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- S1ngular1ty1, on 10/23/2007, -4/+26It was hilarious when they interviewed Ron Paul. Ron Paul pointed out he was winning in Fox's poll and then Hannity started to say that Ron Paul somehow rigged the poll and Paul called him on it. Ron Paul asked Hannity something like "So you are telling me your own poll is useless?" Of course then Hannity back peddled.
- flashcat7777, on 10/23/2007, -3/+24"If you are a true small-government conservative, you HAVE to be anti-war."
- smbarnes72, on 10/23/2007, -4/+24Hannity kept butting in that the deck was stacked when Colmes reported Ron Paul was in 1st place. What? Only Ron Paul supporters have cell phones or don't text message? Then again, maybe the other candidates supporters just aren't there...
- jetboy790, on 10/22/2007, -3/+15text R5 to FNCTV (36288)
- zaffa, on 10/23/2007, -3/+15Hillarious. I plan to watch it online as soon as it is uploaded in about 5 minitues or so.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -4/+15text R5 to 36288 to vote for Ron Paul
- flygirl62, on 10/22/2007, -2/+13That doesn't mean that he lost the debate. It just means that the people *in the audience* believe that he lost the debate. Who won or lost is a matter of opinion and completely meaningless... the correct phrase would be that "so and so won/lost the debate according to such and such."
I'd agree that Paul probably didn't win with the people in the audience, but he seems to be winning with the people voting with cellphones. - xerigen, on 10/23/2007, -0/+9It was longer than 5 minutes but here you are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXLf_w_0fs
It's near the end, at about 4:30 - xerigen, on 10/23/2007, -2/+11That debate was ridiculous. I want to hear about real issues, not what Thompson has to think about Romney and what McCain has to think about Giuliani. Once again, the "big name" candidates got much more attention than Paul, Hunter, Tancredo, etc.
- jcarrion1976, on 10/23/2007, -0/+9Hannity -"You've got all the Ron Paul supporter's attacking me."
Ron Paul - "That's great."
Haha. Love it. - booyaman1, on 10/22/2007, -3/+11I love it how they try to spin self-organized voters all remembering to watch the debate and cast their vote as "stacking," just because none of the other candidates can inspire the same kind of passion, dedication, and independent organization and motivation among their supporters, and certainly not anywhere near the numbers that Paul has. How is this spamming? Isn't that what a campaign is all about - organizing your support for your run at the Presidency? Just because Paul's supporters do it on their own doesn't make it "spamming" or "stacking the vote".
Go Ron Paul!! He smacked it out of the park with his answers to the Health-care question and the one towards the end about how the Republican party has drifted away from it's roots. - booyaman1, on 10/22/2007, -1/+8How?
- freecon, on 10/23/2007, -3/+10Once again the Fox favorite Rudy gets all the time. Hannity is hosting fundraisers for him. Is Hannity suggesting that Rudy-bots don't have cell phones. I tried to vote twice to test the system and I got a message back that I had already voted. I would like to see a graded debate rather than what Fox tries to sell us as a "debate". Equal Time Dammit!
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -4/+10Here's a Kleenex.
- guydudeman, on 10/22/2007, -1/+7It's not spam if you legitimately agreed with what Ron Paul said more than what the other candidates said.
- Quick2822, on 10/23/2007, -3/+9Either 2 things happened, out of all the debate viewers who were undecided, more than 1/3 thought that Ron Paul won, or simply 1/3 of the viewers who watched were already Ron Paul supporters. So if we had some way of getting a Nielsen stat of how many people watched it tonight. 1/3 of whatever number it would be I imagine would be pretty big.
Unlike an online text poll that is open for several days and has time to hit all the major Ron Paul forums, these text polls are only open for 2 or so hours. So people either must actively following the debate or actively trying to follow up on the debate within that small timeframe.
So, while these online polls showing Ron Paul as a winner really mean nothing, these text-based polls DO mean something and show a lot of support for Ron Paul. 38% is huge, and either way you look at it, it indicates support for Ron Paul.
Plus, Ron Paul handled Hannity great at the end. - S1ngular1ty1, on 10/22/2007, -0/+5How the electoral college works.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/electoral-college.htm - S1ngular1ty1, on 10/23/2007, -0/+5I agree.
- nichoulas, on 10/23/2007, -3/+8Hannity complained about Ron Paul supporters stacking the vote? How about Fox News stacking the time giving to Romney, Giuliani, and Thompson?
- booyaman1, on 10/23/2007, -3/+8Who's to say they didn't watch it on youtube or read the transcript on fnc's website when they saw that post? Once again, this doesn't constitute "spamming", Really, it's time to give up on that lame-ass attempt to discredit the man's obvious support base. If you don't like him and don't like the support he is generating, then start debating the issues and his platform with people. Of course, the reasoning and logic behind most of his positions is both sound and valid, so maybe that's why all these fallacious attempts to downplay his support come in..............hmmmmm.
- zaffa, on 10/22/2007, -2/+6Only problem with that theory was that Giulianni was never booed during his speaking. I may be as big a Paul supporter as the next guy, but let's not degrade our stance with rediculous rumours.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -4/+8I wonder if they put a split screen with Ghouliani next to Paul to the crowd like they did before. Just at the right time to get the boos they wanted.
- tmak73, on 10/22/2007, -0/+4well said, i was hoping someone would say this as I was reading his comment... the response of the audience to his remark about pulling out of the war does not mean he lost the debate.
