Ron Paul a “frontrunner”?

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is far and away the most popular on the Internet. Yet, despite his massive online lead, the mainstream media has barely managed to cover him at all.

On 5/14 and 5/15, Ron Paul was the #1 most-searched-for term on blog search engine Technorati. On post-debate polls on ABC.com and MSNBC.com, Ron Paul was voted the winner of the debate by a wide margin.

In the past week, Ron Paul’s website received more traffic than those of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards (Obama only recently took the lead by a hair). His videos are among the most-viewed on YouTube and popular social news site Digg.com is literally choked with Ron Paul-themed articles and comments…[Mark Jeffrey--Huffington Post read more]

Over at Coble’s blog I said: “Unless Ron Paul wins, which he won’t, the GOP is pretty much dead in the water.” Now, I’m starting to rethink that. So, can he win the Republican nod? I’m in a state of shock; I actually find this somewhat exciting–but I’m still shocked. Will Ron Paul become the new face of the GOP, and if so, what will this do to the GOP? Without a doubt this will be a historic election.