If you didn’t know, Ron Paul came in third place in the Iowa vote on who the next Republican candidate should be. Note this isn’t the actual vote from the state – that happens later in the year. This is just an idea. If you didn’t know, I want Ron Paul to win the candidency. Here are a few of my observations:
1) 122,255 people voted and Romney beat Santorum by just eight votes. Eight out of 122,255. This is pretty staggering and, let’s be honest, eight out of 122,255 really could be just a counting error. A team of volunteers counting 122,255 are bound to make a few mistakes, so who came first or second really should be taken with a pinch of salt. Especially odd that this year, for the first time ever, the votes were counted in secret away from GOP HQ, under the guise of a fear of terrorism interfering with the result. But, that’s another story…
2) Ron Paul came third. But, he almost 24% of the vote. Considering the media has been trying to position him as a crazy old ‘kook’ who has no hope of anything, a quarter of votes seems pretty mainstream to me…
3) Santorum came in second and got 26% of the vote. For those he don’t know, he is a Christian who has firmly expressed his hatred of gay people, wants to nullify all gay marriages/civil partnerships/etc, who is against abortion, even after rape, and who is against birth control in all circumstances. And he got over a quater of votes. America worries me.
4) Nobody who’s won Iowa has won the final candidacy since the 1970s. Statistically speaking – and, when it’s looked like Paul would win, as the media have been so desperately pointing out – people who win Iowa rarely win the whole thing. So, with proof of being mainstream and stats on his side, I’d say that third place is a pretty good result for Dr Ron Paul.