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- Aug 27, 2008
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul is running within two points of Barack Obama in this weeks Gallup poll. In a Rasmussen survey, he trails by one. Hes rising against his primary rivals and raking in money, netting $1.8 million in a trademark money bomb over the weekend to mark his 76th birthday. And yet, as I write in a story for this weeks magazine (available to subscribers on tablets and the web), his candidacy isnt earning plaudits from the pundit class, whose virtual coverage blackout of Pauls second-place finish in Ames prompted Jon Stewart to wonder why the media was treating Pauls campaign like the 13th floor of a hotel.
On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Paul harvests these slights as fuel for the revolution. The media coverage on Sunday morning was less than perfect for us, he told the crowd last week at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Concord, griping about how he was stonewalled from speaking slots on the morning news shows after Ames. But you know what, in this day and age, they just arent as relevant as they think they are. The Rodney Dangerfield routine in a crowd pleaser; the media makes a reliable target. And in some ways he has a valid complaint.
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