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Ron Paul Facebook Student
Network Tops 20,000
FreeMarketNews.com
Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
Mainstream media has labeled Ron Paul (R-Tex) as the
“Internet candidate” for his online success, especially
with 700-plus MeetUp groups. Less well reported is how well Ron
Paul is doing with college students around the nation. The campaign
is said to have over 100 Facebook.com student groups and likely
20,000-plus students participating nationally - a figure that
trounces all other candidates with the exception of Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama.
"Obama has been building a Facebook presence forever,"
said one source close to the Ron Paul campaign. "But the
Ron Paul effort took everybody by surprise. It was purely spontaneous."
In fact, student sentiment is seemingly hard to predict. The largest
campaign-oriented, national Facebook network of all is not a "pro"
forum at all, but is said to be an "anti-Hillary" group.
Facebook is a 'Net-based MeetUp-like facility, but one that is
well-known for penetrating a college-age audience. The 'Net facility
has also attracted some controversy, as FMNN has reported, for
its putative links to US intelligence agencies.
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Sources close to the Ron Paul campaign say that a new website
directly devoted to student activism is about to be rolled out
that will further build up Ron Paul's message and popularity in
the receptive college sector. The catalyst for tapping such student
activism was an independent, volunteer effort that apparently
raised close to $50,000 online for the Ron Paul campaign in the
second quarter of '07. The campaign has high hopes for more such
funding success during the rest of '07, as well as for the building
of an ever-larger base of student volunteers.
"For decades, students were routinely exposed to socialism
as the only answer to sociopolitical problems," points out
one source. "But the Internet has blown up that paradigm.
Students on the Internet can read about free-markets at a host
of sites - even if universities and faculties are doing their
best to discourage the message. Given the opportunity to choose
an intellectual and philosophical stance, many reasonable young
people opt for freedom, and its obvious benefits. That's why pro-free
market sentiment will continue to grow, and free-market candidates
such as Ron Paul are the obvious beneficiaries of that."
(Intelligence update.)
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