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|[[Ron Paul]]
|Terrific on economic issues, can raise the money needed to win; people may look to an anti-war Republican; Won the [[CPAC]] Poll. Appeals to many social liberals. Runs [[pro-life]] ads while Romney says little about the issue. Also, Obama's support in polls is lowest when Paul is his opponent.
|Voted twice to repeal [[DADT|Don't Ask, Don't Tell]], which the vast majority of Republican primary voters support; his age (76 in 2012) will be used against him; has never won statewide office; his views on the war on drugs and the military also alienates alienate many Republicans. Other candidates have adopted some of his economic ideas but Paul has been given very little time during the debates to promote them himself. The media in general treats him as a non-contender despite his performance in polls.
|Has won at least fifteen regional straw polls and online polls and, surprisingly, won the Values Voter Summit [[straw poll]] in a landslide in Oct. 2011. Was the clear crowd favorite in the [[Iowa]] debate on Aug. 10. and easily won the [[MSNBC]]-sponsored candidates' debate at the [[Reagan Library]] on September 7. Scientific polls of Republican voters, however, have repeatedly shown him stuck in the middle of the pack, often in single digits.
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