Actually, I bet McCain hopes that he loses to Ron Paul.
Because the story is Mitt Romney winning. And as we all know, the mainstream media will ignore a contest where Ron Paul does well. So suddenly the media will stop talking about Romney winning because they'd have to talk about Ron Paul in...
Reading this I am starting to wonder if the exit polls are a trick.
http://www.conservativepulse.com/home/2008/01/19/cnn-exit-polls-show-romney-paul-in-nevada/
Say that Paul was supposed to get 20% but he's "only" getting 12% and so suddenly he's underperformed when none of the media or polls...
A "conservative" version of Digg has cropped up and it looks like they get some decent traffic, if not really huge. They are all Republican probably.
Most of the campaign stories are about John McCain (haha) and Fred Thompson, with a few (many negative) stories about Ron Paul...
If the level of activity at these forum sites is any indication of support, it looks like Ron Paul has the real grassroots supporters.
http://www.votemittromney.us/forum/default.asp - 800 posts :p
http://mccaintalk.com/index.php - 100 posts :p
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Ron Paul Forums Statistics...
This site just put up an online poll, with only a few votes so far...
http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/11/06/question-of-the-week-4/
They've given positive coverage to Ron Paul in the past...
http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/25/the-source-of-those-ron-paul-revolution-signs/
and...
Exactly. Colbert would have embarrassed the hell out of them and probably even won a couple of delegates to the Dem convention.
Then of course, the joke probably would have been to send a few young people as those delegates to vote for Stalin or Vladimir Putin or something crazy.