Vexcalibur wrote:
There are not a few dozen students but it is very few people nonetheless. The group that wants Hillary is bigger , that doesn't mean they aren't a bunch of whacks. You know what the sad thing is? Ron Paul will not go independent, he will actually try to make those people support McCain, guess they will feel like hypocrites after that.
As pointed out already, Ron Paul supporters don't like McCain one bit! Although I don't agree with writing in Ron Paul's name, considering (from what I've heard) he isn't even going to register as a write-in Candidate so those votes won't even be counted! But among Ron Paul supporters, there seems to be about 85% of them split 5:4 between the two candidates Bob Barr (Libertarian) and Chuck Baldwin (Constitutionalist), another 10% still going to write in Ron Paul anyway, and about 5% who will either vote for McCain to keep Obama out, or voting for Obama to keep McCain out.
Personally I'm going with Chuck Baldwin. Oh and I pretty much made those numbers up from what I've seen myself, not sure how accurate they could be.
Noticed lately that Ron Paul gets a heck of a lot more news coverage now than he did as a presidential candidate. The media pretty much totally ignored him before, but now that he's being recognized as being pretty correct about the economy, all the major news networks have interviewed him on the economy, introducing him as "Congressmen and Former Presidential Candidate". But while he was a candidate, little to no coverage. Why? The main argument I'd been told was that the media should only cover those that are popular... of course, popularity has a heck of a lot to do with how much media coverage the candidate receives, so it's a circular loop that automatically boosted the popularities of a select few early in the primaries (McCain, Guliani, Hillary and Obama were the big 4).These are names of people were already famous before the party debates even began (then later less familiar ones like Huckabee and Romney were thrown around, but that was after all the rest dropped out, but Paul was still ignored the best they could). Frankly, I consider media coverage of the front runners to be a hugely unfair advantage over everyone else, since the name recognition and discussion of the ideas of those select few amount to millions of dollars worth of campaign contributions. Sometimes the media story might revolve around a campaign commercial itself, if sufficiently controversial.
20 Jul 2008, 4:45 pm
