Ron Paul's Northern Stength

[politicus]

Ron Paul's strongest support has been in the Northern-most states: Montana 25%, North Dakota 21%, Maine 19%, Alaska 17%, Minnesota 16%.

We need to ask what accounts for our particular success in these states. Are northerners more self-reliant? Does it matter that these states all border Canada?

This could be good for states like Washington, Oregon, Idaho, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Vermont.

[Jeremy]

The internet is more used there? Maybe...

[Mithridates]

Ron Paul's strongest support has been in the Northern-most states: Montana 25%, North Dakota 21%, Maine 19%, Alaska 17%, Minnesota 16%.

We need to ask what accounts for our particular success in these states. Are northerners more self-reliant? Does it matter that these states all border Canada?

The province I come from (Alberta) borders Montana and has had a conservative government for the past 30+ years or so. It has a flat tax, no sales tax, paid off its debt in 2005, and was the birthplace of the Reform Party, started by a man named Preston Manning who is pretty much as close to Ron Paul as you can get in Canada. His party was about smaller government, less taxes, paying off the debt, not receiving the gold-plated pensions MPs (members of parliament) get, that sort of thing. They went from one seat in the late 80s to over 50 in 1992 (or 1993, don't remember exactly which year) and eventually merged with another conservative party to form the current government, though it's gone quite far from its roots and Preston Manning hasn't been with the party since about 2000.

So yes, there's definitely a general receptivity to new ideas in that area. Maybe move the free state project to Montana and bring in a lot of Albertans to eventually get citizenship?

[expatinireland]

The northern states were largely originally settled by northern Europeans - Scandanavians and Germans.

[Onslaught_Fei]

And as we all know, Scandanavians and Germans are fucking metal \m/

[gpickett00]

Ron Paul's strongest support has been in the Northern-most states: Montana 25%, North Dakota 21%, Maine 19%, Alaska 17%, Minnesota 16%.

We need to ask what accounts for our particular success in these states. Are northerners more self-reliant? Does it matter that these states all border Canada?

This could be good for states like Washington, Oregon, Idaho, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Vermont.

Not to burst anyones bubble, but those are all states that hold caucuses. We tend to do better in the caucuses, which I think are more fraudulent than regular voting. We still haven't placed "well" in a regular primary election. What makes us believe that #1 we can win the 5 states necessary to participate in a brokered convention and #2 that Mccain wont get >50% of the delegates?