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Ron Paul Takes Second Place In Nevada

From Kathy Gill, About.com Guide   January 20, 2008

After finishing fourth or fifth in the first four GOP contests, former Libertarian Presidential candidate and 10-term Texas Congressman Ron Paul appears to have taken second place in Nevada, significantly behind Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney but edging out Sen. John McCain (AZ).

Exit polls suggested Romney took the Mormon vote; approximately 1-in-5 Republicans caucusing today said that they were Mormon. The graphic below shows results from the Nevada GOP with 1750 of 1789 precincts reporting. [Final results are not on the GOP home page: Romney, 51%; Paul, 14%; McCain, 13%. Paul trumped McCain by 434 votes.]

Paul is the only Republican candidate to oppose the Iraq war. He has consistently finished behind Romney, McCain and Mike Huckabee (who was fourth in Nevada). Paul has also consistently and significantly trumped Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani and Duncan Hunter, who bowed out of the nomination race today.

In addition, it looks like Paul will be the top fundraiser for the Republicans when fall 2007 data are final.

See How Do Nevada Caucuses Work? ... State Politics At A Glance: Nevada ... 2008 Election Central

Nevada Results

Comments

January 20, 2008 at 12:47 pm
(1) Steve says:

Your numbers are wrong… Go here
http://www.nvgopcaucus.com/results

January 20, 2008 at 1:25 pm
(2) Tess says:

This was a victory for the one candidate that is so often left out of the media. Ron Paul is in it for the Long Haul! Giuliani has to win Florida, if he doesn’t he is out. McCain is not telling everyone the truth, and letting them know that by staying in Iraq and overseas we are going to totally collapse our economy.

January 20, 2008 at 2:04 pm
(3) Joe says:

Nevada GOP website show Paul with 14%. Will you kindly update the graphics?

“Paul is the only Republican candidate to oppose the Iraq war.” If the Republicans want to win the White House, they should read and think about this sentence.

January 20, 2008 at 5:21 pm
(4) Daniel says:

Typo: Morman should be Mormon.

Go Ron Paul.

January 22, 2008 at 6:17 pm
(5) Frank says:

Nevada GOP shows Paul at 14%. How many weeks will it take to update your picture?

Also, your picture strangely cut out the number of precincts tally, which would have allowed your viewers to easily notice the results you have published are not complete.
I wonder why that info was removed from the picture?

January 23, 2008 at 2:42 am
(6) uspolitics says:

Frank, you seem to be seeing conspiracies where there are none.

The article was updated with the final data. The article also clearly says (and has done so from the beginning) that the image reflects an incomplete tally. And the image has a timestamp of 3.51 pm.

I’m not going to update the image. This is a blog post — a snapshot in time.

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