Ron Paul got $7,300,000 worth of free Internet advertising

[G-khan]

Ron Paul got $7,300,000 worth of free Internet advertising

Published by admin on June 12th, 2007 | Tagged republican party, election 2008, ron paul

Technorati has about 73,000 blog posts listed for Ron Paul. It would be fair to say that the average traffic to each of these blog posts is 1000 visits. This may range from 0 for small blogs, to millions for large ones.


That is 73,000,000 visits. If we consider the possibility of him using Adwords or a similar service and paying a $0.10 cost per click, he would have had to pay $7.3 million to get this kind of traffic.


Also Ron Paul has the most enthusiastic supporters of any candidate in decades. Paul has volunteers which do all the tough campaign work that people like Hillary Clinton pay for.


The value of this hardcore libertarian base is priceless. There are several million people who would vote libertarian if they did not vote for the “lesser evil”. In 1980 the Libertarian party got close to 1 million votes. This is the most active base of any party bar none. The cost for one to replicate this would be 100’s of millions of dollars.


http://www.freecentury.com/2007/06/12/ron-paul-got-7300000-worth-of-free-internet-advertising/

 

[rockfree33]

To me that's as good as campaign money. So if he really did raise $5 million so far, add that $7.3 million in there and Ron Paul raised a total of $12.3 million. Not bad for a "second-tier" candidate

 

[LibertyOrDie]

To me that's as good as campaign money. So if he really did raise $5 million so far, add that $7.3 million in there and Ron Paul raised a total of $12.3 million. Not bad for a "second-tier" candidate

That is exactly how we should be treating it. We should be shoving this kind of information right back down the media pipeline. If they want to use the internet as a medium for plugging their shows and information then we should expect from them the acceptance of it's worth!

This can be easily done, with a little bit of research into what all the candidates have invested from their campaigns into the internet for advertisement compared to what they have gotten out. I sure, not one of them will come close to triple the success that Ron Paul has generated!

 

[theknightshift]

To me that's as good as campaign money.

And the neat thing about it is, honest-to-goodness passion for a candidate can't be touched by McCain-Feingold