Ron Paul & Mitt Romney Leading in Iowa

Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are trading the lead poll position in Iowa’s upcoming caucus, depending on which poll you look at it or depending on the day, it’s going to come down to the wire!

“After months of volatility, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul remain the front-runners in Iowa for the third week in a row with the state’s Republican caucus just five days away.”

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Huckabee, Paul and the Iowa Caucus Results

I’ve listed the Iowa results below, but here are my thoughts on the first caucus. Paul made a good showing and finished basically in 4th place in Iowa, with McCain and Thompson tied for 3rd, and Giuliani barely even placed with 3% of the Iowa vote.

Paul’s 10% is a great finish for many reasons. One, he was excluded from the upcoming Fox News debate because of supposed low polling numbers nationwide, but Giuliani was invited while only receiving 3% of the Iowa vote. This just confirms again that Fox is favoring the neocon GOP candidates, and that Paul has a stronger percentage of the GOP vote than the media and pollsters are reporting. Most pollsters had Paul between 3% and 6% in Iowa. CNN today failed to list Paul’s name next to his 10% section on a pie chart showing the GOP vote percentages, while listing the other candidates names. Make no mistake about this, Ron Paul’s support was vastly underreported and downplayed by the media.

Iowa, Get Out and VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!!

Today is the big day for the Iowa caucus! Find out where to vote here.

Many are predicting a strong showing for Ron Paul today, but we have to make it happen.

Come on people we can win this thing! Let’s get Ron Paul a top three finish in Iowa and give everyone something to talk about today (and make Fox News eat their words) . For some extra inspiration — not that you should need it — here are a couple of nice Ron Paul clips from yesterday:

When asked by Wolf about Fox News excluding him from the Sunday debate Paul responded, “. . . We’ve called and called and called and we’ve never received the invitation. . . It’ll be interesting to see what would happen if we do well tomorrow and they allow somebody into that forum that I might be able to beat tomorrow, so I think they’ve sort of put themselves into a box.”

Emergency Call To Help Ron Paul VoteWatch

With the exclusion of Ron Paul from the Fox News Forum to be held two days before the New Hampshire primary, there is little question that groups are and will be using some fraudulent tactics attempting to alter the COUNT of the Ron Paul vote. Voter fraud in Iowa and New Hampshire is pretty much guaranteed.

Why is voter fraud nearly guaranteed? Questionable reliability of voting machines, questionable ballot security, and the voter fraud that blatantly occurred during the straw polls and during previous elections. There is a real threat of the final vote counts being manipulated at some level.

Watch the Vote 2008.com is asking for people to volunteer in Iowa and New Hampshire to help ensure accurate, legitimate vote counts. Follow this link to SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER TO WATCH THE VOTE.

Volunteers can also help the VoteWatch by double-checking the vote counts from your home computer. Sign up at Vote Watch 2008.com.

More information about what the volunteers are being asked to do can be found here. Read the following excerpt about why the vote watch is needed in Iowa:

The danger is that the results called in by the local people will be falsified at the state level. This is what happened in the 1996 Iowa Presidential Caucuses, on February 12, 1996 . The local Iowans conducted themselves with integrity and honor: they did their job. They voted by paper ballot, and immediately counted the results in front of everyone present in each precinct. The leader then accurately called the votes into the state level operatives. THIS IS WHERE THE DANGER OF VOTE FRAUD IS IN THE IOWA CAUCUSES.

The state GOP headquarters of Iowa designated Voter News Service of New York City to take the phone calls from the local county and precincts leaders at the Iowa Caucus that year. This whole event is recounted in the article, A House Without Doors, available online.

Voter News Service is a corporation then owned jointly by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and AP wire. (FOX did not exist in 1996, but became part of the cabal in 1998.) Voter News Service, based in New York City , then simply falsified the results and sent them out over AP wire. The major media published the false results from AP wire, which “results” have stood to this day. A team in Dubuque , Iowa proved via eyewitnesses that Voter News Service stole 13% of Presidential Patrick Buchanan’s vote in Dubuque County alone. (870 Buchanan votes were reduced by Voter News Service to 757 votes.)

The idea in 2008 is for citizen correspondents to watch all 99 counties in Iowa , instead of just the one county of Dubuque County, Iowa .

Finally! Ron Paul Gets Fair Mainstream Media Coverage

Well, maybe not 100% fair coverage, but it’s about as close as Dr. Paul has gotten yet. Here is a great ten minute interview with Ron Paul on MSNBC.

