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Whatever happened to Ron Paul? Remember him?
Beginning tonight at California State University, Chico, Paul will accelerate the pace of his campaign and attempt to become part of the national conversation once again. Over the next 40 days Paul will hold rallies at 16 college campuses across the country -- a majority of them in California and Texas -- with plans of adding several more stops before schools adjourn for the summer.
Universities have been a friendly atmosphere for the 76-year-old presidential hopeful who attracts thousands of people to his rallies but who has yet to win a single statewide GOP contest.
“You have to reach out to more people than the Republican base,” Paul told WMAL Radio on Monday. “We’re going to have big turnouts in places where no other Republican can go. I’m going to go to Berkeley.”
Paul will hold a campaign rally on that campus Thursday -- not a typical stop for Republican presidential candidates.
According to Paul’s campaign chairman Jesse Benton, that’s the point. “Part of the reason we are going to college campuses is to register people. There are congressional districts we can win and we hope to register thousands of young people for the California primary.”
The deadline to register to vote for California’s June 5 presidential primary is May 21, and the campaign hopes the passionate young supporters they register will help Paul win a portion of the state’s 159 delegates –- which will be allocated based on the primary results in each of the 53 congressional districts.
The campaign is also focusing its efforts in Paul’s home state of Texas, which holds the second-largest number of delegates, scheduling six rallies at state universities.
Paul is also planning a statewide TV ad buy next week, six weeks ahead of the open primary on May 29.
Benton, who also resides in the Lone Star state, said Texans are “slow to embrace a moderate from Massachusetts and they want to vote for a Texan.”
“We are going to push real hard to let them know they have a strong, fiscal conservative Texan in the race.”
Benton said the campaign is adding staff in Texas and he will be heading up the state’s operation.
Looking even further down the calendar, Paul plans to speak at five state conventions in an effort to win over delegates to secure the minimum threshold needed to be nominated at the Republican National Convention in August.
“We don’t plan to get out of race until Dr. Paul is the nominee or someone else is the nominee,” Benton said. “The scores of people across the country want to vote for a constitutionalist, a real conservative, who can bring real change to the White House and they deserve to be heard.”
That said, Paul has won just 34 delegates so far, according to NBC's count. Mitt Romney has 490, Rick Santorum 203, and Newt Gingrich 137.
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Wait. Paul is still running?
Of course he is still running, it's just that the media blackout continues. 6,200 people were at the Ron Paul event in Chico. Rather than report on that, the MSM shows 100 people at a Flip Romney event. There were about 8,000 people at the UCLA event but again, no coverage... I am hoping for a brokered convention or a third party run. I cannot and will not vote for Romney. If I have to write in Ron Paul's name in the general election then so be it.
I'm not a real fan of Ron Paul or agree with everything hr stands for, but imo, he's the only true American candidate that wants to get America back on track.
My vote will go to either Ron Paul or Obama, but no way in hell will Romney or Sicktorum get my vote.
Tell me how Ron Paul has been able to serve his constituents while non-stop campaigning. He needed to resign before he started his romp!
So it would seem . I am sure the Paul Disciples will remind us soon .
I'm really disappointed that Romney was the nominee. I don't know if I can make myself vote for him. I do know I can't vote for Obama. Maybe Ron Paul is more of a contender than I had originally though.
You have to be pretty out of the loop to seriously ask that question.
That was seriously some humor from both of us .
Yeah, Carp, you would think that would be evident! ; )
Ron Paul is winning all the caucus state delegates! http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-denver/ron-paul-winning-delegates
It is a shame that you have to search for the real truth and that the media and GOP are trying so hard to keep out an honest man that is for the people see post #12.1
BTW RT news has a much more accurate delegate count than any media outlet in the US.
Ron Paul's in second in delegates.
The mainstream media distorts the numbers which are merely projected delegate totals, not factual. Moreover, he appeals very well to democrats, conservatives, tea party folks, progressives, Hispanics and African Americans and excels with libertarians, independents, young voters and active duty military.
He also has hands down the most passionate support.
He should win California and Texas. Look out establishment and corruption, here we come!
Yo have to search for honest journalism these days see my post #12.1 for some links. Unfortunately, every media outlet we have is owned by one of 7 companies (including bailout king, war profiteer, and big campaign donor GE) that all have the same agenda. search youtube on the news subject you seek and you will find many sources on the same subject and not all f them are biased. RT news is way better than anything se have here.
Actaually Hillery told us where to get "real news" when she was trying to get more money for propoganda news budget
Translation: The american people are starting wo wake up, many are no longer swallowing the BS news we are spoon feeding them.
Open your horizons and start reading the same story from different sources you will find truth. Example: it is really hard to find anything about Pakistan buying 50 CHINEESE fighter jets at 25 million each with the 2 billion a year in aid we give them but you can find it real easy in other sources.
Who the hell is Ron Paul? Wasn't he one of the Three Stooge's? Well, in this case, four?
"What ever happened to Ron Paul, remember him?" Paul didn't GO anywhere, his campaign has continued to experience the only legitimate ENTHUSIASM of the bunch. What ever happened to honest journalism, remember that??!
If Ron Paul does not disavow the rants and flagrant vilification of women with required medical procedures, then he does not deserve any woman' vote or re-election. The RNC's leadership has definitely lost contact and credibility in and exasperating attempt to garner attention. Every person on Social Security should tear up their TEA-GOP-Republican membership cards. Seniors have earned their retirement and these narrow-minded leaders should not receive any vote or re-election to office. The November election is a referendum on the gross incompetence and confrontational style of the TEA-GOP-Republican party's hold on the House.
