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The Times-Picayune, the daily newspaper of New Orleans, notes in this story that there are now more votes on the Americans Elect web page in support of Stephen Colbert for President than for Buddy Roemer. As the story ...
The Times-Picayune, the daily newspaper of New Orleans, notes in this story that there are now more votes on the Americans Elect web page in support of Stephen Colbert for President than for Buddy Roemer. As the story says, Ron Paul continues leading the Americans Elect balloting.
Buddy Roemer is currently a candidate for the GOP nomination, as much of America remains blissfully unaware. However, if he decides to pursue the AE platform, after a reasonable amount of time passes, then this would be news. As it is, his GOP poll numbers would be the appropriate topic of conversation. Except that the pollsters don?t actually query his support.
Additionally, the summary report here fails to mention that Barack Obama is currently in the 4th position on the AE website with 753, besting Colbert by a whopping 347. If anything, it makes AE look kind of goofy. Of course, it?s still only getting started with its business.
Huntsman has already endorsed Romney. Obama wouldn?t run against himself. Ron Paul probably won?t want to subject his son to having the elder Paul blamed for getting Obama elected again, thus ruining a promising career for Rand Paul; and, even if Paul does bolt, it would probably be to the LP, not to AE.
Bloomberg is an interesting case. There?s been suspicion all along that he is the real candidate hiding behind AE as a facade. He was never among the top tracked candidates, but is now among the top supported ones. However, he hasn?t made it official, at least not as of yet. Maybe he wants to see how the Republican race shapes up. For that matter Huntsman could possibly change his mind based on that as well.