"Bachmann, Paul soar in Iowa’s straw poll; Pawlenty distant third; Romney way back in event he didn’t contest" by Matt Viser and Tracy Jan Globe Staff / August 14, 2011
While many dismiss the poll’s significance, hordes of media descended upon this college town in the center of the state to witness the spectacle. Paul, whose campaign paid $31,000 for primo real estate on the university grounds, hosted a sprawling compound of tents and an inflatable two-story slide called “The Sliding Dollar.’’
“Others will come into the race,’’ Paul told a large, enthusiastic crowd of supporters wearing red Ron Paul T-shirts. “They’re looking for the super establishment candidate who can challenge us, but it won’t dilute our vote.’’
No, the Diebold machines will do that.
Paul, who took 27.7 percent of the vote, has an ardent group of supporters, and has proven adept at mobilizing them and winning straw polls. Most political observers and polls, however, suggest he will have trouble with a more broad-based national campaign.
That's the corporate media's take on things.
You know, the one that constantly lies, obfuscates, distorts, and insults you.
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Yeah, that's the one. N'h England's flagship (frown).
Related: THE IOWA STRAW POLL MYSTERY
The rigging has already begun for a poll that don't matter much.
Also see: Rick Perry joins the GOP race
The back-up corporate candidate after Mitt's inane comment about corporations.
Just what we need, another George Bush.
And I can already see the machine-made results. We will be told Romney and Perry were front-runners and Bachmann will get a chunk sent her way so Paul will finish fourth and have no influence or effect.
Face it, America, it's a corporate-controlled government and media.
Related:
"The Five Boxes of Liberty
- The Moving Box—right of association, in particular territorially via migration
- The Soap Box—right of free speech
- The Ballot Box—right to a voice in your government
- The Jury Box—right to a trial by jury of your peers
- The Ammunition Box—right to threaten or use appropriate violence in self-defense
You see where we are standing; why won't they listen?
And as we all know "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
You need to WALK LIKE an EGYPTIAN, America!
You need to be a YEMENI and just BE OUT THERE DAY after DAY after DAY after DAY until the SYSTEMS MUST LISTEN and RESPOND!!!
Yes, government will drive some to violence and frame others in false flags or use agent provocateurs to disparage and distract, but they certainly would never use violence against peaceful protesters here in America, right? That's only for icky enemy countries (and Britain, too, but ignore that).
Certainly American leaders would here the anguished calls of its citizens -- unlike those awful regimes that keep people down and that we criticize.
Update: Tim Pawlenty quits race
