pittsburghlive.com — Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in Minneapolis for a "mini-convention" that could steal some of John McCain's thunder just days before he accepts the Republican nomination.
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elnerdoJun 11, 2008
Cerebral, the idea isn't actually to focus on one party. You said yourself: "This election can and will (at least should) be decided by the swing voters and people that never vote. "The libertarians ARE the swing vote. If Obama wins and if Ron Paul gets a large amount of write-ins (or if the libertarian party gets a large margin), both parties will see that Libertarian policies are appealing to a large demographic. In order to get those votes, those parties will need to nominate libertarian-leaning candidates, and use a libertarian-leaning platform. And 'most people' isn't the issue. In the election of 2000, if just 0.5% of the republican vote voted for the Libertarian party instead (A plausible proportion), then the democrats would have won, and the Republicans would see that they lost because they lost 0.5% of their vote to the libertarian party.
toker200Jun 11, 2008
cant be bothered to use punctuation its not like you stop reading a sentence at the period get over it
qh4dotcomJun 11, 2008
So do I...here's my desktop wallpaper<a class="user" href="http://www.qh4.com/ronpauldollar.html">http://www.qh4.com/ronpauldollar.html</a>
duffehJun 11, 2008
Libertarian/republican de-regulation is sure to fix those price gouging corporate juggernauts.... oh wait.Retards.
bioslaveJun 11, 2008
"Paul's plan to stage his own event is bad news for McCain, said G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College."Conventions are about demonstrating unity and purpose and showcasing the nominee. They are media events made for prime-time TV. Any distraction from the central message of the convention is not helpful," Madonna said."Terry Madonna is an idiot. Conventions have been around long before the "media" he speaks of. Conventions are about delegates getting together and working out their differences, then choosing a candidate. The convention is not some self-annointment ceremony for the next "New World Order" crony.
nydwarfJun 12, 2008
I'm pretty sure this is going to make the price of Tinfoil skyrocket!
jashobeam5Jun 12, 2008
Few founding fathers were athiests. You really need to read history, not athiest/ACLU propaganda.
teichenauerJun 22, 2008
I'll just say that when I went to the Arizona Republican delegate elections in May that if I were on McCain's staff I would be investing in wheelchair equipped vans for GOTV efforts. All in all those presidential campaigns which are strongly supported by the under-60 crowd will do well (and more cost effectively).<a class="user" href="http://OneDollarGas.tk/">http://OneDollarGas.tk/</a>