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Super Tuesday Results: Final Fling for Ron Paul?
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By Keith Walters Jones
Feb 4, 2008 |
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Super Tuesday may be the final fling for a lot of Republicans. John McCain and Mitt Romney are sniping at each other, Mike Huckabee is telling anyone that will still listen that he will stay in the race and the fourth member of the GOP that is still afloat, US Congressman Ron Paul, has vowed to remain in for the long haul all the way through the convention.
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But the numbers are horrendous for Paul, he is so far out of so many state races now it makes the early arguments of his supporters seem foolish, and at some point he will surely pull out. Is Super Tuesday the final fling for Ron Paul?
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The day is billed as a national primary and that is probably accurate. Voting takes place in twenty-one states for the Republican Party on Tuesday February 5th and the votes could determine whether the race for the Republican nomination is effectively decided early. Mitt Romney desperately needs a win in California and has to hope for McCain to fall short in some other states and give him some opening or even he is done.
One thousand thirty-eight delegates - just less than half the nearly twelve hundred (1,191) that are needed to secure the nomination are up for grabs and Republican conservatives are up in arms that McCain could wrap this thing up. Jim Roberts argues here that at some point "desperate conservatives" may want to take a look into supporting Ron Paul as the other "conservatives" fall off one-by-one.
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Reports claim that Rush Limbaugh attacked John McCain on his radio show today claiming that he had "stabbed his party in the back" on numerous occasions and he has that exactly right. However, if McCain does secure the nomination it will be a fairly easy argument to make that Limbaugh and the rest have lost their edge and control of the party.
All of this should have added up to an advantage for Ron Paul to sell his Libertarian campaign platform, but he has obviously fallen far short. Where does that leave the GOP? Running away from Rush Limbaugh and Ron Paul and towards the middle. In one day in early February, the GOP may make a big shift away from the right, and start courting moderates and independents as a strategy to keep the White House.
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