Ron Paul won the California Straw Poll with 44.9% of the vote. And of course the event has been sparsely reported, if at all in the mainstream, as Rick Perry and Mitt Romney did not attend, giving the excuse that they are campaigning in South Carolina. South Carolina has a population of 4,625,364 with 8 electoral votes. California has a population of 37,253,956 with 55 electoral votes. The fact is Perry and Romney did not attend the California GOP Straw Poll because Ron Paul’s win was a foregone conclusion.
No Republican has won the State of California since George H. W. Bush did in 1988. This coupled with the fact that crowds of Ron Paul supporters, consisting of Americans of the American race in every age group, were out in the streets with signs and shouting “President Ron Paul”, would seem to logically indicate that the event should have been front and center in the headlines. Instead the propagandists brought the level of campaign reporting down to a minute amount in an attempt to allow the event to pass by unnoticed. In short they did not report on Ron Paul’s win because they weren’t reporting on the political race at all.
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