Those straw polls are rigged because Ron Paul and Mitt Romney bus in their groupies, pay their lodging and pay their admission.
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I believe it. Both are underhanded skunks.
Bingo.
Those straw polls are rigged because Ron Paul and Mitt Romney bus in their groupies, pay their lodging and pay their admission.
I keep wondering why some of the others with their PACs don’t tap into this younger crowd and get them onboard like Paul does. They can be hard workers and don’t need a lot of extras.
Yes, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have effective political organizations.
These CPAC events are not telephone polls. The candidates with the most effective political organizations win these events.
Going in, everyone knows this is a test of the campaign organizations. And Ron Paul won again.
When Romney used to win these things (Romney won in 2007, 2008, 2009) Romney would be praised for his organization (not by conservatives but by MSM), but apparently now, when there’s a candidate who really does want much less government (which, btw, even Fox does not want), any sort of campaigning to try to do well is treated as cheating of a sort.
I don’t know if Mitt Romney invented this busing in of people thing, but he was really good at it, and got a lot of press for it, back in 2007-9.
But now, Ron Paul is better at it.
Ron Paul was running in 2007. He didn’t win. Romney did.
Ron Paul was running in 2008. He didn’t win. Romney did.
But now, 2010, 2011, Ron Paul is winning and Romney - who plays these straw polls to win - loses 2 years in a row to Ron Paul, after winning 3 straight years.
And everyone else is a distant 3rd. It’s true that none of the other competitors is really trying, just Paul and Romney, but 2 years in a row Paul beats Romney - after Romney wins for 3 straight years.
Is Romney just getting worse at this, or is Romney less popular than 4 years ago and Ron Paul substantially more popular or effective as a campaign organizer.
Back in 2007-8, the Ron Paul campaign was not a well oiled machine. Ron Paul did not know back then how to harness the youthful passion of his supporters. Since then, the youthful, enthusiastic supporters who were extremely inexperiened are now trained.
I would expect a professional ground game in NH, and not “stay away from the official campaign in NH, come harass pedestrians, and maybe even argue with Hillary’s SS detail in Dover. Don’t forget the snowballs for the pundits you don’t like.”
People are missing the story here. Ron Paul is winning these things. The tea party does sound a lot like Ron Paul. And his people are waiting for the first huge official money bomb, which very possibly would put $10 million in the bank for Ron Paul in a day.
I know that the media hates Ron Paul the most, and they really wanted to say that Mitt Romney won today, but he didn’t. The guy who wants much much less government won.