Hello Ron Paul or Goodbye Readers

Times are tough in the newspaper business. Newspapers are losing readers, and, increasingly, advertising dollars to new forms of media unique to the Internet.

Newspapers often defend their offerings against these upstart competitors by citing their editorial function. "The Internet is full of garbage," they say, "and our journalists and editors sort through all the junk for you and report the real story."

In the case of the Presidential Campaign of Congressman Ron Paul, however, newspapers appear to be missing or ignoring the real story, and undermining their credibility in the process.

Ron Paul is a 10-term U.S. Congressman seeking the Republican nomination for President, running on a platform of limited government.

As measured by activity on the Internet, he has generated more interest than any other Presidential candidate. His website gets far more traffic than that of any other candidate. He is the most searched-for candidate on Google. He has the most people connected to him on social networking websites.

His Internet support transfers into real world support. Ron Paul has won more straw polls around the country than any other Republican candidate. He has over 70,000 grassroots volunteers. His poll numbers have gained steadily, and he now polls consistently in the high single digits in spite of polling bias against his younger supporters with cellular phones instead of landlines and against his Independent supporters who did not vote in the 2004 Republican primaries.

His fundraising momentum has been dramatic. On November 5^th, he set the record for most money ever raised in a single day by a Republican candidate for President-more money than George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan ever raised in a single day. He is tracking to be the leading Republican fundraiser for the fourth quarter of the year. And since average donation sizes to the Ron Paul campaign are smaller, he outpaces all the other Republican candidates dramatically in terms of the actual number of people who have donated to his campaign.