Post-CNN Debate Straw Poll was a Sham; Ron Paul Supporter Threatened

As reported by St. Petersburg Times last week, Mitt Romney used his personal finances to buy himself another straw poll win, this time after the Youtube/CNN debate that consisted of around 1,500 possible votes cast. Organizers allowed people to buy tickets in bulk, with each ticket costing $20. The majority of Romney votes came from people funded by him and campaign, and many voted upwards to 20 times, probably more. The establishment candidates can't come close to the enthusiasm and momentum of Ron Paul, so the only way for them to win is to buy it with cold hard money. They don't have our interests in mind, so any person conspiring with these candidates like this is equally responsible for their actions. Some Ron Paul supporters allegedly voted extra also, but one would have to wonder if it was because of what they knew. Romney managed to buy up 893 votes even though the crowd was clearly of a Ron Paul majority, and Paul came in second with 534.

Now an attendee has come out and disclosed more wrongdoing by the event organizers. It turns out that county chairman of the REC Tony DiMatteo, a Giuliani supporter, doesn't want to play by the rules, mimicking the utter disrespect for the law by candidates like Giuliani and Romney. Apparently DiMatteo didn't want the public finding out about the complete fraud of this event, so when a Ron Paul supporter decided to call him up to discuss it, he threatened her. His words: "It's too bad for you, and if you start any trouble you will be hurt." The leader of the local Ron Paul Meetup group later told her when called that the same thing had happened to him before the event. There is only one thing Giuliani supporters hate more than the constitution, and that's Ron Paul supporters. Coincidentally, Ron Paul's fourth quarter fundraising has already surpassed both Giuliani and Romney, and the big fundraising drive in 2 weeks has yet to even happen.

Mitt Romney bought himself a victory in the straw poll for Republicans at a rain-shortened barbecue in Vinoy Park.

Romney got 893 votes, besting second-place Ron Paul's 534 -- despite Paul's shuttling in supporters on a rented trolley and shuttle. The campaign had a plane sporting pro-Paul slogans and a boat touting him, too.

In fact, Paul supporters dominated the crowd, which reached an estimated 1,000 people. Tickets for votes cost $20 each.

So how did Romney do it?

"I voted 20 times," Derek Gyongzois, 38, of St. Petersburg exclaimed after casting ballots.

He said he works as a volunteer for the Romney campaign (and begged a reporter not to print his 20-vote tally). Did he buy the tickets?

"I don't have that kind of money," Gyongzois said.

He wasn't the only person voting more than once. Paul supporter Mike Wagner, 57, of St. Petersburg: "This thing is rigged."

Before rain cut short the event, Paul supporters were voting multiple times, too.

"This is the best election money can buy, anywhere," said Pinellas County GOP chairman Tony DiMatteo, a Rudy Giuliani supporter. Giuliani received 39 votes, followed by Mike Huckabee's 37 and Fred Thompson's 21. John McCain had 12; Duncan Hunter, 4, Alan Keyes, 2; and Tom Tancredo, 1.

Ron Paul Dominates Recent Zogby Poll

A Zogby poll sponsored by Alex Jones' media company Jones Productions was done last week, and there were two separate polls. All were blind bio polls, which means they don't name any names, and simply recite each candidate's resume and views. One was done featuring calls to likely voters that are staunchly Republican, which means many whom foolishly want us in Iran, and still believe in what they've heard the past 6 years from their government about 'terrorists' and the like. Giuliani won that poll of 389 folks with 34%, with Ron Paul coming in at 13%, and 9% who were undecided.

The other poll repeated the echoes of Paul's increasing momentum, and was a mixture of 1009 voters featuring everyone from Republicans, Democrats, and independents. Paul won that with 33%, and next was Giuliani with 19%; 20% were undecided. This is significant because the typical Zogby and other phone polls done targeting likely Republican voters usually involve older folks that are really set in their ways, and don't exactly look at the big scheme of things. They are also part of the age group that have gotten the country into this mess, but that is another story. The older phone poll crowd also historically fails to show up big at the primaries, and lack of enthusiasm in other Republican candidates works very well in Paul's favor. Zogby decided to highlight the smaller poll of older conservatives in their article and on their main website, but it can be noted as always that Ron Paul supporters are located all over the political spectrum, and the opposition knows that they can't count on anyone from the Paul side to not show up come primary time. Jones plans to sponsor at least one other set of blind bio polls in the near future.

