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Posted on 11/14/2007 12:41:26 PM PST by jmc813
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is forcing polls to adjust and quickly. A poll released Tuesday by CBS and NY Times shows Paul at 8% in New Hampshire ahead of Fred Thompson and tied with McCain in Iowa.
This follows polls released by the Boston Globe in association with the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, and the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion that also showed Ron Paul passing Fred Thompson in New Hampshire.
“The polls confirm what we already know: Congressman Paul is catching on in the early primary states,” said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. “His unifying message of freedom, peace, and prosperity is resonating strongly with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and we’re rapidly gaining support nationwide.”
The CBS-New York Times poll was conducted November 2-12. On November 5, the Ron Paul campaign brought in a record-breaking $4.2 million online, and an additional $1 million to end the week.
Yesterday John Zogby told Sean Hannity that Ron Paul may embarrass some frontrunners in New Hampshire by getting 15-18% of the vote.
The adjustments by pollsters and pundits polling results regarding Ron Paul raise the issue of whether polls are an inaccurate and lagging indicator of a candidates support. Paul had been sitting at 1-2% for months in media generated polls despite raising considerable funds and drawing large crowds. Paul rallied a crowd of 5,000 in Philadelphia last weekend.
Fox News and the Iowa GOP have decided to use 5% in Iowa or National polls as a bar to exclude candidates from a presidential debate in early December. Visit the USA Daily Forum to discuss this and other issues.
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NH is such a tiny place, it is easy for RP to gain traction, but I will say the Paul supporters do really burn the midnight oil on all of this stuff...
#1. Migrants from the South (MA specifically)
#2. Fred hasn't bent over to kiss the collective butts of eveyone at those stupid "town hall" meetings.
I don't think it's midnight oil they are burning....more like the wackey weed.
That too..;)
I think most of Paul’s supporters burn something other than oil...
There's an old apocryphal story about New Hampshire. A reporter asked a potential voter "What do you think about Ricahrd Nixon?" The voter responded "I don't know yet, I only met him 3 times".
Fred hasn't met anyone 3 times.
Because too many Hampsters eat all that maple taffy, maple jelly beans, maple coffee, etc. in New Hampshire and it kinda clogs up the arteries in the brain......that's why.
We can also point to the Dem transplants from New York City (who have made the state so liberal) who eat all those pastrami sandwiches which have the exact same effect on the little grey cells.
Hopeless in New Hampshire on any culinary level, I guess.
Leni
Unfortunately, to beat the witch, I'm afraid we are going to need somebody who will outwork her. Thus far, I haven't seen Fred doing it.
Ron Paul could win in NH. That state has a history of big upsets and voting for wacky candidates.
I am pretty sure that Fred will get Georgia and Alabama. That would be a good sample. New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, Florida are probably not going to be in Fred’s column. Having Georgia and Alabama will be nice for him though.
He’ll pull off SC and come in second in Iowa and Florida.
Sounds like you’re poking fun at Thompson’s chances.
Considering your guy won’t place higher than 4th in any state that takes balls.
Do you think maybe they don’t watch enough Law and Order up there? Maybe they don’t watch enough TV to get corrupted by the media BS.
This thread is about New Hamshire and Iowa. Rasmussen is a national poll.
Unfortunately, I don't think that's true. Most of the viewers have seen plenty of him on television, and his lack of real traction so far surprises me.
He has to campaign on the public persona he already has (and in recent years, that persona seems carefully crafted for just this run).
Didn’t the RNC just strip NH and/or SC of half their delegates for moving their primary up to such a ridiculously early date?
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