In Retrospect: If the presidential elections were held today who would win between Barack Obama and Ron Paul?
Really, I want to know!
If Barack Obama was the Democrat Nominee and Ron Paul was the Republican nominee, who would have won?
McCain was the throw away candidate for the Republican party, much like Bob Dole was against Clinton.
So let’s get real. It should have been (and was) Obama, and the race should have been against Republican Ron Paul.
Who would you have voted for and who do you think would have won the electoral vote?
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Should have been? Then perhaps the majority of Republicans should have voted for him.
Would still have voted for Obama and Obama still would have won. If Ron couldn’t get enough votes to earn his parties nomination, he hardly would stand a chance in a general election.
I went for Obama, but I would of gone for Ron Paul.
I hate the Republican party right now. They cater to all the wrong groups, and it has it’s own “culture”.
Ron Paul was smeared heavily, especially by neo-con supporters. Fox News did all they could to discredit him.
He was the only traditional conservative running. The only one that demanded fiscal responsibility, and was outright against the war. He has voted strictly against it at every opportunity.
I think that some of his ideas are dead-wrong, but I believe he is an upstanding person that would of made a great president, using logic to work through problems.
Obama has a different approach, but at least his investments are more within the country than McCain was looking at.
Our infrastructure in this nation needs serious help. A lot of it has been left for 50-60 years, and never upgraded. 300mph bullet trains were first put into service in the 60s, and yet we have so few of them…and many of our railways have been left in disrepair from neglect.
We could have fast, cheap transit, that would be like oil to our nation’s productivity.
Obama. The last poll at that Con meeting, Paul finished last, behind Palin, who is as numb as they come!
Even Republicans don’t like him! He’ll be 77 years old the next election. His day is done!
No matter who was in other party President Obama would have won
The time was to rid the nation of the republicans and any other one
And they did
56% for Obama
No Democrat in their right mind would have chosen Ron Paul
…………please
The President of the divided states remains Barack Obama
What part of its over we won don’t they understand??
lol
Obama would win in a landslide.
More than 60% of the population believe Obama is doing a good job.
Ron Paul has run for President twice and twice has been thoroughly rejected by the American voters.
I love Ron Paul. The problem is people have lost the message of individual liberty and it is hard to get through to them. I’m 37 yrs old and I’ve just woken up 3 yrs ago. I’ve finally got a clear understanding of how government is supposed to work and how it was formed and all the details. Educate yourselves with real historical documents written by the founders themselves. From the time we are born we are marketed to continuously. Buy this, buy that, wear this, think this way, vote for this guy..and so forth. We have been living a lie all along!
News Flash! T.V. isn’t for showing programs, its for selling products and mind control. Radio is the same way, its not for playing music, its for selling advertising. Wake up America, let freedom be your guiding light. Turn off the idiot boxes of our lives and listen to our hearts.
Let’s see. Paul had about 1/10 the support that McCain and won NO state primaries, it would be rather delusional to think he would have been a more appealing candidate, don’t you think? BTW McCain was not the “throw away” candidate, he won the nomination because about ten times as many Republicans voted for him as voted for Ron Paul. I don’t think extremism was the answer here.
So if a lot of rightwingnuts agree with you you will be happy? I don’t get this question.
Why don’t you try to find a poll that would support your view? That would be a more reality based question than finding out what a bunch of heavily biased people here think.
Ron Paul can’t ever be the Republican nominee, because he doesn’t lie. The whole point of the Republicans is to lie and get the religious right and economic right to vote the same way. Neither of which could win on their own, because anyone looking rationally at either instantly sees what loonies they are. On the one hand you have religious leaders blaming gays for 9-11 and on the other you have Republicans saying that the only way the poor will be better off is if you give the rich millions in tax breaks and kill a million Iraqis.
OBAMA
Ron Paul got no support from the Republicans. I am an independent who votes democrat most of the time. I would consider Ron Paul though. I vote for change so Ron Paul was the best candidate in my view for the last election. The Republican fools didn’t support him though. It’s just too bad. If he runs against Obama in the next election I would give him a chance.
Really? I mean “REALLY”. Ron Paul? REALLY?
ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY RETARDED?
Voted for Obama then, and would vote for him now. And will again in 2012.
Ron Paul, he never even CAME CLOSE to winning one primary, his supporters made a lot of noise, much like the Dennis Kucinich supporters did on the republican sid, but anyone who thinks he had a real chance is living in a dream world, although you know, I actually would be interested in who would win a Paul vs Kucinich race. Two candidates who agreed on the war and disagreed on EVERYTHING else.
Obama would win even today. I would’ve voted Paul, even though I don’t agree with some of his more supposedly “radical” positions, just because he is so obviously sincere and principled and pro-American, and his agenda is about the really important things. I don’t believe that as Prez he would or could actually dismantle the government to a dangerous point. But I think you may be overestimating your fellow Americans if you think he would have won even the popular vote. Even today most people are in denial about the insignificance of party affiliation (people want so much to believe that election was their choice and that it mattered…the alternative is too terrifying), and are conditioned to be afraid of anything they perceive as fringe. Before the convention there was an effort to portray Paul as racist and backwards, and that would have been ramped up if he’d been even closer to being nominated. And there are still a lot of people who believe in Obama – I guess they are trying to ignore the elephant that walked into the room when he took office… it’s pretty depressing. I wish I could say I’m not smug that I chose to vote for a third party candidate instead of Obama. I wanted to believe, but I just didn’t, and unfortunately it looks like I turned out to be right. At least the doctor is still alive and kicking, though, and speaking his mind in Congress.
Unfortunately Obama probably would have won, but if the election were in 2009 instead of 2008 Ron Paul would have won.
A poll run by a guy from Rasmussen after the bailouts asked that exact question – who would you vote for, Obama or Ron Paul if Ron Paul were the GOP nominee, and Ron Paul won with something like 70%.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1411759-ron-paul
“Punditty Poll: If Rep. Ron Paul of Texas had won the Republican nomination, who would you vote for Nov. 4 in a contest between Paul (R) and Obama (D)?
The poll was launched Sept. 29, 2008, and closed at approximately 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Oct. 7.
RESULTS: 1,102 votes cast
Ron Paul: 79 percent (870 votes)
Barack Obama 20 percent (228 votes)
Other – 4 votes”
http://tinyurl.com/4z2cjz