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Ron Paul breaks all previous one-day fund-raising records!!!

by James Buchanan

The Ron Paul Boston Tea Party fund-raiser got off to an electrifying start, raising $10,000 per minute at times after the clock ticked over to 12:01am Dec. 16th. The rate gradually slowed as the wee hours of the night approached. By morning on the east coast, Ron Paul had already raised well over a million dollars while most people were asleep. The rate rapidly accelerated in the morning from $1,000 per minute to almost $6,000 per minute and stayed there for a good portion of the day. A lump sum of telephone contributions were added to the e-donations in the last hour of the fund-drive causing considerable confusion. The rate of donations picked up sharply in the last hour, jumping well above $10,000 per minute for a good portion of the last hour. Many supporters reported that the Ron Paul donation page appeared to freeze up in the last few minutes as a flood of donations poured in. There appears to be considerable confusion about what the exact tally was for the Dec. 16th fund drive. It appears to be very close to 6.5 million dollars. The total may even surpass this once the last hour’s telephone donations are added in.

The total fund-raising for the quarter has surpassed 18 million dollars, exceeding Ron Paul’s goal of 12 million by over 50 percent. It should be noted that Ron Paul has accomplished this despite an oppressive media black out by the controlled news networks. Also the Paul campaign (much to the frustration of his supporters) has not yet spent one penny on nation-wide advertising, which could add millions of wealthy supporters from California alone. Paul’s nation-wide appearances have been limited to the debates, an interview on the Jay Leno Show and The View, a full-page ad in the USA Today (bought entirely by a supporter) and very little else. Ron Paul’s support base has grown almost entirely from the Internet combined with an amazingly enthusiastic grass roots effort.

Ron Paul’s last fund-raiser netted an amazing 4.3 million on November 5th. That fund-raiser put Ron Paul into the same financial league as Giuliani or Romney. Naturally the media gave Paul zero respect and pretended that he had little more voter support than Tom Tancredo. Anyone, who has been in politics for a good amount of time, knows that you can’t magically raise millions of dollars unless you have a large percentage of the people behind you.

Consider Ron Paul’s run for president as a Libertarian. He had the same pro-freedom, small government philosophy. But back then, he was only supported by a few percent of the population, and he wasn’t able to raise any money. Few people = few dollars. After six years of the Bush-Cheney regime and a relentless march toward a shadowy police state with no rights and perpetual war, suddenly a LARGE percentage of people have turned to Ron Paul to bring them out of this mess and restore the Bill of Rights.

A realistic estimate would give Ron Paul over 15 percent support during the first fund-raiser and his current base of support is somewhere in the 25 to 35 percent range. The pollsters at Gallup and Rasmussen will almost certainly continue to lie about Paul right into the middle of the primaries. Their main concern is not to predict the primary accurately. They have an agenda to try to discourage Ron Paul supporters from voting for Dr. Paul. They are trying that old “you’re throwing your vote away” tactic that they used against Ross Perot. While Ron Paul’s fund-raiser was proving his massive, widespread popularity, some drones on CNN were insisting that voters must support a candidate “who can win like Giuliani.”

Ron Paul has won more straw polls than any other candidate. He has proven his ability to raise more money than any other candidate. Ron Paul has led an incredibly clean and decent life and has no skeletons in his closet unlike the disgraceful Mike Huckabee. Ron Paul is able to turn out more supporters at every event than any other candidate. The ONLY things, that suggest Ron Paul is not the front-runner in this election, are the extremely dubious results from a small collection of pollsters, who could easily have been bought up by a cabal interested in derailing the efforts of decent men like Ron Paul, and supporting the efforts of sell out, system politicians like Giuliani and Romney.

One article notes “There are many ways a poll can be skewed to hurt a candidate. Some are the result of sloppiness and laziness on the part of the pollster. For example many pollsters assume that the only people voting in a primary will be the people who voted in the last primary…While it’s understandable that early polls might accidentally assume the 2008 primary will be just like all the others, it is completely inexcusable that pollsters would keep making the same mistakes over and over for months, ignore the many Republican straw polls where Ron Paul places first and the hundreds of online polls, which invariably show Ron Paul placing first –often by a landslide. Such continued negligence suggests that these pollsters WANT Ron Paul to stay in the low single digits. New information has arisen that at least one pollster was adding questions about sex whenever anyone said they supported Ron Paul. Obviously, the sex question would offend most people and get them to hang up, which would invalidate their support for Ron Paul since they didn’t answer all the questions in the poll.”

Frustrated by the dishonest tactics of the pollsters, Alex Jones commissioned a cleanly-worded poll as a means of determining Ron Paul’s true popularity. A recent news article reports “Thanks to Internet radio host Alex Jones, the Zogby polling firm was forced to do a clean, straightforward poll, which asked ordinary Americans, whom they would support for president. The poll described the political philosophies of four candidates so that people were voting based on issues rather than solely on hype or name recognition. The winner of this poll was Ron Paul, who scored an impressive 33 percent first place finish, with Giuliani finishing second with 19 percent.”

If ordinary Republicans want a candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton, they need someone who can rival her fund-raising ability and who has got a truly popular message. Only Ron Paul has the money and popularity to defeat Hillary Clinton.