Because the MSM FINALLY DISCOVERED HIM!!
"N.D. revved up despite scant attention from candidates"
".... North Dakota is one of the 24 Super Tuesday states that will vote tomorrow in what amounts to a national primary. But its small population - slightly more than Boston's - spread over 70,000 square miles of prairie, plains, and badlands, and its correspondingly low delegate counts - just 13 for Democrats, 23 for Republicans - have rendered North Dakota one of the least important priorities for candidates in both parties.
And so, amid the most contentious presidential nominating contests in a generation, North Dakotans are choosing their candidates in a bizarre political environment: no polling, no sign- wavers at busy intersections, few television ads, and no appearances by candidates - except for Ron Paul, a Republican congressman who plans to visit the state today.
But that does not mean there is no campaigning going on.
"This is the most active I've ever seen it, with the presidential candidates," said Rick Gion, a spokesman for the state Democratic-NPL Party.
The party's website crashed the other night because of heavy traffic, Gion said. Barack Obama has put nine staff members on the ground, an unheard-of number for a caucus here. In the northwestern corner of the state, a farmer spray-painted "RON PAUL" on seven large hay bales stacked beside a highway....
Perhaps the most energetic GOP group is for Paul, whose supporters have organized their own groups, put up their own signs, and even bought their own ads in their local paper. Charlene Nelson, a volunteer-turned-paid coordinator for the campaign, said Paul's libertarian ethos is well suited to North Dakota.
"Loving freedom and wide open spaces, that's our character," she said. "Ron Paul speaks to freedom."
There are his delegates -- all 20 of them -- in a CHUMP CHANGE WIN, huh?!
So they mentioned him a DAY BEFORE Super Tuesday, huh?
Pfffffffttt!
This sort of explains the Globe's news coverage right here, doesn't it, readers?
".... On the Republican side, we welcome the emergence of John McCain as the front-runner for the party's nomination.... "
Then the DEATH KNELL from the Globe -- they mention Dr. Paul and his campaign again!
"... Silicon Valley, nerve center of the technology industry, has never been known as a political hotbed. People here talk more about Apple's iPhone than about White House policy. But in an election year dominated by war and a slumping economy, with races still undecided in both parties, many are paying closer attention to the campaign.
And candidates are paying closer attention to the Valley. No fewer than eight, including Republicans John McCain and Ron Paul and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have made their pilgrimages to the Googleplex to court leading-edge innovators, show off their knowledge of high-tech issues and, in off-campus fund-raisers, tap the largess of stock option millionaires.
A total of twenty-four states will vote tomorrow, in the closest thing yet to a national primary, but delegate-rich California will be the largest prize, with 441 delegates on the Democratic side and 173 on the Republican.... "
The article then references Ron Paul no further, while falling all over the others and their campaign contribution haul!
What gives with the mention now, readers?
They will be able to say Ron Paul also ran, then go back to totally ignore him, me and you.
So when McCain gets the MSM coronation tomorrow night -- as the script has lain forth -- in a Super Tuesday sweep, remember where you first heard it.
For the record, I predict the delegate count after tomorrow night to be approximately:
McCain: 925
Romney: 225
Huckabee: 75
Paul: 25
You can watch C(IA)NN -- the best political team on television (how sad) -- see how accurate I am, readers.
