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By the time of Super Tuesday ...
We were half a million strongby George Dance
(Libertarian)
This article isn't exactly on topic for the column, but I needed to write something light and cheerful tonight.
I've been getting tired of reading on-line, ever since Super Tuesday, about Ron Paul's "losses" and "disappointing" vote totals. So I decided today to go onto CNN's Election Center 2008 and calculate how many votes Ron Paul had already received in the primaries and caucuses so far.
The total I got wasn't definitive. For one thing, some of the states did not show 100% reported. For another, I couldn't include WV and WY (where CNN officially gives Paul 0 votes each). Adding up what I could though, I got a total of sorts:
As of Feb. 5, 572,884 people had voted for Ron Paul in the GOP primaries and caucuses.
To put that figure in perspective: that's almost 150,000 more votes than Paul received in total in his 1988 Presidential campaign.
Imagine that: despite all the attempts to keep Americans from hearing Ron Paul's message, over half a million Americans embraced it this month. I'd call that a very good start to the campaign.
By the time of Super Tuesday ...
We were half a million strongby George Dance
(Libertarian)
This article isn't exactly on topic for the column, but I needed to write something light and cheerful tonight.
I've been getting tired of reading on-line, ever since Super Tuesday, about Ron Paul's "losses" and "disappointing" vote totals. So I decided today to go onto CNN's Election Center 2008 and calculate how many votes Ron Paul had already received in the primaries and caucuses so far.
The total I got wasn't definitive. For one thing, some of the states did not show 100% reported. For another, I couldn't include WV and WY (where CNN officially gives Paul 0 votes each). Adding up what I could though, I got a total of sorts:
As of Feb. 5, 572,884 people had voted for Ron Paul in the GOP primaries and caucuses.
To put that figure in perspective: that's almost 150,000 more votes than Paul received in total in his 1988 Presidential campaign.
Imagine that: despite all the attempts to keep Americans from hearing Ron Paul's message, over half a million Americans embraced it this month. I'd call that a very good start to the campaign.
