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ok......

Freedomfighter — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:25:06 -0400

so why does tech prez have him listed in the right column with the other facebook myspace supporter links ?

Wish I went

Luigi Montanez — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:15:16 -0400

Seeing this meeting of the minds in person would have been AWESOME.

He may not win the nomination

jchristophm — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:47:54 -0400

"... and as the only candidate for his party’s nomination who has actually won a significant election, will likely be the Libertarian candidate this fall."

First, Mike Gravel is also seeking the LP nomination. It may have been like a billion years ago, but he did win a couple of Senate races.

Second, you obviously don't hang around with many Libertarians. Win/loss records, ability to raise funds, and national prominence have historically been only VERY small factors in LP nominating races. Trust me, the LP is worse than the Democrats with respect to factional in-fighting. Like academics, third-party politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Email issue

Luigi Montanez — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:30:01 -0400

This issue has now been clarified for me by Terra Eclipse, and the correction is posted above.

Email came from Barr campaign's service

Luigi Montanez — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:29 -0400

The email didn't come from a simple tell-a-friend form -- it came from a pay-to-send email marketing service. As you'll see in the Reply-To and Mailed By fields, the email originated from cmpgnr.com, which is the domain the email marketing service Campaigner.com uses. All other Bob Barr emails have also come from this service. This makes sense, as the Ron Paul campaign used the more premium, high volume service (CampaignerPro), and both campaigns have the same technology consultants.

So it may be a case of someone messing up and putting an @ronpaul2008.com email address in a Bob Barr blast. But, (and this is a big but), if it were a regular Bob Barr email blast, why the need to put "A Message from former Congressman Bob Barr" in the subject line? Presumably if I'm on Barr's list (which I was at the time), I know who the guy is. Repeating the sender's name in the subject line is standard practice when sending an email to an audience that will be unfamiliar with the sender.

The Ron Paul e-mail

Tom Readmond — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:36:05 -0400

The e-mail on behalf of Barr may not be legit. I had this happen on a campaign earlier this year, when an e-mail from ron@ronpaul2008.com went out claiming to endorse our candidate. Finding this hard to believe, I contacted a friend in the Paul campaign, and after some digging with the IT folks, it turned out someone had used the campaign website's Tell A Friend function to send an e-mail, and had entered the Ron Paul address as their own. In the end, it didn't have much effect. Paul's supporters aren't dumb.

Yes ~ Ron is the 2008 Ross!

4Yahshua — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:50:49 -0500

Greetings! Just want y'all to know that I really believe this especially after watching him on Glen Beck on 1-1-2008. The man does not believe in any U.S. Government complicity in the events of 9/11!!! Wake up bloggers!! Don't you watch T.V.? Sadly, the man seems to be another "shill" for the Bush Sr. White House!
Seek the Mighty One Upstairs!

TREES ~ YES BUSHES? NO!!!!!!!!!
"For 26 years we have had a Bush Sr. White House! How can we get back OUR House??"

Paul and Dean aren't that similar

Zephyr Teachout — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:09:38 -0500

I don't think Dean and Paul are that similar at all, actually.

Dean, at core, is a pragmatist who believed in self-government, and he appealed to people with those traits. Paul--although I'm still figuring him out--seems to start from first principles and believe in little government. They are polar opposites in temperament.

The only similarities I see are the use of Meetups (but, as Paul supporters have pointed out, that was a completely supporter-driven tactic), high numbers of online fundraising, and an opposition to a central orthodoxy in the party regarding the Iraq war.

That's not a very deep set of comparisons, and if the internet wasn't around, I don't think the comparisons would be there. The orange caps, as you'll recall, was a campaign (top down) invention. The Georgia for Dean and its ilk press releases were always more muted than the DFA official press releases.

Dean/Paul Movement Comparisons Are Fascinating

Luigi Montanez — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:33:56 -0500

The similarities: Overwhelmingly white, college-educated, and well-off financially. But the Paul movement seems to be younger (the Dean movement was much older than portrayed by the media) and much more tech savvy than Deaniacs.

But it all comes down to the primaries. How does the Paul movement actually become a political campaign that converts money and energy into votes? If Iowans thought Deaniacs in orange caps were a put-off, what will they think of brash, "REVOLUTION" t-shirted Paul supporters? How exactly does the Paul campaign plan to harness their activist energy?

Assuming Paul loses in the primaries, what happens to his movement afterwards? Does it stick together a la DFA, or like libertarians are apt to do, break apart? Will we be seeing Chairman Ron Paul installed into the RNC after a Democratic landslide and President Hillary in 2008? Completely fascinating to think about.

FYI, here's the RonPaulGraph for total donors:

http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/total_donors.html

72,000 for just this quarter, but I don't know if that's really a count of total donations or unique donors.