Ron Paul Overwhelmingly wins Alabama and New Hampshire
Aug 20th, 2007 by Brian A. Thomas
While the media gladly reported the surface story of the Iowa straw poll, though none of them really mentioned Dr. Paul’s 5th place finish, one network going so far as to mention 1 to 4 and then jump to 6th… None of them seem to be covering the Alabama or New Hampshire Straw Polls. In New Hampshire Ron Paul got 73% of the votes, in Alabama Paul won with 216 votes to second place finisher Romney with 14 votes. (Daily Paul)
Such strong wins really does call into question what happened in Iowa. While the Ron Paul campaign has stated they are happy with everything, a small number of his supporters are questioning the results. The Iowa straw poll was run by one of Romney’s (who won you will recall, thanks perhaps in large part to him buying everyone’s tickets and busing them in) people. Further there seems to be about 12,000 votes missing and while some of those 12,000 probably didn’t actually show up, the number of people who showed up and the actual number of votes counted fell way short. Why would somebody have a $35 ticket to vote and not vote? How is somebody involved with one of the candidates allowed to run the poll? Two of the 60 machines malfunctioned, one of which had 500 votes (you can do the math yourself and find how many missing votes there are from the other machines if 500 is the average…apparently the other must have had 1000 since they re-fed 1500 votes through the two, yet somehow we are to believe the actual average across all 60 is 238…) (Infowars) I don’t know where I stand on the Iowa thing, but it is great to see such strong numbers out of Alabama and New Hampshire, now if only the media would actually do their job and report the news… oh, wait, that’s right they are controlled by people who don’t want to see Paul win.
