Why you hatin on Paul, Rick? Who is your candidate?
Nope the Paulbots have been caught several times rigging the online polls and bragging about it. Granted it is not all Paul supporters or even most of them. Just enough it make him look stupid. The sad thing is he does have a few good ideas but will never be taken seriously because of stuff like this. I think it even rules out anybody picking him for the VP slot.
Nope he is very overrepresented in the Facebook generation.
Paul has had some rabid, almost cultish supporters long before facebook, so I'm not sure I buy that, either. Remember: the "Tea Party" people all but plagiarized thier rally ideas from the Paul supporters, who had been doing that for some time. I'm almost inclined to agree with Rick; it seems the Paul supporters really stack the polls, even if they aren't hacked. They are much more involved than the rest of the brain-dead, "heard all about him/her on CBS" crowd. I for one am not a "Paul-bot", but as of now will likely spend my vote in the primary on him. I pretty much have little use for the rest of the field, although I need to check Huntsman out some more.
My hope is that his son Rand picks up where his dad left off, and maybe he can be a real factor in the future.
Now some of his supporters have been caught promoting their preferred candidate using decidedly unsavory means. SecureWorks has released a report detailing the mechanisms behind a four day pro-Paul spam flood (one that we noted back on November 1). Apparently a botnet was employed to send unsolicited emails via infected computers, in much the same illegal style that's used to hawk pirated software and disc0unt v1agra.
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