I dont get this ron paul thing..everyone on the interenet say they like him.i see signs everywhere.no votes?

I dont see how everyone on youtube, yahoo answers all bloggers. Say Paul 08'. But he doesnt win anything...at least 1 or 2% of the vote...so i dont get it...why isnt all the signs i see everwhere..all the blimps that say Ron Paul..not translating into votes.?

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1. Ron Paul is a fictional character
2. Ron Paul is a loose cannon
3. same here
4. Ever hear of Diebold? Between that and the media all but ignoring him, even if he does have around 60 delegates at this time...is the reason it is not translating into votes.
5. It's pretty scary. Makes we wonder if the country was every for the people and by the people.
6. DING DING DING We have a very observant question here people. Are we supposed to believe these countless signs pop up out of nowhere? Ron Paul has huge support on message boards and call-in radio shows--areas that can't be scrubbed and filtered by those that steer media coverage. The power brokers of this country are SCARED of Mr. Paul's message. They have no interest in pulling us out of a pointless war in Iraq, and they don't even want to address the fact the Saudis completely financed Nine Eleven. Now I wonder, who has the power to do this? Our country is in deep trouble.
7. I hand out Ron Paul flyer's, and meet the public face to face about twice a week,,,and I'm sad to say the majority of Americans are not familiar at all with voting rules. They think if they registered many years ago they will always get a ballot. Well they do for the general election, but they don't realize in a 'closed primary' state they can only vote for whichever party they are registered as a member of, in the primary. I don't know whether to call this apathy or stupidity, but just in my small town 'hundreds' of people fall into this category. Even some members of my Ron Paul meet-up wouldn't re-register as Republicans. I carried registration forms with me and most Ron Paul supporters refused to change their party, just to vote for him. So, the neo-con, already registered voters are the ones voting on the Republican tickets, and the smaller number of Ron Paul votes reflects hard headed ignorance in my humble opinion. If we multiply these numbers all over the country, in all likely hood 10's of millions of would be Ron Paul voters simply did not vote! Thanks for the question. ********************************************************
8. Ron Paul has a ton of support from millions of people, yes millions of people. The media is afraid of him because he will throw a wrench into the works of their corporate government. He follows the Constitution and truly wants smaller government. REAL change scares people and people hate what they fear. Do more research on him. If you're looking for a smart man with real plans and one who cares about this country and it's people, then he's the only choice!
9. probably should have run as an independent
10. I'm not big into conspiracy theory, but I'll have to make an exception in Dr. Paul's case. Didn't the founders create the Constitution in the hopes that it would be good enough as to protect the people's liberties from what they knew government always devolved into? It's obvious to me that those holding the reigns of power are not excited about Dr. No coming to power! I firmly believe that, if Dr. Paul was the ONLY candidate, he'd only have a 10% chance of winning! Some hand-picked government stooge would miraculously appear as the front-runner and sweep the polls and win the election at the last minute even if 99% of the people who voted did so for Paul.
11. I think Doc hit it on the nail head here folks! Congressman Paul would REALLY shake up the "natives" in power & those natives are gonna be fighting with every thing they got to discredit Ron Paul. Worse yet, if Dr. Paul did get elected you can bet he'd just have an "unfortunate" accident, like falling down a looong set of stairs a couple three times or get electrocuted while using his electric(220 volts!) razor!!!
12. Well, there are a lot of opinions, but the most likely is that the little media Ron Paul got uniformly advertised that he was 'unlikely to win' and everyone is keen to make their vote 'count'. I know a LOT of people who say they WOULD vote for Ron Paul if they thought he had a chance, but they 'need to rally against Obama' or, early when there was a real chance of beating McCain 'have to vote for the more 'electable' candidate to beat McCain'. In Louisiana, Ron Paul should have won but the GOP played games with caucus delegates, using outdated registration lists to disqualify certified caucus delegates and calling the other campaigns to 'send down more people' after the GOP there decided Ron Paul supporters were too numerous - after the deadline for registering as a delegate had passed. That was an early state and a Ron Paul win would have positioned him very differently. Then on Super Tuesday, in Washington there was a very slim margin between the votes of the top three contenders of which Ron Paul was one. I read that up to 25% of the vote in some counties was thrown out because voters refused to sign a pledge at the bottom that they 'considered themselves a member of the party they were voting in'. This even though these are supposed to be open primary caucuses. That was a 10% total of the vote statewide that was thrown out. I have no idea who those people voted for, but that is a lot of votes to get so little press (you can find it if you google it.) If Ron Paul had on super tuesday won Louisiana and the Washington caucuses, when Romney pulled out precipitously (taking the certainty of a brokered convention with him) he'd have had much more momentum to become the person to vote for against McCain. As it was, only Huckabee had won states, and he got most of the anti-McCain vote until he dropped out. Clearly, a bunch of that were people who really liked his evangelical style, but a lot, in my mind, were voting against McCain. A lot didn't even vote or research candidates after super Tuesday, however. Then, on the delegate front, Ron Paul is the winner of candidates remaining in the race in Nevada, but the GOP there just decided McCain should get the delegates of Romney, who won the race. Romney's delegates apparently didn't agree since they joined Ron Paul supporters to force nominations of delegates from the floor, and Ron Paul was on the way to getting the vast majority of Nevada's delegates when the GOP there called recess due to 'time up' at 5:30, and fled the room turning off the lights (they didn't have enough people to get a recess vote.) They have yet to set a new date and it is widely anticipated that they are trying to do this in a way that the people voting on delegates will not be only or all of the people who showed up to vote at the initial convention. 300 delegates suspected of being Ron Paul delegates were forced in MO to travel up to 100 miles to face credentials committee challenges to their delegate credentials, with 5 minutes to rebut the charges, no information as to what the charges would be, despite requests for information, no ability to bring anyone to represent them, and no time to prepare. And you might be interested in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iW5kOB1pmg
13. Simple my friend: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs It is because the voting machines are tweaked to "flip the vote" to someone else. Above is a link to a video showing Clinton Curtis testify under oath on what can and HAS happened. He is a computer programmer who worked for NASA, Florida D.O.T., Wang Enterprises.....needless to say, he's credible. His testimony puts in perspective the way things operate in the Elitist-run 21st Century.
14. Ron Paul is a libertarian running on the republican ticket. The problem is that not being into the socialist mainstream is not known to most people. And being a responsible politician (I find it hard to write this but the truth is that he is) he's not looking for obscene media exposition and he's using the campaign funds responsibly. But the difference now is that with the Internet and the involvement of followers outside the party structure, Ron Paul is getting a lot of exposition. Even if he doesn't win (in fact, he's out at this moment) he made a huge change in many that found out that there's at least one politician in congress willing to take a stand for liberty and the Constitution. The reason why he's not getting so many votes is that most people fear liberty. I know it sounds harsh but that's the way it is. People fear the responsibility that liberty implies, the real liberty. You may think that you're free under a socialist regime because you can watch your favorite tv show without censorship but that's not what liberty is all about. Liberty is the ability to make the choices for your life freely and pay for the consequences if any, be responsible for them. Socialism tries to create the illusion that you're taken care of by a higher power (the government) and you're con into renouncing to your choices, your freedoms, in order to get that protection. It's a form of "polite slavery" or "social slavery" or "comfortable slavery" but it's slavery nevertheless. Ron Paul is a change in the right direction, the increase in support shows that most people understand the need to take the power from the federal government and return them to the states and to the people (tenth amendment). There's a lot you (and anyone) should read about him, check his web page and his record in congress. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he's the messiah or something like that. There's a lot about him that's far from my ideal libertarian. But he's the best choice now.