Inside Story US 2012 - Does Romney's Iowa win really matter?

[snowglobe888]

It disgust me how the media influences and chooses everything. WE choose; not the media.

RON PAUL 2012

[nonosh]

I don't understand why these analysts are so fixated on the "number of votes" concept. That's a terrible driver for designing campaign strategy. These guests should have addressed the ideological aspect of the nomination race; ideology is what helps individual voters determine their candidate choice.

[ThisHasBeenAlex]

Inside story: does this story really matter?

[MegaSteel9]

Ron Paul!

[myfavmusicandstuff]

Candidates are entitled to change positions such as Mitt Romney. Romney is a thinker and a businessman that's what we need!

[myfavmusicandstuff]

Vote Republican. No one candidate is perfect. Vote though Mitt Romney. Republicans rule!

[emptybei]

OBAMNEY!

Between January and September 2011, Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital gave Barack Obama $27,500!

So far this year, Bain Capital donated $123,200 to the Democratic National Committee. They also donated to a Romney super PAC; $1.25 million!

Romney’s companies have sent 25% of this year’s donations to the Democrats, while in 2008, 2/3 of their money went to Obama!

Donkey or Elephant – Corporations keep them FED.

Please give Ron Paul some consideration. I’m not a kid; I’m a university professor.

[MegaEnlightenedMind]

Ron Paul is a much better candidate to take on Obama as the GOP nominee than Mitt Romney. Romney is a friend of the Federal Reserve. He has stated that he will not make the Fed an issue in this election. Romney has also said that he thinks Bernanke has been doing a good job and is doing the best he possibly can.

[antihostile]

Dick Cheney destroyed the Republican Party.

[phodgsonphotography]

And who's got the independents again? Ron Paul. Winning.

[itsasin1969]

Ron Paul wrote many bigoted comments on his blog and made money off of it.

Search Ron Paul racist homophobic blog and read for yourself.

He is a bigot and homophobic.

[Alhazem1]

People that watch the news a lot and understand what is going on ... they are Ron Paul supporters.

[BrainRazer]

@Alhazem1 I'm not his supporter and I watch and read the shit out of news.

[GovernMentalFreedom]

Unsure of Ron Paul’s foreign policies because he is not a military war monger, China /Russia is ready to defend if we INVADE IRAN LIKE WE DID IRAQ, AFGHAN, LIBYA what kind of imbeciles applaud for killings in non declared wars based on WHAT IF. Is America a barbaric fear war monger nation? The world answers back with a loud YES.  A vote for Romney, Nuke or Satanorum is a vote for American Obamanation. Money easily prostituted Iowa - Your next PIMP is SELECTED not elected Gullible.

[SuperColong]

Ron Paul 2012

[SuperColong]

He is a great candidate he should run as a Democrat.

[SuperColong]

I wonder if Mitt Romney really won the Iowa race?

[sam4850]

RON PAUL 2012

[lawsonsmart]

Al Jazeera is owned by Israeli Business man & pays hefty money to Qatari fat pig like ruler as tax.

[lastpatriot4America]

So if there puppet wins iowa is important.. But if a true American Patriot wins in iowa it does not count.. You fucking idiots what is it going to take to wake you up. Do I need to come to each one of your homes and knock all the cotton out of you. YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAY in deciding who is president. They have told you. So sit down and shut the fuck up. You aint gonna do shit COWARDS.

[realomon]

QUASTION TO AMERICANS: GOP has Elephant as a symbol, DEMS have donkey. what symbol would Ron Paul get for his party if he runs as an independent?

[rettek808]

Looks like this page is infected with Ron Paul spam…

[MusicIzMySavior]

@rettek808 ron paul baby!

[morphor]

@rettek808 Maybe you should actually look up on Ron Paul? because this country is basically in disaster-zone? If you haven't noticed this entire country is run by corporatism, it's not even capitalism anymore its a government infused and payed for by Wall Street. Maybe you don't think it affects your every day life, and maybe you don't care but the fact is you SHOULD care. Ron Paul is the only candidate that has been shunned by big media business because he will not take lobby money.

