sailingaway
08-14-2011, 05:38 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-republican-presidential-race-the-knowns-and-the-unknowns/2011/08/14/gIQANfSkFJ_story.html
●Ron Paul isn’t going away: The congressman from Texas isn’t a leading candidate, but beyond Perry, Romney and Bachmann, he may be the one who will raise the most money and perform best in all of the early states. Paul’s near-miss at the Ames Straw Poll — he received three times as many votes on Saturday as he had in the same poll four years earlier — suggests that his support is growing. And that means he will be a factor — whether a major or a minor one remains to be seen — to be dealt with for all of the top candidates in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
●Ron Paul isn’t going away: The congressman from Texas isn’t a leading candidate, but beyond Perry, Romney and Bachmann, he may be the one who will raise the most money and perform best in all of the early states. Paul’s near-miss at the Ames Straw Poll — he received three times as many votes on Saturday as he had in the same poll four years earlier — suggests that his support is growing. And that means he will be a factor — whether a major or a minor one remains to be seen — to be dealt with for all of the top candidates in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.