The Iowa Republican Party announced that participants in its December 4 debate must average 5% support among Republicans in recent national or Iowa polls. That standard excludes Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, and Duncan Hunter.
The Iowa GOP is already feeling the heat:
"We are getting bombarded" with calls and e-mails from Paul's supporters, said GOP spokeswoman Mary Tiffany. She said there were 25 voice mails from angry Paul supporters before the start of business Thursday.Just wait. It will get much more intense.
Paul is polling at 5% nationally in the latest CNN and USA Today/Gallup polls, and 6% nationally in the latest Rasmussen. And these are polls that were conducted *before* his Nov. 5th $4 million "money bomb" and before most of his ads started running in NH and IA.
He will be in double digits by the time the debate rolls around. I suspect a truer measure of support than these outdated landline polls would already have him there.
Posted by: FZappa | Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 09:31 PM
This is rediculous. Does people honestly believe that Ron Paul is only polling 3, or even 5 percent? He's he's truely only getting that number then what's going to happen to his fundraising when he starts polling 10 percent? To me though, I just think that's an awful lot of money to raise in one day. He's got to be polling over 5 percent. At the very least! What other 3% candidate has raised so much money?
Posted by: Rich | Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 03:30 PM