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Kathianne
12-21-2007, 08:12 AM
Rasmussen has some very interesting results for both parties:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll


Thursday, December 20, 2007

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows a continuing slide for Rudy Giuliani. In the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination, it’s Mike Huckabee at 21%, John McCain and Mitt Romney at 15% each, Giuliani at 13% and Fred Thompson at 12% (see recent daily numbers). Ron Paul currently attracts 6% of Likely Republican Primary voters nationwide.

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A look at recent polling data suggests it’s a good time to be John McCain. McCain has doubled his support in Iowa and is surging in New Hampshire. The McSurge comes as Huckabee’s tide has started pulling back from its high water mark. Data released earlier this week shows Huckabee losing his lead in both Iowa and South Carolina. Still, the rise of Huckabee has thrown the Republican race into disarray.

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Clinton has reversed her downward trend in New Hampshire and now holds a three-point advantage. Newly released data shows that the Democratic race in Iowa remains too close to call. Iowa still looms large for Clinton....

Hugh Lincoln
12-21-2007, 08:52 AM
What this says to me is that polls aren't always great indicators. Huckabee won't be president and Obama won't, either. Prolly Romney or Hillary, and voters are just taking hot rods out for a spin before purchasing the Chevy.

Now that Tancredo supporters are directed to Romney, that should be a boost for him.

Pale Rider
12-21-2007, 02:07 PM
What this says to me is that polls aren't always great indicators. Huckabee won't be president and Obama won't, either. Prolly Romney or Hillary, and voters are just taking hot rods out for a spin before purchasing the Chevy.

Now that Tancredo supporters are directed to Romney, that should be a boost for him.

I don't think Obama Bin Laden or Hitlery can win, against anybody. The latest poll says 40% of all Americans, that's "ALL" Americans, say they would vote "against" Hillary for President. That's enough right there to ensure she's never going to see the White House. I think Edwards will bump them both.

If I had to make a long range bet on who will be our next President, I'd say Romney.

Hagbard Celine
12-21-2007, 02:09 PM
I don't think Obama Bin Laden or Hitlery can win, against anybody. The latest poll says 40% of all Americans, that's "ALL" Americans, say they would vote "against" Hillary for President. That's enough right there to ensure she's never going to see the White House. I think Edwards will bump them both.

If I had to make a long range bet on who will be our next President, I'd say Romney.

There's no way to tell right now. My intuition says a 'pub candidate will win. I hope it's Ron Paul.

Pale Rider
12-21-2007, 02:20 PM
There's no way to tell right now. My intuition says a 'pub candidate will win. I hope it's Ron Paul.

True. It's really to far off to tell and can and will happen. But, one can make an educated guess, and you know what mine is. You just read it.

Paul doesn't have a snow balls chance in hell either. All he's doing is making things interesting.

Kathianne
12-21-2007, 02:21 PM
There's no way to tell right now. My intuition says a 'pub candidate will win. I hope it's Ron Paul.

Not me for Paul, not by a longshot:

But they support him and he knows them.

Ron Paul's Photo-Op with Stormfront

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28353_Ron_Pauls_Photo-Op_with_Stormfront#comments


Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 3:53:50 pm PST

An LGF reader emailed this photograph, showing Ron Paul at the Values Voters Presidential Debate in Fort Lauderdale on September 17, 2007. Immediately to Paul’s left: Don Black, the owner of neo-Nazi hate site Stormfront. If anyone knows who the creepy guy in the hat is, please post a comment. Now I can see Ron Paul trying to appeal to evangelicals, but Black? Then again, maybe Stormfront saw an opening, which I hope did not appeal to Evangelicals at the Forum. Now if Paul just wishes to say, 'but heh, every posed with the Nazis', sure would be nice to see some evidence of that.:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/372/20071220ronpauldonblackwb1.jpg


Now comes Ron Paul acting like taking their money is to keep them from having it to spend, wow. In September he seemed cozy enough, as shown in the pic. **Edit** The hat guy is Black's son, Derek. He has his own little kiddie column at Stormfront.:

http://reason.com/blog/show/124032.html


Then Cavuto pivots to the Black story:

CAVUTO: There are reports, sir, that your campaign has received a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist in West Palm Beach. And your campaign had indicated you have no intention to return it. What are you going to do with that?

