Is Ron Paul "Top Tier"?

[ChrisDixon]

http://maineforronpaul2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/is-ron-paul-top-tier/

This is a blog post I wrote up for our Maine grassroots blog. It spawned from a Cain supporter in a county GOP group here claiming that no polls existed showing Paul as a frontrunner, thus making him not a "top tier" candidate. I laid out a several paragraph argument against it, and then decided to take it a step further, by going much more in depth.

[JohnGalt1225]

http://maineforronpaul2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/is-ron-paul-top-tier/

This is a blog post I wrote up for our Maine grassroots blog. It spawned from a Cain supporter in a county GOP group here claiming that no polls existed showing Paul as a frontrunner, thus making him not a "top tier" candidate. I laid out a several paragraph argument against it, and then decided to take it a step further, by going much more in depth.
I think he is, I think a lot of polls are skewed or misrepresent the truth. I think especially with the Cain campaign imploding from within, Perry's fall from grace, Bachmann's complete meltdown, and Mitt Romney's failure to capitalize on any of this, Dr. Paul set to be the last man standing. It's going to come down to Ron and Mitt. Ron will get a lot of disaffected liberals and independents, and most conservatives will probably embrace him over Multiple Choice Mitt.

[PastaRocket848]

well, to be honest, by any traditional measure he is not. this is clearly a 3-tier race... romney and cain in the 20's... ron in the middle 10's... everyone else in the single digits. it's very hard to make a sound argument that the guy with 10-15% (being optimistic.. far less in some states) is in the same "tier" as the guys that have been polling in the mid 20's for a while (as high as 40's in some states). there is clearly a separation that we must acknowledge.