Ron Paul Wins ABC Republican Debate in a Landslide - Mainstream Media Ignores
In what seems to be a growing trend, presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul dominated the post-Republican-debate poll on ABC’s website. The debate was held on Sunday, August 5th at 8 AM Pacific Time on ABC’s major broadcast channel. Dr. Paul was not prominently placed on stage (the middle three were mainstream media favorites John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney), and was given significantly less face time than those candidates deemed worthy of more time by ABC. Each of Rep. Paul’s responses drew load cheers from the crowd. Overall his crowd response was the most vociferous of the debate.
ABC then hosted a post-debate poll on its home politics website - click here to view.
As of Monday, August 6th at about 8:45 AM Pacific Time, the poll results are as follows:
Who do you think won the Republican debate?
Ron Paul
30,947
Mitt Romney
3,913
Rudy Giuliani
2,942
Nobody won. I’m voting Democratic.
2,848
Nobody. I’m waiting for Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich to enter the race.
2,656
Mike Huckabee
2,432
Sam Brownback
1,008
Tom Tancredo
687
John McCain
658
Tommy Thompson
397
Duncan Hunter
392
Total Vote: 48,880
(For updated results follow this link.)
Clearly, Ron Paul utterly dominated this poll, receiving nearly two thirds of the vote. Also notice John McCain’s utter lack of support - it would be hard to TRY to get that few votes in an online poll. For this poll you can only vote once and, I’m guessing due to Dr. Paul’s popularity, it is actually pretty hard to find the poll on the ABC site. Also, it takes some effort to link directly to the poll. It is not easy to get the word out on the poll rapidly.
Unfortunately, this result has not been given mention anywhere and seems to be suppressed by ABC and other mainstream media outlets. Why? I do not know. Even ABC’s home page continuously shows headlines calling Romney the “leader in the polls”. The problem is, those are outdated phone polls which prove reality on a basis equivalent to the online poll at best. Many people no longer have landlines, if you are on the federal “do not call” list they cannot call your house, they do not call cell phones, and other issues associated with phone polling make the “official” polls worthless. Yet, they are touted while Paul’s dominant online performance is completely ignored.
I am not ready to call ABC completely shady just yet, but I am here to report the facts, and Dr. Paul dominating ABC News’ own post-debate poll IS NEWS, even if it is not being reported by mainstream media outlets.
Additionally, it should be mentioned that military donations to presidential candidates in the second quarter of 2007 showed Ron Paul with a healthy lead amongst Republican candidates (by far). Additionally, Dr. Paul leads in military donations from all candidates. Our troops fight for the ideals that Dr. Ron Paul upholds and it is something to take note of when you decide who to support.
Click here for Paul’s home website.
Update (August 7, 2007)
Please also watch the following video highlighting propaganda coming from the Cleveland, OH Fox News affiliate. This is not right people:
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I wrote something about how Ron Paul has a very loyal Internet following that allows him to win these types of polls, but he just doesn’t have the real public support to match.
The problem has been definitively stated by Dr. Paul himself: Americans can only take him if they are willing to change their idea of the role of government to match that of the founding fathers. Americans want a nanny state.
To me, a candidate storming to such a landslide victory in any reasonable measure is a legitimate story. Also, although an Internet poll is obviously not scientific, the utter dominance in that poll, where users can only vote once, is remarkable. This was not some off-the-path, esoteric site, it is ABC’s politics website immediately following a nationally televised debate (on ABC). To me, that is something that the mainstream media has a responsibility to report.
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