Ron Paul Leads ALL ‘08 Candidates With One-Third of Military Contributions for Q2

Posted by Eric F. Langborgh on 18 Jul 2007 at 07:09 am

It turns out that the news I reported in this post is even better now that someone has looked at all the contribution data from military personnel and military veterans. Ron Paul is ahead of all candidates for the White House in this area. Again, the point here isn’t the total amount of money raised so much, but the percentage of support from military families. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the one candidate who opposed the Iraq war from the start on philosophical and constitutional grounds would not have a following among the military. But Ron Paul is bucking conventional wisdom in all areas of this campaign, and now we know he is doing it here, too:

Military contributions for Q2

Ron Paul — – 32.94%
John McCain — – 22.99%
Hillary Clinton — – 13.92%
Bill Richardson — – 7.03%
Barack Obama — – 6.85%
Mitt Romney — – 4.68%
Rudy Giuliani — – 3.06%
John Edwards — – 2.97%
Tom Tancredo — – 1.85%
Duncan Hunter — – 1.32%
Joe Biden — – 1.06%
Mike Huckabee — – 0.20%
Mike Gravel — – 0.09%
Sam Brownback — – 0.07%
Dennis Kucinich — – 0%
Tommy Thompson — – 0%
Chris Dodd — – 0%
Jim Gilmore — – 0%
John Cox — – 0%