Ron Paul wins Debate in online Fox News poll, Fox removes poll without explanation

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  1. Dr. Righteous

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    http://rt.com/usa/news/fox-paul-debate-poll-257/

    The debate lasted two hours, and Fox only gave Paul 4 1/2 mins worth of time. He still managed to win their online pull, but they yanked it from their website with no explanation. It's quite obvious that they are threatened by him.
     
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    Are you a Ron Paul supporter?
     
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    He WAS the only different candidate out there. Your choices have been for many years was for a progressive Dem, or a progressive GOP. Ron breaks that norm and the media is scared of it for some reason. Maybe because without the unfunded wars way off on goat herders the the left a right take part in, there won't be much controversy or trips to far off distant lands for them.
     
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    I hope he wins nomination. I think he is a numbnuts but he has my sympathies because of how he gets treated by media. He will miserably fail in general election though, I like him for that too.
     
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    He is neck and neck with Obama. 39% Obama; 38% Ron Paul according to rassmusen. Don't really see him "failing miserably" like that.

    What would Obama say, we should start bombing Iran to keep them from getting nukes? That will sit well with his base.
     
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    The establishment media’s relentless campaign to denigrate Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential campaign has manifested itself once again, after a poll showing Paul had won last night’s Orlando debate was pulled by Fox News who later published an article claiming Mitt Romney had instead claimed the victory.

    When we took a screenshot of the poll at around 5am CST this morning, the result showed Paul easily beating his nearest rival Romney by 11,000 clear votes, with Paul at almost 40% and Romney trailing at just under 23%.

    After our screenshot of the poll was posted on the ever-popular Drudge Report website, Fox News pulled the page that had previously housed the poll entirely. But the network went further, subsequently publishing an article by National Review editor and Fox News contributor Rich Lowry opining that Mitt Romney had in fact won the debate, thereby completely ignoring their own website poll, which restricts users to one vote per IP address.

    Indeed, Lowry didn’t even mention Ron Paul once in his 13 paragraph piece, despite giving praise to Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Herman Cain – all of whom performed miserably in Fox News’ own post-debate poll. Ron Paul got nearly double the amount of votes in the poll than all three of them put together, but Lowry completely omitted Paul’s name from his report.

    As we have previously documented, Fox News, even more so than the likes of MSNBC and CNN, have constantly undermined Paul’s campaign with dirty tricks, including playing the wrong audio of a crowd booing Paul at this year’s CPAC event.

    See the results of the original poll before Fox News pulled it below.
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    Last check he's the only anti war candidate out there. Even Obama hasn't reduced overseas troop levels. I guess you're right. Our billion dollar war machine will never let a wacko like that get elected.
     
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    I think Ron Paul supporters have organized their online presence efforts better than the supporters of the other candidates. That doesn't mean it will translate to the overall voting public, however.
     
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    Everybody and their brothers know that Ron Paul's anarcho-kook supporters are notorious about spamming polls. But you are right we feel threatened by that loon Paul, because his foreign policy would inevitably lead to totalitarianism.
     
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    So are you saying you want the global bankers (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Bis, Royals, Vatican) to win again and move us more toward global slavery under UN AGENDA 21?
     
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    So you like Paul for is position on the war?
     
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    Rassmusen ??? You are a troll ...
     
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    Ok, I will admit I am new to using polls for my basis, please educate me on how quoting rassmusen makes me a troll?
     
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    Probably. But it doesn't change the fact that Fox News has an anti-Paul agenda
     
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    It would be hard for this statement to be riddled with more factual errors, distortions and outright lies than it already is.
     
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    His statement was distorted, but the libertarian ideology does call for a decline from the international community diplomatically, militarily, and economically. The extent of this decline varies upon the constituent or politician.
     
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    Which would by it's very nature trigger commensurate declines in domestic economics and social cohesion.
     
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    The war machine won't and neither will main stream media, which now includes fox. Just shows that no matter which side the media is on, they will lie if it fits their agenda.
     
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    He still has to get congressional approval. So just because he has some out their ideas doesn't mean he will get them into law.
     
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    Social cohesion? Is that communisim?
     
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    He may be refering to tyranny of the majority.
     
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    A Ron Paul presidency would result in totalitarianism? How could any statement be more backwards? I guess the American Revolution must have been a total waste of the founders time!
     
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    Guys like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson on want to reform drug laws so that Americans are no longer incarcerated in large numbers for non violent drug offenses. This will inevitably cut into the slave labor produced for coprporations and the government. For this reason, canidates like these will be denigrated by those who scream about big government all while being in the back pocket of that same big government.
     
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    Paul represents a threat to the Federal Reserve Bank.....an entity both parties exploit to spend money without accountability or prior approval from taxpayers.
     
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    Paul has what he has always had, his 5-10% and not a vote more. Think Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton...always with a base way, way too small to win.
     

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