~16,000 votes -> good job!

[GeneralFreeman]

It may be a lower percentage than we were hoping for, but it looks like about 16,000 people in SC cast their vote for Dr Paul today. With the media coverage we (hopefully) get with the Nevada caucus and the money bomb, these 16,000 will have plenty of fuel to keep spreading the r3volution! The GOP nomination isn't everything.

As long as we keep doing what we're doing, Dr Paul will have a LOT of support by November. Good job grassroots.

 

[freedom-maniac]

Only 16,000 people in that God-forsaken state believe in freedom? Pathetic. No wonder SC liked slavery so mucn.

 

[Goldwater Conservative]

This puts us comfortably over 100,000 votes total, doesn't it?

 

[raheelp]

Only 16,000 people in that God-forsaken state believe in freedom? Pathetic. No wonder SC liked slavery so mucn.

Keep these crap posts out of this forum please.

 

[freedom-maniac]

This puts us comfortably over 100,000 votes total, doesn't it?

Interesting, considering that there are only supposed to be 100,000 grassroots campaigners nationwide.

 

[snaFU]

The funny thing is they should be more receptive to Pauls message since they tried to secede from the union...wait their ancestors did

 

[Goldwater Conservative]

Interesting, considering that there are only supposed to be 100,000 grassroots campaigners nationwide.

We're on route to finish with 1-2 million votes nationwide. About the same number of people we have in the armed forces, incidentally.

 

[kirkblitz]

enough to cost romney the election

 

[GeneralFreeman]

The funny thing is they should be more receptive to Pauls message since they tried to secede from the union...wait their ancestors did

Yeah, I would think that States' Rights would potentially attract a lot of people in the rural south (the kind of people who fly confederate flags from the back of their pickup trucks). I guess they just don't know about RP.

 

[wgadget]

Either that or they went with Thompson.

 

[freedom-maniac]

We're on route to finish with 1-2 million votes nationwide. About the same number of people we have in the armed forces, incidentally.

Yeah, so if McCain wins, he just draft us all to go into Iran.

 

[Oyate]

We're on route to finish with 1-2 million votes nationwide. About the same number of people we have in the armed forces, incidentally.

That's been the most fascinating thing about the campaign to me. Figuring out how many of us there are. The campaign has brought together more Constitutionalists, libertarians, disenfranchised conservatives and freedom lovers than anything else has before.

Looking over at the left wing side, the combined votes for Kucinich and Gravel have been utterly pathetic. Just plain embarrassing. The left has no business talking antiwar. Their voting blocks just aren't interested or they are fooled by "Hip Obama" and "caring, compassionate Hillary" who won't deviate one iota from the Bush regime war plan.

We might increasingly get hurt on the "electability issue" and I think a lot of fair weather activists will defect but my I'm hoping we'll come out closer to 3M voters nationally.

If we can transition into being a general movement on the other side of the elections we'll have accomplished our larger strategic objective.

 

[atthegates]

Only 16,000 people in that God-forsaken state believe in freedom? Pathetic. No wonder SC liked slavery so mucn.

LMFAO

 

[Prez22]

The funny thing is they should be more receptive to Pauls message since they tried to secede from the union...wait their ancestors did

Their ancestors should have freed the slaves and then fired on Fort Sumter.

 

[pinkmandy]

That's been the most fascinating thing about the campaign to me. Figuring out how many of us there are. The campaign has brought together more Constitutionalists, libertarians, disenfranchised conservatives and freedom lovers than anything else has before.

Ditto that. And before RP we were all just living our pissed off disgruntled lives or living in ignorance. Thanks to RP and the message he brought, we have all stumbled into each other...like minds coming together in a massive way. The establishment is flipping scared guys. Our numbers will only grow and this movement doesn't just end in Nov 2008. We go on and multiply...you can't go back to "that" life knowing freedom is around the corner. We ARE winning.

 

[VoteForRonPaul]

Only 16,000 people in that God-forsaken state believe in freedom? Pathetic. No wonder SC liked slavery so mucn.

