Slow learner?

SurveyUSA is still not including the (likely) top Republican fundraiser in their polls. Is it just to be different? Might I suggest a body piercing instead?

Lingering bias -- death by a thousand cuts?

It's hard not to see when you're attuned (some might say hypersensitive) to it.

A fresh example: would you know that Ron Paul polled the same as Mitt Romney in the latest Quinnipiac poll in New York from looking at RealClearPolitics here or here? But, he did:

"...and 5 percent each for Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today." [12/17/07]

(It's also worth noting that Paul's 5% is up from 1% in October, whereas Romney's is down from 7%.)

Yet how many other sites and news anchors will cite RealClearPolitics and, like them, leave out Ron Paul's tie with a "top tier" candidate (albeit near the bottom of the crowd, but above Tancredo and Duncan)? What is the cumulative effect of a thousand such slights?

Welcome...

...refugees from crashed Paul sites... ;)

Atop Drudge

They're noticing

We're gonna need a bigger blimp

Farmocracy

"[Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner] said...Congress should deny farm subsidies to people with more than $200,000 a year in adjusted gross income."

Wow, $200k. That shouldn't be too controversial.

"The Senate would block subsidies to people with more than $750,000 a year in adjusted gross income from the 2010 crop year unless at least 67 percent of their income is from farming. The House would bar payments to anyone with an AGI above $1 million and a $500,000 AGI limit for part-time farmers."

Oh.

"When I get all steamed up..."

The calm before the (second) storm

Week-on-week Q4 fundraising by Ron Paul here.

Last three weeks only here.

A pretty steep drop-off, right?

Storm...here. Think green tea.

He's already at $11.43 million of his $12 million Q4 goal--a goal which, in October, seemed too high. This weekend the campaign will wave at that quaint marker as they depart the tea-steeped harbor for...interesting seas.

Meanwhile, in the other Carolina

The blimp is aloft.

And 500+ people are watching live video--when it works--from inside one of the chase cars:


Watch live video from ronpaulblimp on Justin.tv

Clumped in Carolina

South Carolina, that is...




Numbers for this chart are taken from CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll (reported here).

So who is The Kurgan?

True, "there can be only one." But Ron Paul wants to give the Prize back to the People. (For non-Highlander fans: the Queen song in the video was part of the soundtrack.)

Oh, The...Humanity?

'Tardette is on top of the "incompetence" of independent Ron Paul supporters (who have apparently maxed out on legal direct donations). Incompetence = efforts to organize the flying of a giant blimp promoting Ron Paul up the East coast just before the anticipated record-re-breaking fundraiser being behind schedule. Can the campaign survive this disaster?

But Reagan and McDonald still own "Ronald"

Top "Ron"'s at Google:
1- the 2008 presidential candidate
2- the Harry Potter character
3- the Italian musician

Top "Paul"'s at Google:
1- the Apostle
2- the 2008 presidential candidate
3- the Beatle

Tom Tancredo Revolution

Tancredo is leading Glenn Beck's web poll (right side, half way down). Well now, why do you suppose that might be...?