From the Wall Street Journal
February 14, 2007, 3:49 pm
Ron Paul: Capturing the Spammer Vote?
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has been running something of a stealth campaign for the Republican nomination. His campaign Web site isn’t exactly ready for prime time and it’s not clear he’s doing much in the way of fund-raising. Anyone interested in contributing is encouraged to send a check to his exploratory committee, based in the Texas town of Clute, which may be best known as the home of the annual Great Texas Mosquito Festival.
But could there be some sort of ground-swell within the Republican ranks? This week, the weekly Pajamas Media presidential straw poll showed Paul in first place among Republican candidates, gathering 1,125 votes from readers. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani came in second place with 556 votes, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney attracted 358.
Perplexed by the results, the site looked into the voting and discovered massive fraud. Apparently, some 400 votes for Paul came from “someone behind a proxy at a large aircraft manufacturer,” 200 votes came from St. Louis and another 85 came from “someone at the University of South Carolina.” Efforts to expunge the ballot-box stuffers showed that Giuliani actually won the weekly poll, although it’s not entirely clear how many votes were tossed for fraud and the poll still shows Paul with a commanding lead. –Amy Schatz
Okay assuming that this is not some cover up by the WSJ and the votes counted are correct Paul still came in 2nd.
That is out of everybody running.
I am really not a tin foil hat type but:
Something really odd is happening here.
Why are so many people on this board suddenly advocating that we compromise with the repubs? I am new so is this a new thing?