[jalopy221]

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[jalopy221]

RON PAUL 2912

[Abbadon380]

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[brentoneccles]

Why does this strategist have any credibility anyway? He strategised the McCain-Palin campaign which was a complete and utter fucking disaster...

[LosDonkitos]

@brentoneccles well said ... :)

[brentoneccles]

I love that the "Republican strategist" said that Ron Paul will not be the nominee and then went on to say that for a Republican to win the Presidency they must attract independents and disenfranchised democrats... and all the polls which compute a Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama challenge show the independent voters going for Ron Paul overwhelmingly. So there's a big disconnect in this 'strategists' opinion.

[nem700]

@brentoneccles

except, you're missing the fact that republicans do not vote for their nominee based on how many independents and disenfranchised democrats they can attract. so the strategist got it right. ron paul will not win, but will be a strong force if he runs as an independent.

[DannyEmbry]

@brentoneccles one debate and Obama would wipe the floor with him...sorry, I like Paul a lot actually - but a LIBERTARIAN wants to run the biggest government in the history of man? Can't get behind that.

[brentoneccles]

@DannyEmbry I actually think it would be the other way around and quite easy for Ron Paul to defeat Obama in any debate, he could do so by focusing on one issue alone being the economy (while also criticising past republican administrations for the same reason) which is always a big decider in US elections.

[DannyEmbry]

@brentoneccles idk, Paul won't be able to keep debates solely on the economy and I honestly don't see Obama that weak on economy...just this morning i saw that we've added 200K jobs in December, you can say it's the holidays or whatever but the fact is for 3 years we've had consistent job growth, GDP growth, payrolls are up, etc.

+ in his jobs bill Obama wants to focus mid-class jobs by taxing the rich...in a recession how can the 'no tax hike' party win a debate in the general election?

[tinfoilhatter]

THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS...RON PAUL,THE ONLY SANE CANDIDATE,YET STILL CRAZY ENOUGH TO WANT THE JOB,HAS EARNED IT BY ENDURING ALL THE ABUSE AND NEGLECT HE'S BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF,NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT HE AT LEAST APPEARS TO CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY,WHICH APPEARS TO BE DOOMED FOR SURE...I SAY WE BETTER GIVE HIM A CHANCE,BECAUSE I'M AFRAID IT'S OUR LAST CHANCE IF WE WANT ANY KIND OF UNITED STATES FROM NOW ON...SERIOUSLY,WHO CAN ARGUE ABOUT THAT,HONESTLY? WE DON'T GOT MUCH TIME,FOLKS...RON PAUL!

[14bigthor88]

If i were aljazera i would promote the hell out of Ron Paul. He is the only one who does not want to bomb all there viewers.

[thedrumm3rguy]

@14bigthor88..on the fun side; If AlJ promoted Ron Paul, the right-wing US media would say Ron Paul has the support of "the terrorists TM" or "AL Qaeda prefers Ron Paul to win", scaring off the dumb voters, and probably ending his campaign chances :-P

If Al Jazeera was to go from news channel to propaganda channel (media death 101), it should vocally support the worst candidate!! :-D

[jgizzy]

@14bigthor88 lol funny. But in all seriousness, Al Jazeera is in Qatar -- which is a VERY US-friendly country.

[hansikelo]

@14bigthor88

aljazeera is a western media based in qatar nothing more. as mainstream as american media.

[Unclesamslair]

@14bigthor88 unlike western news organization it would seem as if aljazeera wouldn't do this kind of crap because they know what real journalism is.

[UniversalHourglass]

"Does Romney's Iowa win really matter?"

No.

[supablackman85]

If Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination, Obama wins simple and plain. There is no way the Republican base will accept a Mormon. The evangelicals despise Romney and would rather vote for Obama than to vote for a Mormon. They will just stay home. If the GOP nominates Santorum or Gingrich, Obama still wins by a landslide because Santorum and Gingrich are seen as unacceptable to Independents. That's why most of the sane republicans decided not to run 2012 against Obama.