***Zogby article***

***Jones Productions article w/ graph***

Glenn Beck Gets Fascist Neocon Horowitz on His Show to Lie About Ron Paul

Media shill Glenn Beck continued his attack on Ron Paul Monday (w/ video) as momentum builds, and this time he got David Horowitz on his show to help him out. Beck goes on to paint himself as a libertarian (funny) 'at heart,' and actually had the gall to call Ron Paul and his supporters domestic terrorists, which he advocates using the U.S. military in that hopeful endeavor of stopping us. With the increase of martial law apparatuses coming up in congress and defense preparations against an 'uprising' of level-headed citizens that simply want to take their country back from these criminals, he certainly knows that that is a possibility in the future.

The fact that he had David Horowitz on to help him out is just plain sick. They want to attack anyone that doesn't fold into submission when told these lies about 'islamo-fascists,' homegrown 'terrorists,' and aren't succumbed to what they see on mainstream television. They do that without caring to know why people are getting aware, and simply do what they can to downgrade and ridicule them as dangerous enemies. So who really are the 'domestic terrorists?' Is it the people like Beck and Horowitz that are working against our national interests by spreading lies to the media, or is it supporters of Ron Paul? The info war rages on.

Then comes a plummy Brit who I think is one of Bertie Wooster’s friends from the Drones Club. Then Beck gets to the real point: we are a right-wing peace movement. And being for peace means you want to kill people, whereas being for war means you want peace, if I may distill the agitprop.

Indeed, we are seeing Murray Rothbard’s dream come true; the Old Right, the pre-neocon, pre-Buckley right is back: for freedom and peace, sound money and keeping the fruits of your labor.

Next David Horowitz decries the “strain of isolationism and anarchism” in America, especially as represented by “libertarian websites like LewRockwell.com,” which are “totally in bed with the Islamofascists and have turned against this country.” By country, of course, he means the imperial presidency’s war-spying-torturing-taxing-planning apparatus.

Harwood Types Up Another Go at Ron Paul Hate

John Harwood is a... well he doesn't really deserve a description. All I'll say (if you've been living under a rock) is that he is a status quo writer for CNBC, he likes Pinocchio Giuliani, and has been at war with Ron Paul supporters since the GOP economy debate on CNBC. Now he is out to get Ron Paul more than ever. Likewise, the status quo warriors have all been out in full force this year with their anti-American rhetoric and ridiculing. Harwood has increasingly made himself think for months that Ron Paul has no chance of winning, and that his amount of supporters is somehow irrelevant. The only polls that matter to these people are the telephone polls (any poll that Paul doesn't win) that often don't even mention his name. This is becoming a common occurrence on NBC's networks, and it points out that supporters of freedom, the constitution, and the rule of law have much work to do in order to get out the word that there is a new force in politics, so that common not-knowing citizens can get educated on what's really happening in their country.

Harwood is hardly popular, and disagreed with often, but never was he called out on his disinformation in a way that raised his eyebrows like when the huge unmatched internet support for Ron Paul decided to vote (their right) on the online poll put on by CNBC's website after the GOP 'debate' on the economy that was covered by their network. They ended up dropping the poll and deleting its existence, infuriating Paul supporters because of foul play claims (only because a status quo candidate was not favored) that were not true. He retorted back several times to pissed off supporters, and made a name of himself in the Paul campaign. Now he is back with another little article bashing the Paul campaign after its big fundraising haul this week, stating the usual that Paul has no chance, and that supporters are simply wasting their time and money. He has provided a little hate poll asking whether or not people think Ron Paul has a chance, but most likely added it in for more ridicule in the future. These kind of hate pieces against liberty will only increase as Paul gets closer to moving past his original goal of $12 million for this quarter. They are scared, and they have every reason to be.

Our new NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll provides one more occasion for supporters of Ron Paul to face the music. Yes, he raised an impressive $5-million in the third quarter, matching John McCain. Yes, he recently hauled in an eye-popping $4-million in 24 hours using the Internet. And heaven knows his supporters have demonstrated the ability to win post-debate online polls (see below), and to fill my e-mail inbox.

But look at the national numbers, Team Paul: he gets 4% in the Republican primary, far behind leaders Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney.

Among Republicans just 11% rate him favorably--fewer than the 12% of Republicans who rate Hillary Clinton favorably! Nineteen percent rate him unfavorably, putting the libertarian-minded Texas Congressman in negative territory.

With numbers like that, Paul cannot win ANY contest on the Republican primary calendar, much less the presidency.

