Wired.com Corrected Ron Paul Spam Story

From our previous story - Giuliani Adviser Allegedly Pays Wired to DISCREDIT Ron Paul 

USA Daily -  Wired.com corrected a spam story about Ron Paul's campaign and clarified that there has been no evidence to suggest that Ron Paul’s campaign was involved with spamming.

The story quotes Gary Warner, the University of Alabama at Birmingham's director of research in computer forensics:

"This is clearly a criminal act in support of a campaign, which has been committed with or without their knowledge, The question is, will we see more and more of this, or will this bring shame to the campaigns and will they make clear that this is not a form of acceptable behavior by their supporters?" 

It should be noted that Paul’s campaign has stated that it had nothing to do with it and that it is possible that the spamming itself could have as easily of come from another campaign or anyone seeking to discredit DR. Paul.

The article also states,

“The finding is significant, because Paul's online support -- as gauged by blog mentions, friends on social-networking sites such as MySpace and popularity in online polls -- has garnered him wide mainstream print and television coverage, despite his relatively poor performance in offline polling.”

Wired.com has also reported that Chris Barton of McAfee also discovered the spam.

While somebody without authorization may have spammed either on behalf of Ron Paul or in a futile attempt to injure his campaign. Several indicators suggest that Paul’s online and offline support is real.

Paul’s campaign has started airing TV spots in New Hampshire and according to Youtube this commercial has been viewed 233,000 times.

The Washington Post, which has one of the largest internet news sites, recently said that Washington Post traffic goes up when they write Ron Paul articles.

Another online indicator, Google Trends, although indirect, still suggest that Paul’s support is very real. Google Trends shows that Ron Paul’s name is searched far more than any other candidate running for office.

Last week USA Daily learned that Google Analytics shows that Ron Paul’s campaign website attracted close to a million people over the last month.

Ron Paul has demonstrated a tremendous level of support across the country generating crowds over a thousand people in various states. Paul raised over 5 million in the last quarter and has raised over 2.6 million in this quarter which still has two months to go. The money a candidate raises is more important than poll numbers.

Ron Paul was even well received by a mainstream audience on Jay Leno Tuesday night. The audience cheered as he spoke about reforming the monetary system, eliminating federal income taxes, ending the Iraq war, and protecting civil liberties. Paul told leno"Yes there's I risk I can win".

Paul has generated crowds, excitement, money, and has done well in several straw polls. Even MSNBC's Joe Scarborough commented on Paul’s grass roots support and of seeing home made signs as he brought his son home from college. He also commented on how his son told him everybody at his college was supporting Paul.

The only place he has not performed well are in media generated polls which in this election may be proven a lagging and inaccurate indicator of a candidate’s support.