First I want to thank the people who really went out and voted, but this number is a real shame on SC, for all the efforts that has been done here and with all the money that has been spent by the supporters and the campaign, it is real a shame and dark spot in the history of SC
Really guys the efforts that has been done here should put us at least third.
I really cannot believe those dumb people who voted for Romney, over 60,000 voted for him and he did nothing here, nothing. God man, supporters work their butts off and others reap the fruits, what kind of logic is that?

Now what makes me really mad is that I do not trust either the machines nor the voters in SC, but I still want to know whose fault was this???

 

[dfalken]

Ditto that. And before RP we were all just living our pissed off disgruntled lives or living in ignorance. Thanks to RP and the message he brought, we have all stumbled into each other...like minds coming together in a massive way. The establishment is flipping scared guys. Our numbers will only grow and this movement doesn't just end in Nov 2008. We go on and multiply...you can't go back to "that" life knowing freedom is around the corner. We ARE winning.

Best post I've read on the boards. We were discussing that tonight with my wife, and saying how regardless of the outcome of the election, we have won...we all know their is a legitimate movement we belong to and we will all continue to spread it. We are already talking about "Ron Paul Republicans" Ron Paul is bringing about huge change whether he does it from the President's pulpit or not. We have to continue our mission and take it as far as we can, we have only just begun.

I found Ron Paul in 1999 just after I left the sheep herd (I came across his economic writings and have kept coming across them since then), and I had been living my pissed off disgruntled life since then thinking I was alone in the wilderness. Fortunately there are a few financial "bear forums" that I belong to that did bring people like us together but in small numbers (pretty much 90% of the people on those boards are now Ron Paul supporters, and I have done my part to make that happen). It is great to know that those of living outside the matrix are actually numbering in the millions.

It is also great to know that a great percentage of the youth of America are part of this group outside the matrix, which gives me hope that we will be able to break through as the older people "move on". The baby boomers are a disgrace as a generation (with my pardons to any baby boomers here...personally I am a generation Xer) they are absolutely entitled, they haven't gone through any hardship in their lives and can't see the speeding train that is about to run them over. They all think they are going to retire in the next few years and walk happily into the sunset. Reality is about to hit them in the next few years (it has already started to hit but they are too stupid to realize it). The baby boomers as a generation will never retire, they will have to work all the way to the grave to be able to feed themselves. We are headed right now to a depression greater than the 30s. At the bottom of this depression, people will exit the matrix in droves and we will become the majority.

 

[Molly1]

We're on route to finish with 1-2 million votes nationwide. About the same number of people we have in the armed forces, incidentally.

How many votes do we need to be a viable third party candidate?

 

[raiha]

I guess they just don't know about Ron Paul

Alot of Southerners DO know about RP (maybe not so much the SC voters) Watch Alabamy!

Actually, after i got out of the 'recovery' position, i went for a walk and reflected that if you think about:
a. How appalling the media has been;
b. If you think of all the smears;
c. If you think of all the voters who don't want to vote for someone they think will lose...
d. If you think about the bad weather
e. If you think of what a hold the Defence Dept, I mean the M.I.C. has on SC....
weeeell to be honest...it's a miracle he trounced Rudy; its a miracle he was second in Nevada.

And here we all are still, not giving up...people will donate on Jan 21st, more than they would have had he not been second.

They'll come round!

 

[Goldwater Conservative]

How many votes do we need to be a viable third party candidate?

In 2004, 120 million votes were cast for president, so even if there's a 10% increase in turnout (unlikely considering that was 60% turnout, a modern day record) 1.3 million votes would be about 1%. Seems small, but enough to hold the balance of power.

Also, keep in mind that most primaries and caucuses are very low turnout, which means there are many more people willing to vote for Paul than actually have or will in the primary process. We have to convince many of them that he CAN win and we can still introduce him to the millions who've never heard of him, so I think Paul could easily get more than 1%. He'd probably have the strongest showing of any third party candidate since Ross Perot, at the very least.

Personally, I even think Paul could win as an independent if Bloomberg throws his hat into the ring, since he'd only need 25-30% of the vote in enough states to win a majority of the electoral votes. Targeted campaigning could see him winning with less than even a plurality and less than even 25% overall.

All that said, we have to press on for the GOP nomination, since that's where Paul is still fighting and might be the only place he fights.