Sorry - What?
Paul is the only one (D or R) with a fiscal plan that saves and secures Social Security and other entitlements. Paul would never mandate a "medical procedure".
Rudy doesn't get it he thinks Ron Paul is just another Republican and unfortunately, because he was pretty much forced to run as a Republican to get on the ballot without spending about 20 million, many others that are too lazy, blind or stupid to look past the party and at the individual make the same mistake. Never mind that the GOP makes no secret that they don't like Ron Paul.
There is plenty of corruption and thieves in both parties. Do your country a favor and start looking at the individual and not the party! People that blindly vote Republican or Democrat without a clue who they are really voting for are Idiots!!!!
what happened to RON PAUL???? seriously? LOL....the question really is ....WHY IS THE MEDIA SHUTTING HIM OUT. He draws thousands to his events, where the others draw a few hundred if lucky. Mainstream media is tightly controlled by a few elite. Give them all equal treatment and let the people decide.....they will pick Ron Paul. But we know th emedia picks the candidates for their bosses........
Ron Who?
He's the one that cares about protecting your liberties more than you do.
Go Ron Paul, bring'em home and stop policing the world.
So now Ron Paul only has 34 delegates? What happened to the rest of them, did they die or maybe they got taken by aliens? Is the media full of morons? Why can't they at least all get together and agree on what wrong number to report? The other campaigns hold rallies where they get 300 people, Paul gets 5000 but Paul's not going anywhere. Maybe if these dingbat reporters would lose the snark and start doing their jobs they might notice all the rigging going on. But no I guess living in fantasy land is easier. Just in case anybody wants a more accurate delegate count, try this: Romney 503, Paul 380, Santorum 208 and Gingrich 77. News flash, you win delegates in the conventions not in straw polls. Even "bound delegates" don't help if they happen to be supporters of somebody else. When nobody has 1144 on the first ballot all bets are off.
If you look at 5 different sources you will get 5 different delegate counts most have a disclaimer in small print at the bottom of the page explaining that they got the munbers by some formula they pulled out of their butts. They dont want to give Ron Paul any credit look at all the fraud agains him 8 counties in Iowa STILL not counted, several in maine not added to the popular vote. The truth is there are 296 delegates that are not bound and the Ron paul campagn beleive they have 165 of them.
Here is some info on the rigging in case you have not seen it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRtRTRJRDbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ivrynAFP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRonIz8F2Eo
these are from the same news station but if you look on youtube you can find others
The Paul campaign is going to pick up the pace now?
Best of luck to you guys. Seems to me that's like taking a college course, fooling around all semester and then trying to buckle down in the weeks before the final... Come to think of it, that's what a lot of college students do. Okay, now I get the campus strategy.
Ron Paul, a self-proclaimed racist. Wonder how many black votes he'd get in a presidential election?
someone needs to tell the ol kook that romney has won and he needs to give up, hes kind of like those old japenese soldiers hiding out 20 years after the emperor surrendered still thinking the war is still going on. Paul is a old man with old tired ideas that no one wants except a bunch of kooks and young people who don't know better.
An old man with tired old ideas that no one wants...except the young students that flock to his rallies. But you are right it's not like the youth is our future or anything. Dumbazz
PAUL DRAWS NEARLY 15,000 IN 2 DAYS WHILE IN CALIFORNIA....SO FAR.
It's sad Ron Paul has won many of the preliminaries yet the corrupt polls and world governments have blacked out anything positive about Paul's campaign. The Bilderbergs and the Illuminati have already put together our future and the voting proses is just a hokes to make people into believing they have a choice. i challenge not only the president, but Both groups mentioned to come clean and tell us the truth. It would be better for everyone to know the truth than being deceived time and time again. i am sorry to say but I believe this to be fact and not fiction. Call me crazy, but don't call me when the truth is finally exposed and you are saying I hope we don't get fooled again,
Gridreaper,
You are off on your "world government" statement. If you look at other world news sources they all love Ron Paul and can't believe the American people are are stupid enough to believe the complete BS our Mainstream media feeds us. Propaganda to justify the Iraq war is a good example of our stupidity. Hope we don't make the same mistake with Iran.
It seem to be the whole concept of "personal accountability" that we spoiled Americans do not like!!! Weird,,,,huh? Just waitin' for the day the govt will take the responsibility of paying my bills and buying groceries off my shoulders and give me a nice little govt' credit card to purchase all my fun new phones and big screen tv's. And all I have to do is hand over my paycheck and I will be taken care of completely!!! That's our society in a nutshell (or at least where we seem to be going). In fact why get a paycheck at all, the govt can just tell me where to be and when to be there, as they are really running the jobs in this country, right? Say bye bye to small businesses, I'm working for the govt now.
Sorry, ranting moment!!!!
Anthony Terrell is a moron.
If you like HR347, new and improved, NDAA, Spy Drones in America, endless Wireless-taps, Patriot, TSA, Corporate control, Illegal Invasions, Murdering citizens without trial, EO 13575, etc.:
then vote for ObamaMittRickNewt
Otherwise, vote for Freedom - vote for Ron Paul 2012!
Sounds like the sleeping beast awakes from the slumber !!!
Just hope the voters out there realize they can still make a difference - and not vote for Romney in some knee jerk fashion.
What if he's not on the ballot?