it. There are way too many “undecided” voters out there who do have a brain, and when they even think of the possibility that the most dangerous candidate in our history threatens to win, they will come out in droves for Newt, in the name of logical restraint.