Super Tuesday was a very interesting night. Mike Huckabee suprised everyone by winning West Virginia and by picking up a couple of states in the south.
The votes were all counted. The people have spoken.
Barack Obama made gains across the US. Hillary Clinton won the "prized" state of California as did McCain. Mitt Romney did not expect Mike Huckabee to do so well as he did tonight. Romney will probably have to think about what direction he needs to take his campaign.
Unfortunately for Ron Paul, tonight was not his night, in spite of how well he did placing second in the Nevada and Lousiana caucuses, he did not win in a single state.
"Ron Paul has already said that he was 99.9% sure that he would not run as an Independent or as a Libertarian."
Ron Paul is/was the dark horse internet hyped candidate of 2008. He seems to be out of luck now as the majority of delegates now are to be awarded to the other candidates.Mike Gravel is still in the race, but his support is dwindling. It doesn't seem that Ron Paul will get a chance to win the Republican nomination. The reality is if Ron Paul doesn't have a chance at the Republican nomination for president, he more then likely won't have a chance at the nomination for vice-president.
Ron Paul scored an average of 4 percent support nationwide, as a comparison in 1988 in the general election he polled at less then 1 percent nationwide, without the support of the todays techonology. It now seems without doubt that the "Ron Paul Revolution" is dead or has run out of steam.
What will the Ron Paul campaign do? What other tricks does it have up its sleeves? It has already used the unique idea of utilizing a blimp. It has already utilized the idea of using aerial forces to spread the message by flying around "blackout" areas where he was not allowed to debate. It has already used the viral force of the internet all to no avail.
To use a Biblical analogy, Saul slew his thousands, but David slew his tens of thousands.
Will Ron Paul's current support dwindle in the light of the recent election numbers? What will his next steps be? We can only watch the news or check up online to see what will happen next.
Ron Paul has already said that he was 99.9% sure that he would not run as an Independent or as a Libertarian.
As a prediction, more then likely the internet and various media sources across the world will now focus their eyes on Obama, Clinton, McCain and Huckabee however fair or unfair as it may be, as the former candidates of 2008, and 2007 become relics of Alexa's Wayback Machine and food for Google's web crawling spiders.
Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel, and Ron Paul will have to put up one major fight in order to win any type of nomination. All in the short term seems unlikely.
Ron Paul is a good man, as are the other candidates, but the world is an unfair place to live.
In spite of negative things occurring in various campaigns, hopefully positive things will await us in the future. God help us.
"The R3volution is Dead" "The Ron Paul Revolution is Dead"
Ron Paul Chaos in Alaska? Why Paul didn't win in Alaska.
