Thread: Ron Paul Moves Into the Top Tier, Suggesting All His Support

Ron Paul Moves Into the Top Tier, Suggesting All His Support is Real

Gambling911.com Special Contributor Jennifer Reynolds has a lot to say about 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul and the continued "disrespect" he is receiving in the media, a "disrespect" not shown by online oddsmakers who give Ron Paul a respectable 15 to 1 odds of winning the 2008 US Presidential Race.

Ron Paul continues to be among the most sought after subjects on the Gambling911.com website. His political web-based strategy has caught the attention of other politicians across the US from Hillary Clinton - who incorporated a brilliant online video taken from the Sopranos finale - right down to local political races including those in Gambling911.com's own stomping grounds of Miami Beach where preservationist mayoral candidate Matti Bower is planning a major YouTube-focused campaign while Commissioner Michael Gongora (running for re-election) already is.

"Paul at his age is the last person you would think to be Internet savvy," says Gambling911.com's political analyst, Carrie Stroup. "For all we know, he may not even be able to log onto a computer. But he's got great people behind him that are pushing the online initiative and it is working in a major way. The appeal is to a younger, more Internet experienced audience whereas the mainstream media tends to gather opinions from a much more mature segment of society who may not be quite as familiar with the Internet."

And this could explain the sometimes blatant disregard of Paul in the mainstream media as Ms. Reynolds discusses below.

In the second quarter, Ron Paul is reporting that he has 2.4 million cash on hand. That is more money than "front-runner" John McCain. Now, the mainstream media has never really offered up their methodology for deciding who gets to be called "top tier" but if Ron Paul now has more cash on hand than John McCain (a former top tier candidate) more Meetup groups than all the other candidates, is the number one searched term on Technorati, and number one in YouTube subscriptions, then he must have moved into the top tier by now.



For months now, most mainstream media reports of Ron Paul and his massive Internet popularity have claimed that his supporters are really spammers – just a few nuts pushing for Ron Paul with the computer savvy to “lookâ€

Man, they just really insist on not talking about Tom Tancredo or Duncan Hunter. We have got to do more in getting them in the spotlight!

I haven't been seeing much about Ron Paul in the media either....

Right now Ron is on McIntyre in the Morning radio show, KABC 790 am.

The Mainstream Media (MSM) is doing their best to ignore Paul, Tancredo, and Hunter because they believe supporters of these candidates are so far out in right field that no one will pay any attention. I think they are severely underestimating the disgust of the American people over the way government is run. Well, just as with the amnesty bill in the Senate, we have to GET their attention, and I think that's what Ron Paul's supporters are trying to do. Even if they HAVE been spamming the polls, they've gotten attention for Ron Paul that he would NOT have received otherwise!

If had not said what he did in that debate, I think he would be better off now. Not that what he said was not true or anything, it just did not play well on the replays.. Speaking for myself, I did not know who he was until that debate. But I joined this site and learned about the man and found we had many of the same opinions. I guess what I am saying is, if I had not came here and learned more about him I would have written him off and a bit nutty.

Originally Posted by imblest

The Mainstream Media (MSM) is doing their best to ignore Paul, Tancredo, and Hunter because they believe supporters of these candidates are so far out in right field that no one will pay any attention. I think they are severely underestimating the disgust of the American people over the way government is run. Well, just as with the amnesty bill in the Senate, we have to GET their attention, and I think that's what Ron Paul's supporters are trying to do. Even if they HAVE been spamming the polls, they've gotten attention for Ron Paul that he would NOT have received otherwise!

Very true MSM is trying their best to bury these candidates. It is once again left up to us to make the difference and WE CAN DO IT, just like we did on the amnesty bill. WE need to be united and SPEAK OUT so that they cannot ignore us. MSM and the coporate elites are playing a game and we do not have to let them win!!!! WE are not their fools nor are we their pawns!!!

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Googlers applaud GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul

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By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News
Article Launched: 07/14/2007 01:36:50 AM PDT

Ron Paul, the Texas GOP congressman and long-shot candidate for president, credits a rabid Internet following with spreading his staunch libertarian and anti-war message into the mainstream media.

So you might think the unlikely Web phenom, who got an enthusiastic reception when he spoke Friday to about 250 Google employees, plus 100 sent to an overflow room, would be the technology industry's best friend.

Not so.

Paul did call the Internet "rather miraculous," as he pitched his free-market, small-government mantra to the employees, many of whom came in shorts and even one in bare feet.

"Thank goodness there's the Internet or whatever it is," he said, referring to a fanatic Web-based network of supporters who are intent on boosting his campaign.

But he did not sanitize his talk for his Net-centric audience.

He said he does not support network neutrality, the concept that telecommunications companies should be restricted from controlling broadband access to the detriment of Web companies like Google, nor does he support tech-friendly immigration reforms in Congress recently. And he doesn't believe in federal student government loans, which a huge majority of the audience, by a show of hands, had used to make it through college.

In fact, the blunt-talking, sometimes humorous Paul told the audience at Google, where former Vice President Al Gore serves as senior adviser, that he thinks fears of global warming are "overblown."
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And then he raised the question of why American business should be subject to more regulation if so much pollution is coming from China.

"I don't agree with him on everything, especially immigration," said Google employee Vijay Boyapati, an Indian immigrant who gained citizenship last year. But Boyapati, wearing a Ron Paul T-shirt, finds Paul so "refreshing" that he flew from Google's Seattle office just to hear him in person.

Paul, who turns 72 next month, has become a darling of the blogosphere. Friday, as measured by Technorati, "Ron Paul" was the third-most-searched phrase appearing on blogs, ahead of "iPhone" and "Harry Potter." Through Internet-based fundraising, he has managed to raise more than $3 million since the beginning of the year, most of it in the most recent quarter, and he had more money in the bank at the end of the June than Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

The 10-term congressman, who represents the Houston-area, ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1988, though he has served in Congress as a Republican. His fan base only became more energized after an interview last weekend on ABC when George Stephanopolous, host of "This Week," told Paul he would bet "every cent" that Paul would not become president.

At Google, Paul reiterated his controversial stance that ongoing American military presence in the Middle East over decades is responsible for the chaos in Iraq.

"We are the motivation for the civil war over there," he said. "The American empire is going to fail. It's in the process of failing."

An adamant opponent of gun control, Paul said, "I think the Second Amendment might have prevented 9/11." If the hijackers knew the passengers or crew might be armed, they may have never planned such an attack, he said. And while he values the work of immigrants coming to the United States, he thinks illegal immigrants should not be given a special pass to citizenship.

Speaking of illegal immigration, he said, "I don't think you can solve that problem as long as you have a welfare state."

"We have touched a nerve with a lot of young people," Paul told the audience.

When Google executive Elliot Schrage, who interviewed Paul on Friday, asked which Googlers had taken out a student loan to go to college, most raised their hand.

Paul then responded, "Why should people who don't go to college support your education?"

And then he flashed his candidate side: Could he win their vote back with his pledge to free them from a Social Security system from which he says they will never benefit?

Paul is scheduled to appear today at 10 a.m. at a public rally in Mountain View's Charleston Park.



Contact Mary Anne Ostrom at mostrom@mercurynews.com or (40 920-5574.