Ron Paul Gives Both Sides Something to Write About
Texas Strawpoll Results are Latest Proof
Same Results, Two Different ViewsÂ
The Latest Ron Paul story
Ron Paul’s results in the Texas straw poll only prove one thing. Whether you adore or loathe him, Ron Paul is the cure for blog writer’s block. Commentators on both sides of the Ron Paul question jump into the saddle to adorn every story with their own spin.
For example: The Hill’s David Hill reports that there’s trouble back home for Ron Paul.
While Texan Ron Paul’s stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September, Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions.
The congressman corralled just 17 percent of the votes cast, trailing California’s Duncan Hunter with 41 percent.
Hill’s reaction is that these numbers are too high. That Texans are more concerned with making a statement or following a leader than they are about whether Paul can actually win the election.
This outcome says Texas Republicans aren’t terribly concerned about viability. Otherwise, one of the national front-runners like Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney would have beaten these long-shots. But if they were willing to “waste†their votes on Hunter, why didn’t most back a fellow Texan? The truth is that Ron Paul, the angry prophet, has little honor in his own land. He’s about to lose his congressional seat.
This interesting article details the history of Ron Paul’s elections in both Texas and nationally.
It also touches on the anxiety felt at the national level by some Republican leaders about Paul.
David Freddoso at the NRO’s The Corner disagrees with Hill’s assessment. In Ron Paul’s Trouble at Home? his rebuttal consists of three points, including this observation about the straw poll’s results.
Hill’s other piece of evidence is a September straw poll in Dallas (six hours from Paul’s district), which Duncan Hunter won with 41 percent. None of the major candidates participated in the poll, partly because it was limited to current and former party convention delegates and alternates.
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Ron Paul: Cure For Writers’ BlockÂ
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Ron Paul: Cure For Writers’ Block
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There’s trouble back home for Ron Paul
Mondoreb blogs at Death By 1000 Papercuts. Interested readers can e-mail him at
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11 users commented in " Ron Paul: The Cure For Writer’s Block "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhat about the other scores of straw polls where Paul won? It is spamming when he wins and reality when he looses?
As for me, I choose spamming the election. Because that would be both spam and real victory, and this time, they wont be able to cancel the results because they came out wrong.
As the author points out, the big story in the TX straw poll was it was limited to prior delegates — ie, not exactly Dr. Paul’s biggest supporters. Were his “spammers” allowed to vote in the poll, he undoubtedly would’ve won it.
I read Hill’s article, and it has little to back it up. It references a straw poll of recent Republican delegates (your typical Bush supporter) and then references a primary challenger Peden and several other unknown polls.
Dr. Paul may very well be in trouble, but Hill’s article doesn’t make a convincing argument that it indeed is. Rather it drives across Hill’s own anxiety with Dr. Paul more solidly than his argument.
This the same straw poll in which Ron Paul delegates were turned away. It was all captured and uploaded to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnWT4gCJSE
You can’t make this stuff up.
Uh, dude, that straw poll was held in September. Why report on it now?
RP08!
“Texas Strawpoll Results are Latest Proof”
You call this “latest”? September?
Sorry, we internet PaulBots expect something a little more up to the minute. Or day or week or month.
I still say I’ll put my guy Ron Paul toe-to-toe on the issues with anyone else’s candidate, and in front of the American people he’ll win. All we want is a fair hearing and a fair fight. The Ron Paul train is rolling.
Wasn’t that Texas straw poll held months ago? *Yawn*
Who has won more straw polls than any other Rep candidate? See for yourself:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/straw-poll-results/
Ron Paul’s Head-to-Head Records (Win-Lose-Tie):
Ron Paul v. Rudy Giuliani 34-7-0
Ron Paul v. Mitt Romney 26-15-0
Ron Paul v. Fred Thompson 25-15-0
Ron Paul v. John McCain 35-5-0
Ron Paul v. Mike Huckabee 33-6-1
Ron Paul v. Tom Tancredo 38-1-0
Ron Paul v. Duncan Hunter 37-2-0
Naw dude, you still have writer’s block…keep tryin’
RonPaulRocks!!!
Those denying Ron Paul’s strength seem to be in for a big surprise. I put him in third place among Republican contenders…
http://truthalert.net/Republican%20Presidential%20Candidate%20Rankings.htm
And no one ever wants to mention that Ron Paul supporters who paid $75 a head to get in to vote at the Straw Poll were turned away even if they were delegates. The ones who got turned away were the ones who had RP T-shirts, RP buttons, or any signs of being a supporter of Ron Paul. The 17% that did get in to vote for him is still significant in spite of this.
Look at the turn out numbers themselves, and you can see that a large number of people who paid to vote, the expected number of people, was substantially lower than the number of people who showed up. I doubt all these people had emergencies that were greater than making their 75 bucks worthwhile.
I have seen video footage of the event as well.
As a Ron Paul supporter from Texas, I know, fullheartedly, that the people who believe Ron Paul isn’t doing well here in this state are wrong. I am not saying that he will win here but he certainly isn’t hated at all, infact, Austin TX and Houston TX both search Ron Paul more than any other candidates with an extreme gap between Ron Paul is the most popular and whoever else the second most popular is.
You guys fear the Revolution because you feel it coming 🙂 like a wave!!
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