Ron Paul Highlights from the Iowa Debate

The Only “True Grassroots” Campaign

Drew Ivers, the Iowa Chairman of the Ron Paul Campaign, speaks about the strength of the Ron Paul Revolution calling it the only “true grassroots” campaign he’s ever witnessed during his many years of political campaigning. This speech was given after the recent CNN/YouTube GOP debates. He concludes by saying “we have 30 days. . . work your hearts out. . .”

Ivers notes that both Romney and Huckabee have likely “peaked too early” in the Iowa polls, which is setting up Paul perfectly to make a strong finish. Learn more about Ron Paul’s Iowa campaign here.

“The Kids Are All Right”

From Lew Rockwell:
Ron Paul’s Appeal to the Youth by Anthony Gregory

Ron Paul has managed to do what no libertarian organization or electoral candidate ever has: Energize the masses of young Americans, all throughout the nation’s college campuses, including its most leftist, and get them interested in the politics of freedom and peace.

New Hampshire Sets Presidential Primary Date

New Hampshire has set January 8th as its date for the presidential primary vote. This puts it second chronologically behind Iowa’s nominating vote that will be held on January 3rd, but before Michigan’s vote on January 15th.

Ron Paul supporters were hoping for a primary election kick-off in New Hampshire where Paul has stronger support and a better likelihood of winning and building momentum.

Ron Paul’s Support Triples in Iowa

The recent Washington Post-ABC News Poll shows that Ron Paul has tripled his support since being at 2% in July, is now up to 6% in Iowa among GOP candidates, now tied with John McCain.

Full Story. . .

Ron Paul Support Around the Country

These days there is so much positive Ron Paul news around the country that it is hard to keep up with it all. Here are just a handful of articles that have come out in the past few days. I’ve picked out some key paragraphs from these articles for those who just want to skim them, otherwise the original links are included also:

Ron Paul: 1st or 2nd in Iowa?

From the Iowa Independant

. . . State field director Steve Meyer is predicting a second or even first place finish in Iowa and a New Hampshire win. “You’re going o see Democrats go to the caucus, you’re going to see independents register as Republicans and go to the caucus. Look at the donations. We raised $4.2 million in one day and that all came from individuals. $20 here, $100 there and no other campaign is doing that.”

New Jersey legislator speaks out on why he endorsed Ron Paul

From USA Daily

I believe that members of our military recognize that our forces are not unlimited, and that the current policy of deployment in 130 different countries is not a sound military policy to provide an adequate defense to our country. I have three sons serving in the military, and I know that each joined to protect the United States, not to serve as a police force to prop up a foreign government. Ron Paul embraces the position that you do not deploy the military without a declaration of war as the Constitution requires. I strongly agree with that position.

Ron Paul Support in New York

From New York Press

“Either they’re going to be apathetic or they’re going to get on the Ron Paul train,” Knapp says.

“Word of mouth is key,” Knapp says. “Every Ron Paul supporter tells more people about it—it’s not like they keep it a secret.”

Across the country and even the world, 1,083 Ron Paul MeetUp groups have formed, more than for any other presidential candidate, of either party. The largest is in Austin, Texas, not far from the coastal district Paul calls home. With 775 members at last count, New York City’s ranks second.

Ron Paul, M.D. Speaks on Health Care

From the Dartmouth Review

. . . Paul began his remarks by telling students that, “the medical system is going well except for a few groups: the patients, the doctors, the hospitals, the labs, and the politicians. Everybody else is happy.”

. . . Paul noted that because of all these governmental programs “charity work doesn’t seem to exist anymore; yet there was a time when there was substantial charity work….We’ve gotten this way because the government put us this way.”

The Meaning Of Ron Paul’s Support

From TheDay.com, Connecticut

First, consider that Paul’s average donation on Nov. 5 was $103, more than twice as high as his average donation, and that the “money bomb” event was organized independently from his campaign. Paul’s supporters are individuals. They are not the weapons industry, corporations, special-interest groups, or anyone else seeking favor or privilege.

Paul’s supporters want honesty, openness, fairness, equality, prosperity and peace, not to mention our inalienable individual rights back. And they want America to stop meddling in the affairs of other peoples. This a bottom-up, grass-roots movement. And, it is coming on like gangbusters, a fact that concerns those who love power and authority.