The 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections: Who will challenge Pres. Barack Obama?

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Ron Paul all but ends presidential campaign, continues delegate strategy

Ron Paul announced Monday that his campaign will no longer spend money on presidential nominating contests due to lack of funds, effectively ending his campaign for the Republican nomination.
Paul wrote the following in an open letter to supporters:
Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that Liberty is the way of the future. Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.
Paul, the only Republican presidential candidate actively campaigning against front-runner Mitt Romney, encouraged his supporters to continue their involvement in the presidential race as well as down-ballot races across the country, and to spread his message of lower spending and the protection of individual liberties. He stressed that he will continue working to win delegates.
"In the coming days, my campaign leadership will lay out to you our delegate strategy and what you can do to help, so please stay tuned," Paul wrote. He stopped short of an outright suspension, an option all of his fellow competitors (besides Romney) have chosen.
Two weeks ago, Paul and his supporters cheered Paul's delegate wins in Maine and Nevada. But as Yahoo News reported, those wins didn't necessarily move Paul any closer to winning his party's nomination.
Paul has long touted a strategy to rack up delegates as a way to become a part of this summer's convention process, absent an outright win.
Paul currently has 104 delegates and Romney has 966, according to the Associated Press.
In recent weeks, Paul supporters have been increasingly vocal in their attacks on establishment Republicans, accusing them of employing "dirty tricks" to benefit Romney over Paul.
Paul's campaign attempted to quash the most recent attack Sunday by defending the Republican National Committee and Chairman Reince Priebus against accusations the party is violating Rule 11, which bans favoritism, by creating a joint fundraising committee with Romney in April.
Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton reconfirmed in a statement Sunday that the Paul campaign was also invited by the RNC to set up a joint committee and declined.
"The RNC offered to set up a joint fundraising committee with the Paul campaign and were very clear that if Dr. Paul became the nominee, the Victory Operation would be behind him 100 percent," Benton said. "They also were clear that they would hold off if our campaign objected. I gave my full consent for the RNC to move forward."

Ron Paul all but ends presidential campaign, continues delegate strategy | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

This is extremely inaccurate. The A.P. doesn't have the accurate delegate count. Primaries in the US are beauty contests. Remember Al Gore won the popular vote but GWB won the electoral college? And there is nothing as a BOUND DELEGATE. if they did they might as well hold popular elections.

Paul has won in Iowa, Massachussets, Nevada, Minnesota, Iowa, Maine and dozen more? he holds the majority of delegates in these states that will vote for him in the 1st round at the RNC in Tampa. If Romney doesn't clinch the 1st round....The bound delegates can vote for whoever. We have alot of primaries to still go through as well as Conventions in the States.

Warren G. Harding accomplished this long ago. It's very possible Ron Paul can as well.

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I'll place my bet on Romney. It's unlikely to have a Republican Senator to win against Obama though, as there's a looming animosity over the health care bill, and disputes over financial reform, environmental issues, jobs, and any number of issues that we're seeing bruising these partisan members.

Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence and Eric Cantor would've been great candidates aside from Ron Paul and Santorum. But as a Republican myself from the northeast, I would love to see Mike Huckabee run the party compared to Romney.

Mike has a distorted view of the outside world and is more a sell out. Reason alot wouldn't participate in the Huckabee Forums on TV.

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Actual Number Ron Paul is so far guaranteed is 205

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Abraham wasn't that great. He was just right for the Civil War but overall he sucked. He was also extremely two faced and brown noser to the voters depending where you lived.

FDR prolonged the Great Depression and added a bunch of Federal Bureaucracies that didn't really help the country. It just destroyed the economy and opportunity. He's just accredited cause he made the US Government Gigantic and defeated Germany and Japan. In terms of running the civilian side of the Government he did a lousy job.

As what this whole forum is all about, everything is based on opinions. And yes, if you do believe Lincoln wasn't that great, then that's your thinking. He was ONE of the greatest, even democrats admit it.

Probably one of the most hated presidents ever.But his accomplishments were far greater than any presidents we know today.

1)Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolishing slavery.
2)Defeating the Confederation and eventually reuniting North and South.
3)Under Lincoln's administration, the Homestead Act was passed. This allowed landless refugees and low-class families without land to own one, which helped populate the Great Plains.
4)Lincoln curbed civil liberties including suspending the writ of habeas corpus.
5)He was a great strategist that prevented turmoil among his rival politicians.
6)And he had the qualities of a great leader in his term. Check this link:


10 Qualities that Made Abraham Lincoln a Great Leader

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Is this true?

[miekuh]

obama is the last president of USA. search for that

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I don't care who wins anymore just as long it gets Obama out of office.

[Detective Mask]

I don't care who wins anymore just as long it gets Obama out of office.

Even if the other candidate may be worse than Obama?

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Even if the other candidate may be worse than Obama?

No one is worse than Obama. He's even worse than Carter.