Ron Paul’s MySpace Friends Increase Doubles Romney’s This Week

Ron Paul had the highest percentage of increase in his MySpace friends than any other Republican candidate this week according to techpresident.com. Paul’s 44.1% increase was double that of Romney’s, whose MySpace support increased by 22.1% this week, and more than double that of Jon McCain’s, whose increase stood at 19.7%. Currently McCain has the most MySpace friends with 30,416; Romney comes in second with 16,807, and Ron Paul is third in the GOP line-up with 13,634 friends.

NATIONAL REVIEW Ignores Ron Paul, Lists 9 Candidates in Debate Analysis

Even conservative National Review ignores Ron Paul — could it be that they are afraid that the REAL conservatives (i.e., the ones against big government) are catching on and defecting from the GOP en masse? Read the article by NRO’s David Frum:

The Party and the Candidates (Compelling title, I might add…)

Ron Paul Wildfire Spreading to Europe

Blogs from Germany are starting to get wind of the Ron Paul Media Blackout:

US-Präsidentschaftskandidat wird ignoriert

(Translation: “U.S. Presidential candidate Ignored”)

Vielen Dank, Deutschland.

Google Caught in the Act? "Ron Paul Effect" Goes from 40 to 14,000 Results in the Space of 5 Hours

Consider this: at 4:30 A.M. today Google search results for “ron paul effect” gave 40 results (yes, as in the two-digit number), with the original ABC Rick Klein article nowhere in sight. Five hours later, there are 14,000 results (yes, as in the 5-digit number) with the Klein article at the top spot.

Perhaps a more tech-savvy person could explain this phenomenon. Or could Google be joining ABC’s efforts to squash Ron Paul supporters’ voices?