Could that change in a big way? Possibly, but anyone who bets on it would be foolish.

CNN Suprises by Calling their Fellow Media Colleagues Out on Ignoring Ron Paul

CNN has been really the only mainstream television network picking up Ron Paul's $4.2+ million haul with any enthusiasm and lack of disgusting bias. MSNBC has talked about it some, but it was mostly on their early morning shows, and they consistently brought on anchors and guests that put him down. No matter the underlying reasons, CNN actually called out their fellow media on the lack of Ron Paul coverage Tuesday, and even offered some pretty shocking (but not really) proof. They pointed out that a tracking company has tallied that Ron Paul has gotten only 4695 references since August 2006, compared to that of John McCain, who has a ridiculous 95,005. The status quo is surely having a tougher time this year shutting reason up. Ridiculing their critics doesn't work anymore.

***CNN Video***

Ron Paul Supporters Raise Over $4.2 Million

One could have projected this type of turnout after a couple of slow weeks for donations to the Ron Paul campaign, but it is still a rather big shock for the majority of supporters. There was such an overload in credit card transactions that donations were still literally backlogged shortly after midnight last night. The majority of press has been considerably fair with a few good surprises, but there are still plenty out there that don't like the idea of liberty or government accountability. They might find little ways to ridicule this accomplishment no matter what, but there are many more events like this already in place, and if four million isn't enough, maybe raising more than $12 million for the quarter will be.

***November 5th Totals***

One of the Finest Examples of Disgusting Hit Pieces Against Truth and Ron Paul

The National Ledger is an absolute joke of a news publication basically based on purposefully wrong mainstream media agendas and useless pop culture tabloid blabber. So it's not so much of a surprise that they would release such a hateful article on such a huge day for the Ron Paul campaign, and the fact that the editors allowed this to be published shows that they don't exactly have a problem with what was said. Any other articles on the site that might have been intentionally somewhat unbiased are pretty much irrelevant now. The hit pieces today will be massive in order for them to try and counter any sort of positive media coverage, and this is the first one that has really caught my eye so far.

Ron Paul likely won't win a single presidential primary. He's awful on television and even worse in debates. Still his rabid wild eyed supporters that range from the anti-war crowd to tin foil hat wearing nuts to white supremacists to Libertarians that dream of "taking back" the Republican Party will definitely heap some cash on the 71-year old doctor from Texas.

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I think that's accurate. That is a lot of cash. But what good will it really do? Paul's message has a very narrow appeal and no matter how much money he rakes in it won't bring people over to his campaign besides his fringe supporters. Worse - he's dry on television, (his Leno appearance failed miserably to create any mainstream buzz) and when he does get a little fired up in debates his voice turns into a high pitched squeal.

Handicapping him on electability is quite simple. He can't make it. There's no Ron Paul sound bite that ever plays well and he has no charisma. Paul is very intelligent, but that really doesn't help in a nationwide election. He also has some very good ideas, but one has to wade through to much tripe just to hear them.

November Ron Paul Money Bomb a Huge Success

Update (02:10 PM CDT) : $2,134,823

If you haven't donated yet, please go DONATE NOW! The November 5th money bomb is now well over two million, and on track to reach in or around five million before day's end. If you haven't donated, please do it. The amount of press this is going to get will be massive, and it's long past due.

***This November 5th***

Nationally Televised Bipartisan Debate On Energy Possibly Snubbing Ron Paul

The MSNBC-televised debate next month is being put together by the Greater Houston Partnership and the Sierra Club, focusing on many issues dealing with "oil and gas drilling and nuclear power." Even though Ron Paul is a representative of the Houston area, even though his fresh ideas on oil and alternative sources of energy are tenfold that of the other Republican candidates, and even though he has seemingly leapfrogged "I'll talk to my lawyers" Romney as a top tier candidate, they have not yet invited him to speak. They claim that they compiled the list of candidates 2-3 months ago based on their estimate on who the the top contenders were at the time, which would make it even more bizarre that Fred Thompson is included, seeing as he wasn't even a candidate at the time. The fact that they would put together a serious debate on issues and base their candidate choices on two or more months ago is absurd, especially considering John McCain was plummeting at the time. The Houston Chronicle says however that the Partnership is considering adding four more candidates, including Paul, although I'm not so sure that they would even think of such if Clinton hadn't turned them down. The momentum of Ron Paul is colossal in size right now. The hit pieces, ridicule, and media blackouts are only getting started.

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