USA Today Realizes Ron Paul is Viable Republican Candidate

In case you haven't noticed, it's not just those Ron Paul "exclusive" websites or those "really really alternative" websites, or those train wreck websites like Gambling911.com, that are now featuring the Republican 2008 US Presidential candidate Ron Paul more prominently these days.

USA Today takes the lead.  It seems a day does not go by that the leading US newspaper daily doesn't have something to offer about Paul.  Friday was no exception.

The paper reports on how a Miami Beach online music promoter, Trevor Lyman, is guiding an Internet fundraising drive that he says could well push Paul past his $12 million fourth-quarter fundraising goal by the weekend — a full month ahead of schedule.   Paul is about to crack the $10 mil mark this weekend.

Earlier this month, Lyman helped orchestrate an online effort that collected $4.2 million in a single day for the 10-term congressman. The one-day take surpassed the $2.7 million that Democrat John Kerry, his party's presidential nominee, raised two days after the Super Tuesday primaries in 2004.

Lyman, 37, has never voted in his life, but he'll vote for Ron Paul. 

"He had the foresight to vote against the war from the beginning," Lyman said.

Lyman is having much greater success on the political front than fellow Miami Beach promoter, Aaron Resnick, who failed to get his candidate, Simon Cruz, elected to City Mayor last week. 

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Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher CCostigan@CostiganMedia.com

Originally published November 30, 2007 10:20 am EST