Ron Paul Planned Money Bomb December 16 The Talk of the Net
Ron Paul's supporters are at it again. This time on December 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. They are once again asking one and all to come forward and donate $100 or more (or less). Sportsbook.com is taking bets on how much Ron Paul will raise that day. The over/under line is five million dollars. That means that Sportsbook.com is taking bets from people as to whether they think he will raise more or less than five million dollars. Typically, sport lines tend to move as gamblers begin to place bets. It will be interesting to see just how much money the "market" thinks that Ron Paul will rake in that day. As more bets are placed, the "line" will move up or down to respond to public perception.
In addition to betting on how much you think Ron Paul will raise on December 16, 2007, you can also bet on who will be the next President at www.sportsbook.com. Currently, Ron Paul's odds (on this site) of winning the election stand at 6 to 1. Mitt Romney's odds are at 8 to 1, Mike Huckabee's odds are 50 to 1, and both Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are at 5 to 1, Fred Thompson has the slight lead at 4 to 1.
On November 5, 2007, Ron Paul made history by raising the most money online in a single day. In that 24 hour period his supporters brought in over $4.3 million dollars. The mainstream establishment that still has no idea that the Ron Paul campaign is real was quite surprised. They continually discount online polls taken after debates because he wins by too great a margin and they are sure the numbers cannot be correct. Part of their bewilderment comes from the fact that Ron Paul is polling nationwide somewhere around 5% or less, with some figures coming in as low as 1% and we all know how much reverence the mainstream media has for "scientific" polling. So because he is not polling that high they usually accuse his supporters of "spamming" their polls (voting more than once) conveniently ignoring the fact that those polls were set up so that you could only vote one time per cell phone or IP address depending on the type of poll they had so "spamming" was not possible.
The mainstream media has repeated the mantra that Ron Paul's support is all coming from a few dedicated supporters so many times they have convinced themselves. Of course, Ron Paul's supporters know the media is wrong, and nearly the rest of the Internetsavvy world know that his support is growing exponentially and at an incredibly rapid rate. Currently he has over 1,214 meetup groups devoted to him with 72,730 members in 949 cities and 24 countries. Yes, even ex-pats and the military have groups for him around the world including Africa, Korea, Australia, just to name a few. You can see the whole map here.
The most amazing thing about this "money bomb" as some called the donation bonanza is that it was all started by one supporter who had an idea and told a friend who told a few friends, etc. etc. etc. By the end of the day on November 5, 2007, over 38,000 people had donated to Dr. Paul to become their next President and the average donation: roughly $103 bucks. No, Dr. Paul is not bringing in the big numbers from the huge corporations expecting favors because they know that Dr. Paul doesn't issue favors with other people's money. The lobbyists don't even bother knocking on his door. This "money bomb" came in from the average Joe who knows that Ron Paul's message of limiting government interference in your lives and restoring lost civil liberties is a welcome change from the past 8 years.
What the mainstream media can't seem to figure out is why the polls are way off when it comes to Ron Paul. The typical "scientifc" poll only polls people likely to vote in the Republican primaries and they typically pick that group from people who voted in the last Republican Presidential primary. In actuality, a lot of Ron Paul's support comes from young people who will be voting in their first election, disenfranchised Democrats who were promised an end to this war but never got it, (Ron Paul voted against the Iraq war in the first place and just wants to bring the troops home now, not in another 6 years as Mrs. Clinton is tentatively offering, but she won't even hold firm to that), Independents are supporting Ron Paul, so are Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and "not declareds". None of those people are getting counted in the polling. But you can bet his support is real.
No matter what happens on December 16, Ron Paul is sure to come out a winner.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned
- this is the sum of good government. "
Thomas Jefferson
Ron Paul Planned Money Bomb December 16 The Talk of the Net