>> Paul is technically a front-runner and deserves just as much time as Fred and Rudy does.
Huh? Technically a frontrunner? Under what technical definition?
Here is a list of the most recent polling data on Ron Paul (for October 12th-14th).
- CNN has Paul 7th with 2% ... margin of error of 5%. (beating Tancredo and Brownback)
- Gallup has Paul 6th with 5% (beating Hunter, Tancredo and Brownback) ... margin of error of 5%.
- Reuters has Paul at 6th with 3% ... MOA 5%. (beating Hunter, Tancredo, Brownback).
- American Reasearch Group has Paul 7th with 2% (beating Tancredo and Brownback)
- FoxNews has Paul 7th with 2% ... moa 5% (beating Hunter and Tancredo ... LOSING to Brownback).
- NBC has Paul 6th with 2%.
- ABCNews has Paul 7th with 3%.
In each of these cases, Paul is 6th or 7th in a field of 9 or 10 candidates (depending on whether Keyes or Gingrich is included). Mike Huckabee is polling at double or triple the support of Ron Paul. Thompson and Giuliani, the true frontrunners, are polling at 5 to 10 TIMES the support of Ron Paul.
He’s not polling above the margin of error in ANY poll ... and he’s not close to any of the true frontrunners. Ron Paul’s not even polling in the top 2/3 of Republican candidates. He is simply not a frontrunner under any reasonable definition of the term.
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(A) MSM polls purposefully excludes Paul's name from most polling questionnaires
(B) They are polling the same registered Republicans who voted in the 2004 elections...
(C) Many of Paul's supporters are newcomers in politics or they're independents, so they're not polled.
(D) MSM still uses landline phones for polling - Most of Paul's supporters have cellphones. Read what the Centers for Disease Control had to say about polls, they're frustrated because everyone has cell phones and they have a hard time gathering polling data for their statistics because of it.
(E) Who determines what makes a poll "scientific" anyway? So internet & text-message polls are not objective but the ones that call people during dinner with loaded questions are? Do you know that on Internet polls you can only vote once per ISP address, and that Paul has always been ahead in these polls?