Because I Said So…

Long shot presidential candidate Ron Paul regularly pulls in large crowds of supporters, but it looks like they don’t rally for him at the polls.  Case in point?  Paul’s UT Campus rally last Saturday.

According to the Daily Texan, around 4,000 students and supporters stood in front of the UT Tower Saturday to hear him speak.  But at the on-campus Early Vote location at the Flawn Academic Center–within eyesight of the enormous orange wave of coeds in “Hook ‘em, Horns” t-shirts–only 54 people voted for the Texas congressman that day.

Here’s a graph from Burnt Orange Report showing the disparity of voters to supporters:

So he only gets around 50 votes per 4,000 people.  Yes, it is only 1.25 percent, but last time I checked 1 is more than none.  I am sure that is the exact same logic the Paul maniacs follow…  Looks like the number of YouTube hits you get is not directly proportional to the number of votes you will carry.  Who knew?

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