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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
However, I disagree with your Paul statement. Nader has said he will endorse Ron Paul if Nader does not think he has a chance of winning. That says something about the cross over power of Paul. Paul will not pull votes from one side but both and the middle. Something that has not been seen in a 3rd party so far. (Paul is polling 27% among indies in New Hampshire)
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Actually when Ross Perot ran as a 3rd party candidate he pulled votes pretty equally from both sides, so it has been done before.
So if Paul runs as an independent, and let's say it's Hillary vs Romney or Giuliani....then Paul gets the libertarian wing of the republican party to vote for him, and the anti-war part of the democratic party to vote for him.
So he may get 20% but that's not gonna be enough to win, and I think he'll pull enough votes from both sides that it wouldn't affect the outcome.
Here's the thing about Ron Paul, and this is just an honest non-biased opinion. I have nothing against the guy and I admire his conviction, and even agree with him on quite a few things.
He's just not a guy that you look at and listen to and think "Ok, this is the guy I want to trust with the nuclear launch codes"
That, more than any of his positions, is why he can't really win. It may not be fair, but that's really the way it is.