- flygirl62, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3I agreed with you right up to the point where you made it sound like a generalization of all women. Not a very good way to get women on your side.
- brianewart, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3No. He'll win ALL of the conservatives. People who support this war are not conservatives.
BESIDES... we are no longer in a state of war. This is not a war, it is an occupation. We are basically running two governments with one set of taxpayers -- you! Since when did conservatives support going billions of dollars into debt for something so frivolous? - conceptkid, on 10/23/2007, -2/+5Looks like to me, you were busy spamming away on digg rather than watching the debates, jackass.
- brianewart, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3You DO realize that there is nothing conservative about the Neocons, right?
- booyaman1, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3And that somehow discredits those people's opinion on the matter? I mean, after all, it is a public opinion poll. So, in your mind Ron Paul supporters just don't count, or there "rabid" passionate support for Paul makes them unfit to vote as American citizens? Wow, what a wonderful position jcm! A true patriot you are!
- BookImDanno, on 10/23/2007, -4/+6Conservative response to Ron Paul = BOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don't fret though. He can always run as the libertarian that he really is. - bamapachyderm, on 10/23/2007, -1/+3Now the cows are booing! haha
- S1ngular1ty1, on 10/26/2007, -2/+4I'm sorry, but I'm not going to trust Hillary with running the USA. You want to break a country fast, put a woman in charge of it. To quote Hillary, "I have a million ideas but America can't afford them." Enough said.
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -4/+5OK. So I guess Huckabee won the debate. I thought Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, and McCain all did well.
- inactive, on 10/23/2007, -4/+5You should've said "Moooooooooooo", a reference to the Bill Maher confrontation.
- booyaman1, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1Who won the debate is a matter of opinion, is it not? I watched the debate, and I definitely think Ron Paul won, despite the limited time he was given to speak. His answers cut straight to the heart of the issues, instead of dancing around them with broad generalized answers like the other candidates. Sure, I already supported Paul going into the debate, but I listened to what the other candidates had to say, and I still don't believe a word that most of them say. And the ones I do believe, like Huckabee, I totally disagree with their positions, and they failed to provide any logic or reasoning to sway me to their point of view. So, yes, in my opinion, Ron Paul did indeed win the debate. Apparently, a majority of the other folks who voted think he did as well. And once again, given that the poll was only open for 2 hours late on a Sunday evening, I think it's safe to say that the majority of the folks who voted in the poll either watched the debate or were keeping tabs on it on the web, so I really don't see how anyone could have "spammed" the poll in such a way as to drastically influence the results.
- ThePantsParty, on 10/23/2007, -2/+3pacifying the middle east by bombing the ***** out of it??? I 'pacify' my children by hitting them with a crowbar then....that's about the purest neo-con philosophy you could ever put in writing. We PACIFIED the middle east for decades and got 9/11 out of it...do some research
- mcsenget, on 10/23/2007, -1/+2Hannity is a bitch, that's why.
- ZWarren69, on 10/29/2007, -2/+3He posted this early, it take it.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -3/+3What rumor?
They did it before, they can do it again. - bamapachyderm, on 10/23/2007, -4/+4The booing for RP was like the booing for Hillary! LOL!
- Proctor, on 10/29/2007, -6/+6This is false! Ron Paul won at 34%
- S1ngular1ty1, on 10/22/2007, -9/+9Don't poll spam.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 10/22/2007, -3/+3Your Vote != Electoral College vote. The sooner you people realize this the sooner you will understand why Ron Paul will not win the Republican nomination or be elected president based on straw polls and Fox News polls.
P.S. I am a Ron Paul supporter. - Magillicutti, on 10/22/2007, -1/+1I doubt it. I recently moved down here. The debate was all of a few miles from my place and at least 4/5 people I've met around Orlando are either ignorant or just a douchebag.. so it's not surprising to me. Like Ron said after the debate, if he had more seats the audience reactions might have been different. But I mean, all Ron Paul did was state a fact that every form of old media has been saying for a while, that 70-something percent of Americans ARE sick and tired of this war and want the troops to come home. Somebody with a mic booed and then most of the audience did, when all he was doing was stating the result of national polling. They might as well have been booing at the 70-whatever percent of us that want our family members and friends home.
- surilamin, on 10/23/2007, -2/+2Paul simply has a very dedicated 'fan base,' let's be realistic here, he is not going to win your average conservative because he doesn't support the war.
- inactive, on 10/22/2007, -4/+3Because they are the only people rabid enough to care this much about post-debate text messaging polls.
Judging by the poll results, I'd say Huckabee won. - S1ngular1ty1, on 10/22/2007, -2/+1By just voting for Ron Paul whether he won the debate or not.
- fadeout, on 10/23/2007, -9/+5Ghee, he won the poll his supporters were spamming for? ie: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Text_R5_to_36288 ...
Hey, here's a novel idea.. if you didn't actually watch a debate, don't vote in its poll! - BookImDanno, on 10/23/2007, -6/+2Not exactly. Ron Paul isn't in any way a credible candidate. Hillary is, and there is a bundle being spent to put her in place.
I cannot figure out why the push is on for Ron. Who does it help? Not Ron ... - bamapachyderm, on 10/22/2007, -12/+8BOOOOOOOO!!!
- BookImDanno, on 10/23/2007, -8/+2Ron Paul is good too?!?! Which Ron Paul are you referring to? Certainly not the one who recieved the BOOOO's in the debate.
Huckabee showed the most improvement. I didn't watch the entire debate so I cannot say he won. -
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