8/12/2007

Intrepid SF-Radio correspondent James Kelso reports from Ames Iowa

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“Victory for Ron Paul!”

By James Kelso
Audio Report

I’m seated at my laptop inside the Ron Paul Tent right here at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa.

The Iowa State Ron Paul Chairman has the mic right now. He just announced that Ron Paul will be arriving at our tent shortly.

It will take a lot of posts to give you some of idea of the great event going on here. I drove in last night with a carload of Ron Paul Revolution activists from Chicago, Illinois. I got into Chicago by finding a last-minute bargain-basement one-way air ticket from West Palm Beach to O’Hare Airport.

I’ve never been to Chicago before. Wow! What a great White achievement is Chicago! What a beautiful clear lake we White folks have preserved in Lake Michigan. What an astounding treasure-trove of the greatest art in the universe is gathered on that clear Lake Michigan waterfront in the Art Institute of Chicago. Dozens of posts would fail to convey the sweep of how beautiful this city, this lake, and this museum are. I’ll try a few such posts as the next two days unfold.

Right now a country band has just taken the stage. Singing patriotic White music.

My reports are going to be necessarily choppy from this amazing event, simply because there is so much going on, so many people, so much improvising going on. But here we go.

Dr. Ron Paul Is Speaking To Us Now

Dr. Ron Paul has got the crowd roaring right now in the huge Ron Paul Tent. The tent is packed. Another horde of Ron Paul Revolutionaries are spread out all over the parking lots, all around the Neocon candidates’ tents, and around the huge Hilton Coliseum. (more…)


Ron Paul beats out Giuliani, Thompson, and McCain in Iowa!

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Ron Paul Scores Over Nine Percent in Iowa
Paul decisively breaks out of “one to two” percent zone

By James Buchanan

Ron Paul just scored over nine percent in the Iowa straw poll –the first Republican event with a large number of voters. The winner of the straw poll, Mitt Romney scored 32 percent, suggesting that Republicans haven’t yet found a candidate, whom a majority will support. The Iowa primary will be held in January. Ron Paul’s decent showing should finally put him on the radar screen for Republican voters.

Paul has been battling a news black out by the mainstream media, who have previously dismissed him as “insignificant” with only one or two percent support. Ron Paul has built up a huge following on the Internet and has the greatest momentum of all the candidates. The mainstream media will either have to start giving Ron Paul some news coverage now or they’ll have to invent a new excuse to keep ignoring him.

The Iowa straw poll requires a $35 entry fee from each Iowa resident who wishes to vote. Ron Paul’s campaign raised enough for 500 tickets, but most of his 1,305 supporters had to buy their own tickets. Brownback, Romney and other candidates were buying tickets for all their supporters. The Iowa straw poll is therefore heavily slanted to the richest candidates. Also at $3 per gallon for gas, even the trip to Ames, Iowa is a bit expensive for many people, which is why some candidates bused in supporters from other towns.

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