Paul makes history in first-in-nation voting state
With 99% of precincts reporting, Ron Paul came in a strong third at the Iowa caucuses, gaining 21% of the vote.
- Mitt Romney 30,015 votes (25%)
- Rick Santorum 30,007 votes (25%)
- Ron Paul 26,219 votes (21%)
- Newt Gingrich 16,251 votes (13%)
- Rick Perry 12,604 votes (10%)
- Michele Bachmann 6,073 votes (5%)
- Jon Huntsman 745 votes (1%)
The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign is celebrating a great victory with its strong top-three finish at the Iowa Caucus. Below please find comments from Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton:
“The Ron Paul campaign is celebrating a great victory tonight.
There were three tickets out of Iowa, and Ron Paul earned one of them.
One of the three tickets, the one belonging to Rick Santorum, is a dead-end due to Santorum’s weak fundraising and lack of national campaign organization.
This is now a two way race between establishment candidate Mitt Romney and the candidate for real change, Ron Paul.
Ron Paul has a top notch national organization, tremendous fundraising prowess, and unequaled enthusiasm among his volunteers and supporters.
Dr. Paul has taken the first step towards earning the delegates it will take to be the GOP nominee and is the only candidate not named Mitt Romney with the ability to do so.
Ron Paul is now off to New Hampshire, South Carolina, Louisiana, Nevada, Maine, North Dakota, Washington, Colorado, and beyond.
See you on the campaign trail.”
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Ron Paul did wonderful considering all the News Networks trashed talked him into the ground. They spent hours trashing him. nothing fair and Balanced. Fox News saying voting for Paul was wasting your vote. Paul can not only beat any Republican. He can beat Obama. I am sick to death of Fox News and Donald Trump. I usually love watching iFox News. But, Just wrong what they did to all. One after other comentators all trashing. When finally had Ron Pauls son on. They first thing. They said. Won,t your father cause Obama to win. Shouldn,t your father get out of the race. Before the race even started.
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Rick and Mitt will crash and burn both slimy liars! The honest man will come through!
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LOL. This is rich. Ron Paul supporters are “Creepy and Loony”. The guy (RP) finds 26,000+ mindless idiots in Iowa to vote for him, which is a miracle in itself and these morons say that most of his votes were stolen. LOL. The number of votes he did get in Iowa shows how dangerous it is to just drive through that stupid state.
The real conspiracy that’s taking place right under your nose is the one that Mitt R. is putting together (once he’s president) to round up all of Ron Pauls supporters and deport them back to the nut houses where they escaped from . Check it out.
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@Dennis Johnson Dennis- Ron Paul has real support because he is offering a real explaination to the economic woes the US is facing and the solution- cut the debt. He is a highly honorable man as far as going out and fighting for our rights as citizens. Just look at the patriot act for example. Do you really think the GOVERNMENT should be allowed to take our rights away when things get hairy overseas or even in-house? It is SO obvious that most candidates are power hungry and care more about themselves then the public. I am sorry that you feel RP folks are loony, some of them are I’m not denying that. But really look at the issues and facts. Who can we trust to do us right in the white house? Only one name comes to mind.
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@Dennis Johnson Ron Paul made a great showing not because of Republicans, but because of ‘crossovers’. His anti-war stance is most appealing to Dems, who are sick of smooth talking liars who justify murder by calling it war.
That’s why he has a great chance of winning – Dems far outnumber Reps and if he appeals more to them and less to the warloving Reps (like yourself Mr. Johnson) he’ll easily skate to the convention.
What most people won’t comment on is the huge elephant in the room – that most of what Ron Paul espouses will happen anyway if our administration doesn’t make decisive changes. We will lose our bases to governments that we owe money to, we will have more Lehman-style implosions that will leave people suddenly penniless (as an account holder of the recent MF Global collapse can tell you) and we will lose at least one giant Dept of Sucking Govt Money with Little to Show for it (take your pick, DEpt of Ed, HUD, Energy, etc).
Why? It is because we simply can’t afford them.
We need to make the hard decisions not before those decisions are made for us. And they will be made for us if we do nothing, or so little that it doesn’t do anything. Credit only exists where there is capital, and when that is gone there is nothing to extend.
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Folks I respectfully disagree about the voting being “rigged”. I beg you Ron Paul supporters to please stop looking for conspiracy everywhere. Don’t worry, I’m sure Dr. Paul would let us know if there was some problems here. As long as there is no word from him, all the complaining does is add to the sense other voters get that Ron Paul supporters are “creepy”… or “loony”. These are the exact people I’m trying to convert so it is important. Keep it fact based please.
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@Scott R
Yes!!! And Israel was behind the 1993 WTC bombing! (See http://wexblog.prwexler.com for details!!!!
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@Scott R I tend to agree. I am by no means a conspiracy theorist. Plenty of them on the socialist side of the spectrum and plenty of them on the social conservative side too.
Occam’s Razor is my guid.
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Ron Paul!! Please please please please understand that with everything you give as supporters and campaign-members you never ever gonna win if you don’t check the voting-machines and how the votes are being counted!!!! That’s how he lost Iowa etc. in 2008!!!!!! And that would be a big disappointment again!! Watch ”Hacking Democracy” a documentary about this…….. Bommetje from China
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I think Ron Paul actually won by a landslide, but the voting process is rigged. Why are we still using the same electronic voting machines (built by Diebold) that were discovered in California to be committing vote fraud and had to pay millions in restitution ? Highly intelligent people running for office, yet no one is questioning the validity of the vote count. We should go back to the original way of hand-held ballots, audited by hand-picked, volunteer Reps. from each cadidate as the ballots come in. We should be guarding the voting process like Fort Knox ! Our freedom is at stake. (see documentary DVD ” Hacking Democracy”. Truely bone-chilling.)
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It’s necessary for Ron Paul supporters to make certain to pose a few questions to Santorum’s would be supporters…as for example how would he pay for an expanded war against Iran, and how would he manage to dislodge Syria from Lebanon as he claims he wants to do. To say that he stands for one thing or another is easy to do, to actually show how he intends to pay for such military excursions is another. He is simply offering to keep the Ben Bernanke free money flowing for years even if the American people are drowning in debt. You should also point out that Rupert Murdoch endorsed him and the fact that the only thing Rupert Murdoch believes in is the expansion of the wars and wants Rick Santorum to play the part of George Bush once again!
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I was seriously thinking of voting for Jon Huntsman if Ron Paul got screwed out of it, until he acted like a total pussy over a light-hearted tweet. He can NOT handle the pressures of presidency.
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Yes.
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BTW, the finishes gave the first three candidates 7 delegates – so much for third place…
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Dr Paul You should challenges Iowa results I know the GOP like to cheat They want Romney and how can Rick soar with in a few day. they made in look good so there be no challenges. you need to fight them. We the American need you. I am there for you and let take back our country.
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