Jan 20th, 2008
Paul Places 2nd in Nevada Caucus
The Nevada Caucus was said to have poor turnout, with 44,315 people showing up to vote, or about 5% of the population. While Romney won big, Paul’s second place showing is also a victory.
With 1,789 of 1,789 precincts reporting:
Mitt Romney 51 % 22,646
Ron Paul 14 % 6,084
McCain 13 % 5,650
Huckabee 8 % 3,616
Thompson 8 % 3,519
Giuliani 4 % 1910
Hunter 2 % 890
Paul received 14 percent of the vote and second place with over 6,000 votes, far behind Mitt Romney’s 51 percent and 22,646 votes. See the caucus results here.
In an AP press release about the feat, Paul is said to have taken “several swipes at former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who got fewer votes than Paul in Nevada and was trailing Paul in returns being tabulated Saturday night in South Carolina.”It continues by saying that Paul told the audience about a confrontation with Giuliani during this month’s debate in South Carolina. He said Giuliani “cut me down.”
“Tonight, if this is the final tally on that confrontation, we got three times as much vote as the mayor got,” he said, referring to Nevada amidst the cheering supporters. He continued, “Millions of people have heard this message and this is why coming in second is very great, it sends a great message.”
Paul collected four delegates from the Nevada caucus to Giuliani’s one.
The demographics of the vote in Nevada demonstrate that the age breakdown was fairly skewed towards older - age 60+ voters. Also take into account that ironically, Nevada has a large Mormon population. Romney receiving 50% of the vote there is no surprise given these factors. But Paul received about 49% of the independent voters in Nevada and won among the younger voters.
The Nevada triumph should serve as a springboard into Super Tuesday for Paul. His grassroots support has another massive fund raising day on Monday. Aside from Romney, and Paul, all of the other GOP campaigns are running on fumes, but the Paul campaign had $8 million bank at the end of the 4th quarter. With another infusion of cash with the MLK moneybomb, he is positioned to outlast everyone else and challenge the media anointed front-runners McCain and Romney.
The Paul campaign shows no sign up letting up and neither do his supporters. The Meetup group members surpassed 100,000 people and have increased at a rate of over 500 members a day for Dr. Paul:
Meetup Members Past 7 days: http://www.ronpaulgraphs….
Meetup Members overall: http://www.ronpaulgraphs….
And this success and growth despite the omissions and distortions by the likes of the New York Times, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, ETC.
Despite Ron Paul leading Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson in almost every state so far and his second place showing in Nevada, the New York times thinks this isn’t worthy of their ink to print. Ron Paul also out performed Senator Edwards today 3 to 1 in percentage points, but they don’t even print his name.
In the below screen capture of the inappropriately named ‘You Decide 2008′, the 4th highest ranking candidate is not listed amongst the candidates on the “official results” page:
Fox News continues to disregard the fact that Ron Paul is one of the GOP presidential candidates.
It’s not a surprise that the MSM ignores or marginalizes Paul. They stand to lose all they’ve been building with the consolidation of the MSM that has been happening for over 50 years. Now most major news stations, magazines, newspapers and other media outlets are owned by SIX mega-corporations. This is no accident or coincidence and the current monetary system and corporate welfare, which Paul opposes, lends to it’s control grid and growth. Corporate ownership may be a secret but the role of the big banks, and their monopoly over the issuance of credit which gives them a tremendous advantage in the marketplace (and to buy controlling shares in these corporations) is no longer a secret. Edward Griffin’s ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island, a book Paul has gave a positive review of, discusses these ’secrets’ in depth. Bank issued credit and the monopoly of banks and corporate control are the reality we live with today and Ron Paul stands opposed to this in his striving to return to constitutional principles, which is why the controlling interests (not necessarily individual journalists) are opposed to him overtly and covertly.
The strong showing in Nevada begs the question: Are these the numbers of a fringe candidate? In the swing state of Nevada, these numbers could help the Paul campaign with perceived viability and earn him broad appeal.
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