Ron Paul Raises $4.3 Million in One Day

By James Buchanan – EURO

Ron Paul just raised 4.3 million dollars in one day. Ron Paul has just outperformed every single Republican competitor with this one day fund drive. What’s even more extraodinary is the fact that these are ordinary Americans giving a little more than $100 each on average. Whenever Giuliani or Romney has a big fund-raiser, it invariably involves the country club elite giving $2,300 checks. The great thing for Ron Paul is that his army of supporters can give another $100 in another fund drive while Giuliani and Romney have “maxed out” the donations from their rich, country club friends.

This fund-raiser comes on the heels of a very important poll. The London Daily Telegraph reports “(A Pew Research) Poll gives Hillary Clinton (a) big lead over Giuliani. …a new poll… places her ahead of Rudy Giuliani in the event of a presidential contest between the two. The survey, conducted by the respected Pew Research Centre, is one of the largest taken during the campaign, involving 2,000 prospective voters. It placed the former first lady eight percentage points ahead of the Republican former New York mayor - by a margin of 51 per cent to 43 per cent.”

What this means is that Republicans desperately need to re-think who is the best man to beat Hillary in 2008. They can’t afford to back an Open Borders candidate like Giuliani or Romney or Huckabee. They can’t afford the Iraq War “albatross” around their necks as they head for the election. Only one Republican candidate is taking a populist stand on bringing our troops home and opposing Amnesty, and that man is Ron Paul.

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