Ron Paul Yo–uth outreach, yes Voters.

by Staff March 11, 2012 8 Comments Misc.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a Texas congressman, lost all ten elections on Super Tuesday. Although Ron Paul had predicted that he might win in Idaho, North Dakota and Alaska, the best the former Air Force surgeon could do on Super Tuesday was a second place finish in the Peace Garden State. Lauren Fox, writing for U.S. News & World Report, suggests that Ron Paul failed to win on Super Tuesday because his yo—uth voters stayed home.

“It is no wonder GOP Ron Paul walked away from Super Tuesday without winning a single state. It appears his droves of yo–uth supporters stayed home,” Ms. Fox wrote Wednesday.

Ron Paul’s inability to win the youth vote on Super Tuesday has many political pundits scratching their heads as the Texas congressman won the yo–uth vote in multiple states prior to the race’s biggest night. In fact, Ron Paul won the yo–uth vote in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Michigan; all elections in which his best finish was second place.

In New Hampshire, Ron Paul garnered the support of 47 percent of voters under the age of 30, while former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney pulled in 25 percent, the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) reveals. According to a yo–uth voter, interviewed by MTV News during the New Hampshire Republican primary, Ron Paul appeals to yo–uth voters because “he’s got a different view than normal candidates.”

CIRCLE also revealed Wednesday that Ron Paul pulled in the same number of youth votes as former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in five of the ten states voting on Super Tuesday (Massachusetts, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia). Both Ron Paul and Mr. Santorum received roughly 88,000 youth votes each. Mr. Romney pulled in 86,000 youth votes on Super Tuesday in the aforementioned five states.

“So far,the Republican primary shows a strikingly even race for the yo–uth vote, with no candidate really winning the young Republicans’ allegiance,” said CIRCLE director Peter Levine, in a CIRCLE press release. “The results so far suggest that Republicans have some work to do to build youth support,” Mr. Levine added.

Taking into consideration the fact that approximately 5 percent of eligible voters under the age of 30 voted on Super Tuesday, the question becomes: Is Ron Paul losing the youth vote or are his yo–uth voters apathetic to the outcome of the Republican race, because Mr. Romney appears to be on his way to the nomination?

Note: Does this bold well for Ron Paul in the coming states? why the yo–uth not active for Ron Paul or any politician per say? What is next for GOP Ron Paul?

<em>Via</em> AP

8 Comments

justin says:

March 12, 2012 at 12:21 pm

The article is fine. There is no biase here and in fact they have stuck up for Ron Paul in the past. The point you are missing is that if you want Ron Paul in the white house you need to get off of your @$$, get away from your computer and vote. VOTE VOTE VOTE. do not set by quitely and preach to people via the internet because if your not doing your part your not helping. Its an important issue if not the most important and you have to do your part or we will walk the same path each election year

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Young Lady says:

March 12, 2012 at 12:06 pm

Dr. Paul has been cheated out of alot of things and even this site is Phony and abusive like the rest of the media

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Paulie says:

March 12, 2012 at 10:09 am

The minds of the yo-uth and even us oldees need truth all the time, every time. The media is controlled to a very scary degree in this country and they are acting with great hubris and impunity as if even they themselves now are “too big to go to jail.” Be a beacon in the night from your soap box.
Dr. Paul merely preaches to get rid of the Federal Reserve who are a bunch of bankers being paid or paying themselves for doing nothing who are not part of our government and mostly not part of our nation. It is horrific what suffering this causes at both home and abroad. 95% of all of our arguments go away when we rid ourselves of the Federal Reserve—this is Dr. Paul’s number one mission. Tell the people why this is so important Mr. Lewin or Mr. Watkins because no where in our schools were we taught about this awful Federal Reserve system that plagues us all.
Since the Federal reserve prints endless money they can influence or buy anyone off—this is like sitting down to play monopoly and the other player has endless money—sooner or later you lose to him no matter how smart you are. We all deserve better and our enemy is a common one and it is not in the Middle East.

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anonymous says:

March 12, 2012 at 9:56 am

Please get educated on the election process. Its the least you could do before speaking for a whole race of people. Media doesn’t bother to inform you that it is the number of delegates that matter. Not these straw votes. Many voted and just went home. Ron Paul is currently top two in delegate counts. Many more delegates wont be awarded for weeks if not months.

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Vincent Harris says:

March 12, 2012 at 9:49 am

Instead of focusing on the media bias against Ron Paul I prefer to zoom into specific subgroups that have been working hard against Ron Paul for the last couple of years. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just people who disagree with him. People like Michael Gerson and Marvin Olasky are communitarians or civil-societarians that are hostile to the fiscal consrvative libertarian narrative that is promoted by the Ron Paul/ Jim DeMint wing of the GOP. I’m still hoping for a brokered convention as a possible favorable outcome for Ron Paul.

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Luka says:

March 12, 2012 at 1:04 am

Well great website you have here! I wanted to mention that Ron Paul is the only one who has a different stance than the other 3. It is blatantly obvious. If only he had the media attention I am sure he would sweep up a big movement.

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Joseph says:

March 11, 2012 at 10:04 pm

I am 27 and a Dr. Paul supporter. I don’t feel very inspired to follow the race much because it is very obvious that either (a) the majority of the repub party want’s the status quo or (b) influential people are manipulating the entire public conversation against Paul. Either way, it doesn’t give me much hope. I am not one that thinks the world will end if Paul doesn’t get elected. But I think the repub and democrat candidates are equally bad, and maybe Obama is just a little better. Not enough to get my vote though.

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John Hartigan says:

March 11, 2012 at 9:34 pm

I do find it interesting that Paul has had ten times as many show up for his rallies that his vote totals would indicate. I don’t know if they don’t want to pledge allegiance to the Party, or whether votes aren’t getting counted. Or both. There have been some strange things going on.
There is still hope.
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/17132990/paul-supporters-seize-control-of-clark-county-gop
However, I am pretty sure this won’t make headline news.

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