Shhhhhh....Ron Paul could win California and therefore the nomination

Shhhhhh....Ron Paul could win California and therefore the nomination
Lori Stacey, DC Conservative Examiner
November 16, 2011

The award for the best kept secret in national Republican politics would have to go to Ron Paul for the concentrated effort of mainstream media to discount him as being unelectable and therefore have justified a lack of fair treatment during the debates.

According to two Bloomberg polls released this week, he is not only in a 4-way statistical deadheat in Iowa, but he has now surged to second place in New Hampshire.  There was also another Republican straw poll conducted in California, this one in San Diego, where he came in first again in that state by a significant margin (reported here).  All California straw polls that I am aware of, Ron Paul has won by a landslide.  This is a significant dynamic.

Iowa, New Hampshire and California are 3 very different regions.  You never hear mainstream media report much on his significant wins in California and the reason for this is simple.  California is the largest electoral prize in our land.  Any candidate that can win California in a primary has to be considered electable because its amount of delegates could make up for many other states' defeats.  So, if mainstream media ever admits that from all the California straw polls conducted, Ron Paul could win this huge electoral prize, it would not take a rocket scientist to figure out that he is very electable, indeed.   Any candidate that could garner a win in California and Texas would have a significant amount of delegates to lodge a good ol' fashioned challenge on the floor of the national convention even if these were the only 2 states won.

Not only does popularity in California during a Republican primary matter, but it presents Obama with a very scary thought that possibly Ron Paul could have what it takes to be the first significant Republican threat since Ronald Reagan to win California in the general election.  Then when you add into account his home state of Texas, the second largest prize in the land, we can see why this Congressman from Texas is being ignored by mainstream media talking heads on both the left and the right perspective.

As a strict Constitutionalist/Conservative and a former Republican that was born and raised in California (Reagan country), it would be sweet justice to crush the mainstream media-perpetrated myth that no conservative can ever win my former home state of California.  For this huge drum-beaten myth is what enables the electoral math to portray a country seemingly divided in half on the day of a general election.

Even if Ron Paul were to win in some of the early primaries and caucuses, I will predict that mainstream media will be pounding relentlessly for him to get out before Super Tuesday and portray the nomination already decided for a different candidate as the greatest victory for Ron Paul's campaign could come when California finally has its say. 



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