RON PAUL RANKS 10% IN FINAL IOWA POLL!
Submitted by davidg11 on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 13:07
Ron Paul will win third place in Iowa!
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/20...
In the Republican race, Mike Huckabee expanded his lead to six points, 31 to 25 percent, over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the one-time leader in Iowa who has attacked Huckabee for his record as Arkansas governor.
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is in third place in the Republican race at 11 percent and Arizona Sen. John McCain slipped two points to 10 percent. Texas Rep. Ron Paul also registered 10 percent.
WOO HOO!
GO RON!
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actually he could place
actually he could place higher than that ....consider it is an open caucas and democrats and independents can vote for him ....they poll previous registered republicans from 2004....
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doesn't equal 100%
The percentages for the Dems are accounted for, but the Reps are missing at least 5% somewhere.
i kind of like the low poll
i kind of like the low poll numbers - it'll increase the impact of his finish in iowa and NH. also, the farther away his actual finish is from the poll numbers will better serve to discredit the polls in general.
Agreed!
Worse case would be vote totals below poll numbers, coupled with a fifth or even sixth place finish.
But what matters now is not polls but the great Ron Paul supporters standing in the freezing cold of IA to wave and remind voters to ignore the OM, or calling the last few people in IA to make sure they vote, or driving the voters to the polls. That will be what gets us most along in the ..
re[love]ution,
Dennis
Don't Vote For Ron Paul for anything less than
Re[love]ution & Renaissance
Dennis
Actually, you misread this poll...
This poll is done over a multi-day period. The last day is dropped and the nearest day is added. The average is less important than the direction. Ron Paul's numbers are moving up and McCains are moving down, so Paul's position entering into voting is better than the poll indicates.
We need double digits in IA and fourth place to make a case for "viability". This argues that that is within our reach, and perhaps more is available. But we still need to get the vote out
Not that we believe polls, as they miss the depth of the passion for the...
re[love]ution,
Dennis
Don't Vote For Ron Paul for anything less than
Re[love]ution & Renaissance
Dennis
Would Be Much Higher If
Would be much higher if RP was on the phone polls. I wonder what all the other votes mean or the undecided? I don't trust any of the polls being done except the ones open publicly on the internet such as the AOL Straw Poll http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/21/straw-poll-... and MSNBC voting poll http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21116732 and The News Max Poll. Lan Line polls are not correct and are excluding RP name when being conducted. We will know sometime tonight or early morning tomorrow how well Ron is Doing. Go Ron Paul!
What?
lol! Online straw polls are probably the most inaccurate thing out there.
What it speaks to, however, is the amount of passion for a particular candidate from its supporters.
I do agree that when they say the poll has a 3.3% error, I always give that percentage to Ron Paul's favor.
I really never thought much of Iowa for Ron Paul for several reasons. First, as we can tell how Huckabee is doing, this is not a libertarian electorate like New Hampshire is.
Second, and most important for me, is that Iowa's population is OLD. Most young people move away from the state. And we know most of Ron Paul's support is youngish (50 and younger).
However it IS impressive that Ron has FINALLY hit double digits in this state polling via regular landlines from republicans.
And we all know Ron Paul will DECIMATE the tie from McCain and 1 percentage point lead Fred Thompson has in this poll.
Ron Paul came from nowhere at 2% to 10% and will place at least THIRD tonight in a state NO ONE thought he'd do well!
Decimating TOP TIER CANDIDATES!
GO RON!
This was a WIDESPREAD POLL too
The rolling poll of 905 likely Democratic caucus-goers and 914 likely Republican caucus-goers was taken Sunday through Wednesday and has a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points for each party
That's a lot better than some of these 400-500 people polls coming out lately.
It's in the bag people!
Ron Paul will beat AT LEAST three frontrunners:
Fred Thompson
Rudy Giuliani
John McCain
Here's the link to the Reuters/Zogby/CSPAN poll!
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0264367920080103
Also good news is that Hillary is fading fast!