http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/15/poll-ron-paul-claims-frontrunner-status-soaring-past-gingrich-romney/


A surprising new poll out of Bloomberg News on Tuesday morning found that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is not the only Republican to benefit from the seeming demise of other prior frontrunners.

Beating all the odds and the pundits’ expectations, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has emerged as one of the new frontrunners in the crucial Iowa primary for the GOP nomination to the presidency, topping even Gingrich and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and virtually tying former businessman Herman Cain for the lead.

All surveys counted, Bloomberg News found that Paul has the support of 19 percent of the state’s GOP primary voters, versus Cain’s 20, Romney’s 18 and Gingrich’s 17.


It’s just the latest in a string of small victories for Paul, who won a Calif. straw poll in Sept., an Ohio straw poll in Oct. and an Illinois straw poll earlier this month. He also dominated a CBS News viewer survey this week, which asked who won the last GOP debate and who should win the nomination. Paul topped all the other candidates by tens of thousands of votes, even though he was only given 89 seconds during the entire debate to speak.

The four-way tie moving forward will present an interesting challenge to conservative media, which seems to have been content ignoring Paul as much as possible. Even in the instances where he’s won or placed highly in typically influential Republican polls, his victories have been swept under the rug as pundits continued to focus on candidates thought to be more favored by Republicans.

He’s since become regarded in much mainstream press as something of a “gadfly,” and not likely a serious contender. “If I were Romney and Perry, I would be thinking of a way to get Ron Paul off the stage because he is a distraction,” Bradley Blakeman, a Republican strategist and former Bush staffer, explained to Fox Business in Sept., articulating party insiders’ prevailing opinions of Paul.

Those opinions would now appear to be irrelevant, but it’s still unclear if the latest poll results will earn Paul any additional headway with members of the press.

A separate poll published Monday by survey group Public Policy Polling found Paul at just 5 percent support, with Gingrich leading the pack at 28 percent.

Earlier polling by Selzer & Co., which conducted Tuesday’s Bloomberg poll, found that Paul had solidly claimed third place by mid-Oct. with 12 percent support, trailing Romney at 22 and Cain at 23.

which of course does not guaranty Paul a shot at the Presidency,if past experience is an indicator!

Unfortunately, it will most likely be ignored by the press again. You can't have total control over the populace if someone like RP gets nominated and wins. But I do love how each of the other candidates gets labeled "the golden child" and then has a scandal brought from their past.

RP FTW

Absolutely!

Looks like he gots some press from the Washington Post:


Ron Paul : Can he pull off an upset in Iowa?

By Nia-Malika Henderson


Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has so far been the Rodney Dangerfield of the GOP presidential field — he got exactly 89 seconds of speaking time in the last debate.

 Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who has built a loyal following among libertarians, is running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.



So, while he is rightly considered a proto-tea party figure, laying down libertarian, anti-government approaches to major issues long before there was a tea party, he still gets no respect.

(As Paul says in a recent ad, he’s been talking about these problems for a long, long time.)

But a new Bloomberg News Iowa poll, showing the Texas lawmaker in second place behind Herman Cain, suggests that this might be Paul’s moment, at least in Iowa.

On Wednesday morning, Paul delivered a keynote speech to the Cato Institute’s annual monetary conference called “Monetary Reform in the Wake of Crisis” in Washington. He bashed not only the Fed but the congressional supercommittee’s task of reducing the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next ten years.

“The biggest thing we face financially is this huge debt, it’s not a lack of revenue,” Paul said at the speech. “And if we ever got serious, we would have to cut spending.”

Paul’s fingerprints have been all over the policies that have been outlined by his rivals, including Rick Perry, whose tough talk about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was of a piece with Paul’s longstanding call for eliminating the Fed — his push to audit the Fed is now Republican Party orthodoxy.

Paul’s close second-place finish behind Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) in the Ames Straw poll and his string of victories in other smaller contests speak to the powerful and passionate base he has managed to organize and maintain.

The Bloomberg poll, based on a survey of 503 likely Republican caucus-goers, shows that the most critical issues to GOP voters are government spending, reducing debt and the economy — strong issues for Paul — while hot-button social issues like gay marriage and abortion rights are viewed as less critically important.

But Paul, who attracts legions of young, loud, and tech-savvy supporters, has another key edge in Iowa, where a ground strategy is critical to winning the caucuses: 67 percent of respondents have had some contact with the Paul campaign, according to the poll, while by comparison, only 29 percent have had some contact with the Newt Gingrich campaign.

While Gingrich, Cain, and Mitt Romney, who are in a four-way race with Paul in Iowa, all get more air time in debates, Paul might be on his way to building a slow, steady lead in the Hawkeye State. Could that lead to an upset victory?

“In Iowa, it looks like we are one of the few campaigns with a real serious organization,” said Gary Howard, national press secretary for the Paul campaign. “We have good fundraising all over the place.”

The campaign has about ten paid staffers throughout the state and a slew of volunteers who have been knocking on doors and making phone calls.

In the coming weeks, the campaign will likely go on the airwaves with a new ad, Howard said, and will double down on their flood-the-zone strategy.

“We have to do something to counter the lack of airtime in debates,” Howard said. “He does need to get more time in these debates, but reaching out on the ground is more important.”

Run Ron Run!

Obama FTW

W00T!!! Ron Paul FTW!!!

The only two front runners are Gingrich and Romney, nice try.

But a new Bloomberg News Iowa poll, showing the Texas lawmaker in second place behind Herman Cain, suggests that this might be Paul’s moment, at least in Iowa.

The only thing Paul will win is an election for the National Clown. He will never get close to the White House, even as a tour guide!

And I thought the democrats were naive and rather pathetic in believing their own propaganda and mis/disinformation.

Consider the source hboy, no sense in wasting your time arguing with dead gray matter

http://www.usnews.com/polls/who-is-your-pick-for-the-gop-2012-nomination/results.html

Ya gotta wonder which polls to believe... I like this one

Lessee..........last month you talked about Romney flip-flopping, so just who do you stand with? Or do you flip-flop as poll results come in?

Everyone Should Have a Chance

At what??

Wrong again, this is what you are being fed by MM.

He's voting to re-elect Shrub

Let's see.....

He's for torture
Against Freedom
For the FED
Wants to nuke Iran
Thinks OWS and peoples rights are over rated
Believes Faux News is real news.....

Yep, he's still voting for Shrub!

Shrub/Cheesey 2012 (I can read the bumper sticker from here!)