Look at the thread title. 96% of Americans reject Ron Paul. So if 100% of Americans (all 300+ mill voted) and only 4% of them approved of Ron Paul how does that make it 96%??? What about those that say support Obama for example and that number is 35% of ALL Americans are you still left with 96% still rejecting Ron Paul? Wait a minute...you two must have had the same math teacher.
I see this on the RP Forums all the time. Like 9/11 troofers, they really do believe that they have the ability to see things the "average" American cannot see. Explains a lot.
It will hurt him in the primaries, but if he makes it in the general election he will face Hillary -- who is vehemently opposed to the second amendment. When it becomes a question of "the lesser of two evils", reasonable people make reasonable choices.
I did not see the actual questions that are given in the polls, if it is "Which candidate do you reject", then the OP is right to say that 96% of Americans reject Ron Paul, if it is who you support, then the thread title is IMHO a bit too presumptuous.
The OP posted, and referred to, a poll. You know, the same type of poll that you RP freaks have been using to support your loony candidate.
Like Iraq on a map? http://archives.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography.quiz/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_aPGI5dUeo It gets worst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVuEpD9_IY&NR=1
you are exactly right...the fact that RP still thinks he can win (as do his loyal brainwashed followers) with only 4% of the vote is a joke.
He's already won. No one has talked about monetary policy since Steve Forbes, and no one has got on national TV and talked about abolishing the FED. We actually have a presidential candidate talking about the Constitution, a non-interventionist foreign policy, a conservative who is reminding all of the Reagan wannabes that The Great Communicator ran on a platform of abolishing the Department of Education. Someone who stands up for the Republicans of 2000, and reminds us that Bush won with the same foreign policy, and that Republicans were totally opposed to Clinton's global agenda of nation building. There is no other candidate with 20+ individuals running under his name and platform for Congress. And no other candidate is driving up GOP membership while harnessing the internet the way the Democrats have. In many ways, it has already been a victory. Long after people have forgotten about other candidates the way they have forgotten about Pat Robertson or Bob Dole, they'll still remember Ron Paul, and in this regard, he's been a fantastic success. Hey, we're not even through 3% of the delegates so far. I don't think anyone is confident enough to lay down all of their earnings on who the GOP nominee will be.
No, you don't get it. And no matter how I try to explain it to you, you probably or willfully will not. Goldwater ran and lost in 1964. But he created a conservative revolution. Paul is doing the same thing. He's the only candidate running who doesn't define victory as winning the general election, and everything else as a loss. Well, maybe Tom Tancredo too, with his push for the immigration issue.
oh...I get it. RP is a racist nutjob whos supporters probably don't really know what is going on in the world due to all the conspiracy theories.