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recent national Zogby poll found that Ron Paul dominated in a bi-partisan 'blind' match-up with GOP front runners in nearly every demographic, including most religious groups.
That proved especially true amongst racial demographics. Ron Paul's lead over Giuliani exceeded 20 percentage points in some categories including African Americans, who make up 11% of the electorate, and Asian voters, who make up 2%.
Ron Paul even held a sharp lead in 'White' and 'Hispanic' demographics (in which racial voting trends are usually less cohesive), pulling 31.5% and 34% to Giuliani's 20% and 17.2%, respectively.
Furthermore, concerns that Ron Paul isn't reaching women voters were offset by poll numbers showing 34.7% support from female voters in the 'blind' poll as compared with only 30.8% support from male voters. Giuliani, by comparison, pulled only 17% and 20.3% support in the same poll.
While Giuliani had a greater concentration of support amongst the Republican core, Ron Paul demonstrated his potential for broad-based support from all sectors of the political spectrum, including about 26% of Independents with no direct party loyalty.
Consider that Dr. Paul leads the GOP candidates in support from such demographic groups as 'Born Again' (29.6%), 'Married' (30.9%) and
'NASCAR fans' (32.5%).
Yet he does equally well if not better in seemingly contradictory groups such as 'Not Born Again' (36.5%), 'Catholic' (30.4%) and 'Civil Union' (39.2%). Non-NASCAR fans matched NASCAR support at 32.9%.
Those who make $35-50k have nearly the same support for Paul at 34.2% as those making $75-100k (at 34.6%). Those who make less than $25k show even higher support at 47.6%.
A third of Armed Forces families support Paul in the GOP comparison (see chart two places above) and some 32.1% of non-military families also selected Ron Paul in the blind poll. A related poll question found that
49.1% of respondents support a candidate who would 'immediately withdraw' troops from Iraq.
More poll respondents in the South (35.1%) and West (36.5%) favored Paul in the polls, but the Texas Congressman still won more supporters than his GOP rivals in the East (28.3%) and Central (31.8%) United States regions.
Thus Ron Paul shows wide and varied support for his policies which include ending the Iraq War, injecting sound monetary policy and upholding the Constitution. The poll showed a very favorable response for Paul across the political spectrum and suggests he could do well in a general election and in open-primary states where Independents, Moderates and Democrats could support him in droves.
Indeed, broad-based support shows Ron Paul could be a true 'uniter,' because, as Paul often claims, "the message of liberty does not divide" (though, it is clear, the current political climate certainly does).
Zogby analyst Fritz Wenzel pointed out in an interview about the poll that Ron Paul is moving "in the right direction" at a time when "other candidates are not moving." Wenzel said Paul "has the momentum and a lot of money in his pocket."
Poll numbers from the 'blind-bio' poll conducted by Zogby America of Nationwide Likely Voters for 11/14/07 thru 11/17/07. Sample size 1009. Read full poll at Zogby.
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