PAUL: It is probably already spent. Why give it back to him and use it for bad purposes?

And I don't even know his name. I never heard of it. You know, when you get 57,000 donations a day, are we supposed to screen them and find out their beliefs? He sent the money for my beliefs. And if he promoting my viewpoints and my attitudes, why give it back to him if he has bad viewpoints? Kind of hard to say that after the picture, from September?

And I don't endorse anything that he endorses or what anybody endorses. They come to me to endorse freedom and the Constitution and limited government. So, I see no purpose for me to start screening everybody that sends me money. I mean, it is impossible to do it. It is a ridiculous idea that I am supposed to screen these people.

CAVUTO: All right. So, Congressman, when you find out that it's this Don Black who made the donation, and who ran a site called Stormfront, White Pride Worldwide, now that you know it, now that you're familiar after the fact, you still would not return it?

PAUL: Well, if I spent his money and I took the money that maybe you might have sent to me and donate it back to him, that does not make any sense to me. Why should I give him money to promote his cause? That doesn't make any sense to me.

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Here's the Cavuto graf:

Then Cavuto pivots to the Black story:

CAVUTO: There are reports, sir, that your campaign has received a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist in West Palm Beach. And your campaign had indicated you have no intention to return it. What are you going to do with that?

PAUL: It is probably already spent. Why give it back to him and use it for bad purposes?

And I don't even know his name. I never heard of it. You know, when you get 57,000 donations a day, are we supposed to screen them and find out their beliefs? He sent the money for my beliefs. And if he promoting my viewpoints and my attitudes, why give it back to him if he has bad viewpoints?

And I don't endorse anything that he endorses or what anybody endorses. They come to me to endorse freedom and the Constitution and limited government. So, I see no purpose for me to start screening everybody that sends me money. I mean, it is impossible to do it. It is a ridiculous idea that I am supposed to screen these people.

CAVUTO: All right. So, Congressman, when you find out that it's this Don Black who made the donation, and who ran a site called Stormfront, White Pride Worldwide, now that you know it, now that you're familiar after the fact, you still would not return it?

PAUL: Well, if I spent his money and I took the money that maybe you might have sent to me and donate it back to him, that does not make any sense to me. Why should I give him money to promote his cause? That doesn't make any sense to me.

Well it's the way it goes, first pictures then more connections:

And the VNN site is either being overwhelmed or has been shut down.

http://lonestartimes.com/2007/12/19/rpb3/



The “Commander” of the American National Socialist Workers Party (i.e., the “Nazis”) has posted the following statement over at VNN, another leading White Supremacist hate-site.


Comrades:

I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn’t see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul’s extensive involvement in white nationalism.

Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.

I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.

For his spokesman to call white racialism a “small ideology” and claim white activists are “wasting their money” trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.

I don’t know that it is necessarily good for Paul to “expose” this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous — and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.

The Commander’s fellow Nazis are not in the least bit happy with him for posting this; here’s a screenshot (click to expand), in case they pull it down.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3682/naziwhitescreenshothl2.jpg

Attention Paultards– we are now entering the part of the news cycle where your candidate constantly gets asked about whether or not he or his senior staffers frequently attend lunch with a bunch of racist nutjobs. With any luck, someone took pictures.

During this period, the words “Ron Paul” and “Nazi” will appear in close proximity in print, on-air and on-line many thousands of times. People who only know a little bit about Ron Paul will be discussing this in elevators on the way into work tomorrow morning.

And because I love to say I told you so, I will.

I told you so.