Will McCain get Ron Paul's supporters? ...
06.22.08 -- 7:45 AM
Politico's Ben Adler asks if the GOP presidential presumptive nominee John McCain will get the votes of Ron Paul's supporters. Will he? With Paul favoring Obama's foreign policy views and suspecting that McCain will lock the US in a 100-year war in the Middle East, it doesn't seem very likely...
With iconoclast Ron Paul having ended his quixotic bid for the Republican presidential nomination — his platform had called for, among other things, ending the Iraq War, repealing the PATRIOT Act, returning to the gold standard and eliminating taxes on tips — his many dedicated supporters are up for grabs.
Even excluding his support in caucus states, Paul received a few more than a million votes in the Republican primary, finished second in five states including Pennsylvania and Oregon and continued to draw votes well after he’d effectively withdrawn from the race. His campaign also tapped into the potent new vein of online fundraising, punctuated by the so-called “money bomb” day when his supporters, unaided by his campaign, managed to pump $5 million into his coffers in 24 hours.
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