Liberty Maven has been running an interesting series of analyzes on the presidential candidates to see how they rate compared to Ron Paul (Methodology here). While you can quibble with a point or two here or there, the overall trend suggested by the scores seems reasonable enough.
The tally (out of 99) is:
Barack Obama 17
John [...]

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That’s the premise of a memo (with included fund raising pitch) sent to me. The email was sent with the subject “Of Interest to Friends of Ron Paul.”
Is 19 percent in the general election really possible? A recent Rasmussen poll of a hypothetical 4-way race between Obama(42%), McCain (38%), Bob Barr (6%) and [...]

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last week I was in Reno, Nevada attending the “Conservative Leadership Conference” where Ron Paul finished first in the straw poll. Being in Reno reminded me of Ron Paul’s position in favor of ending the prohibition on internet gambling.
In this video clip, Ron Paul introduces Reason editor Radley Balko, who speaks in favor of [...]

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In the Agora provides some evidence that traditional polling leaves out younger voters (who are likely Paul supporters):
This Pew Research Center survey is perhaps the most comprehensive to date in working to determine what impact this has on polling data. The Pew survey found that cell-phone-only Americans are disproportionately younger, less affluent, less likely to [...]

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The new Zogby poll has Ron Paul up again in New Hampshire (Home of the best license plate slogan around: “Live Free or Die”).
One item of note is that the poll was conducted on May 15th and 16th. That means that it doesn’t fully reflect the increased exposure that Ron Paul has gotten since [...]

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