CNN’s Ticker wonders if the recent groundswell of support Ron Paul is enjoying online rises to the level of a “phenomenon.” So far, Paul’s catalog of feats includes:
“Ron Paul” is among the top-searched terms on Technorati, the popular site that tracks blog posts. According to the community Web site, Eventful, there are more than 16,000 outstanding “demands” for Paul to appear in cities across the country – that’s up 11,000 from just one week ago, leapfrogging him over Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York. Ron Paul video clips get plenty of play on YouTube and there is no shortage of blogs devoted to his support.
The question is, will this enthusiasm translate into real world metrics. Certainly the polling doesn’t show much movement (although the new FoxNews poll — taken the evening of and after Tuesday’s debate — has him rising from 1% to 2%.) But over on the fundraising side of things, if this story is true, we could indeed have a phenomenon on our hands.
Congressman Ron Paul’s donations have moved up – not by hundreds of thousands – but by millions as a result of his debate performances and groundswell of support on the Internet and in New Hampshire, observers close to the campaign say.
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[they] are revealing – with some astonishment – that donations to the campaign in recent weeks have pushed the total up to perhaps $4 or $5 million.
Of course, the source of the story is something called Free-Market News Network, Corp., whose very name would seem to betray a bias toward Paul, but look for mainstream media to start to report this leading up to the June 30 end of quarter fundraising deadline for a sense of whether there’s any truth to it. But as of now, his fans in the tubes sure are eating it up.
UPDATE: Speak o’ the devil, Ron Paul is running second in the Facebook/Newsvine election poll with 10% of the entire vote (behind Obama with 21% and ahead of Giuliani who has 8%.)
3 Responses to “Is Ron Paul Catching On?”
I hope Ron Paul is catching on…He’s a decent man with commonsense views and that’s a rare combination for a politician…
Keep the donations to Ron Paul Flowing, ever increasing.
Love to Ron Paul.
Something to say?
I recently explored combining the results of both the online (unscientific) polls and the scientific polls. I assigned a weighting to each and reached a score to rank the top 3 Republican candidates and Ron Paul. Check it out at http://marcg.net/blog/archives/45
Enjoy,
Chubbs
Left by Marc
June 8, 2007 at 3:53am