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Major National Poll: Election 2012 - Barack Obama 42%,
Ron Paul 41%
Will survey results and straw poll victories
spur Congressman to run?
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A major national poll of voters has found that a hypothetical
2012 election race between president Obama and Texas Congressman
Ron Paul results in an almost dead heat.
The
Rasmussen survey of likely voters finds Obama with
42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%)
say they prefer a different candidate, with 6% declaring themselves
undecided.
Though there are mixed feelings about the Congressman among
Republican voters, independent voters, those not affiliated
with either major party, give Paul a 47% to 28% edge over the
president.
According to Rasmussen, 39% of all voters have a favorable
opinion of Paul, while 30% view him unfavorably. This includes
10% with a very favorable opinion and 12% with a very unfavorable
one.
Twenty six percent (26%) of GOP voters think Paul shares the
values of most Republican voters throughout the nation, while
25% disagree. Forty-nine percent (49%) are not sure.
Thirty-four percent (34%) of nationwide voters see the Congressman
as a new direction for the GOP, according to the poll.
At the weekend, the Congressman virtually tied with Mitt Romney
in a GOP leadership 2012
straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
Romney received 439 votes to Paul's 438. Paul trounced Sarah
Palin and Newt Gingrich who received 330 and 321 votes respectively.
Despite this the mainstream media ran with headlines akin to
"Romney defeats Palin in straw poll", completely ignoring
Ron Paul and his supporters.
Prior to the SRLC poll, in February, Paul walked away with
the most support for a 2012 presidential bid in a straw poll
at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The Congressmen
attracted 31
percent of the vote.
The results of the survey and the straw polls are sure to spur
Ron Paul supporters to renew calls for the Congressman to mount
a presidential run in 2012.
In recent months Paul has said that he does not plan to repeat his 2008 campaign,
dubbed the "Ron Paul Revolution" by supporters.
At the height of the campaign in late 2007, the Congressman
smashed the all-time record for political donations on one day,
beating John Kerry's previous effort as he hauled
in over $6 million dollars during a 24-hour period
that coincided with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea
Party.
Indeed, as we have continuously highlighted, The Tea Party
movement, originally Libertarian in origin, grew out of this
trend of honouring the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
An event held in 2006 was repeated in 2007 with the Ron Paul
Money bomb, and the movement evolved from there over the following
three years.
Whether neocon and corporate Republicans like it or not, Ron
Paul has had and continues to have a far reaching impact upon
the direction of the party. Every intelligible thing that Sarah
Palin has said regarding limited government, fiscal economic
policy and the restoration of freedom is taken straight from
the Ron Paul handbook.
The core difference between Paul and Palin is that the Congressman
has built a real grass roots following over the course of several
decades. Paul is the real deal, while Palin, Romney and Gingrich,
on the other hand are all neocons at the core, supporting the
invasion and occupation of sovereign nations in step with the
grossly bloated empire building military industrial complex.
Never pandering to the crowds, Paul has consistently hammered
home this key difference, once again doing
so last weekend at the SRLC.
Of the current crop of possible 2012 GOP presidential candidates,
Ron Paul is once again the only one truly in step with the majority
anti-war, anti-big government sentiment in America.
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