Ron Paul Leads GOP Debate Polling, Once Again

Wednesday, June 06, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

Though the seating arrangements and even the number of questions addressed to "second tier" presidential candidates were designed to "showcase" so-called major candidates, the Ron Paul (R-Tex) Internet poll surge continues.

The CNN poll gives him a decisive victory in last night's GOP debate.

http://tinyurl.com/ypbes3

The following CNN link is available for those who wish to vote:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/debates/scorecard/gop.debate/

Over at MSNBC, Ron Paul is winning as well, by wide margins.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18963731/

At Vote.com, feedbacker Joe Osborne writes that Ron Paul is "in the lead at 77%."

http://vote.com/vResults/index.phtml

Ron Paul, according to some supporters of the campaign, gave the most eloquent and convincing answer of any modern, televised debate when he identified President George Bush's pre-emptive war doctrine as the single most troubling moral issue faced by United States.

With Internet polls, showing Ron Paul convincingly ahead of the other presidential candidates in every debate, the mainstream media is going to have address the phenomenon sooner or later in a serious manner, these observers add. Otherwise the divide between Internet opinion and phone surveys will erode the credibility of professional polling firms - already damaged by "push polling" and other practices.

Staff Reports - Free-Market News Network

1. 6/6/2007 - 8:25:7AM
BY: Joe Osborne
Here is another poll at Vote.com to add to this article. Once again, Ron Paul is in the lead at 77%.

http://vote.com/vResults/index.phtml

2. 6/6/2007 - 9:0:10AM
BY: Doug Ritter
An email I just sent to CNN:

Despite how little coverage you gave Dr. Paul in the "debate" (note: did anyone at CNN go to high school? At least when I was there, they taught us what a debate is and what you aired last night was NOT a debate in any sense of the term), which I suspect was a calculated move on your part, he's still winning your online poll.

Isn't that interesting? The implications are numerous and I suspect you are fully aware of them, so I won't reiterate.

The Constitution matters to the American people, the tradition of personal liberty runs deep.

Yours in true patriotism.

3. 6/6/2007 - 9:3:21AM
BY: Bill
I wonder if Keith Oldermann would interview him on his evening Countdown Program. It's worth a try, and would make for good viewing. Also, those who liked watching Paul on the Daily Show should e-mail thank yous to the Daily Show and it's sponsors--give um some love!

FMNN REPLY: Have you seen The Daily Show message boards?

4. 6/6/2007 - 9:14:54AM
BY: Alexander Saint Croix
I want to point out that the link on this page to the CNN poll results tells me that I voted for Dr. Paul, even though I have not yet done so. This indicates that your link might be skewing poll results by making the decisions for your readers. Were I you, I would link to the neutral URL submitted below. I am going to point this out to CNN, though I'm not certain a link could do this--I'm a big fan of Dr. Paul, but still concerned with the truth. Thank you for the story!

Here's a neutral link to the poll results--let your viewers make the decisions for themselves!

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/debates/scorecard/gop.debate/results.html

FMNN REPLY: Thank you.

5. 6/6/2007 - 9:54:0AM
BY: Mike
Where did Giuliani come up with his rambling "Lincoln quote?"

FMNN REPLY: From the same place as the one about the benefits of "nation building?"

6. 6/6/2007 - 10:48:44AM
BY: Bill
Kinda funny hearing the "Constitution" mentioned by some of the candidates last night including the former mayor. Gee I wonder where Giuliani picked up that "we are now friends with Vietnam" reference. One thing became clear last night: the candidates are hearing Dr. Paul's message loud and clear.

7. 6/6/2007 - 11:2:33AM
BY: Ken J.
RE: CNN voting procedure per feedback comment #4 6/6/2007

Good point Alex! I followed the FMNN link to CNN.com and did not immediately see any way that I could vote. After a lot of fumbling around, I landed on the vote entry page where you do get to drag the little pictures of the candidates onto blank squares to indicate your answer to CNN's (sometimes silly) questions about the NH debate.

It looks like FMNN may have unintentionally misled (some?) readers to think the CNN polls were no longer open to voters. The link to the neutral URL that Alexander Saint Croix submitted still does not take the reader to a page where your polling vote can be submitted. This should be corrected and pointed out to FMNN readers.

In any case, these internet poll results and the mainstream TV (and CNN.com) headline polling results are vastly different... Why, and what's the real scoop on that?

Another thought: If there is a deliberate effort to suppress the reporting of legitimate Ron Paul support by CNN (and FOX), will the Electoral College perform likewise in '08, or will the election just be "fixed" instantly by the new fraud prone electronic voting machines?

8. 6/6/2007 - 11:47:58AM
BY: Zag
The previous feedback writer is correct. The functional voting link is: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/debates/scorecard/gop.debate/

FMNN REPLY: OK, added.

9. 6/6/2007 - 21:55:38PM
BY: Guy Friday
Ron Paul much like Howard Dean in the last election makes too much sense. He identifies the White Elephant, and that will be his downfall. America is not ready for a real Classical Liberal. America is not ready to take responsibility for itself. We will have some ineffectual, moderate, "something or other" to set the stage for a totalitarian expansion of executive power put in motion by the current administration through the courts.

10. 6/7/2007 - 0:38:20AM
BY: Robert
Considering that Congress has already ignored the will of the people as expressed by their revulsion of the Bush Administration's enthrallment to the military-industrial policies of perpetual warfare, the real question is:

What can peace-loving people do to stop the machine?

The "mainstream" candidates showed their true colors early on.

Huckabee:Muslims live only to kill themselves while trying to kill you.

McCain: This is the Apocalypse. We must nuke Iran.

Giuliani: It's a matter of good (us) vs. evil, and evil must be destroyed. (lets nuke Iran)

Did one of them ever say: Oil prices[all prices] are going through the roof due to massive inflationary debt that we all voted for.The debt run up the past 6 years is equal to the sum of all pevious debts and is unpayable except at the point of a gun.

There is only one true conservative among them and he is not a war-monger.

A man who has helped bring several thousand people into the world will not, Cheney-like, feed them into a meat-grinder. If formerly war-like people like the Danes or the Norwegians can learn to live peacefully and prosper, so can we.


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