Ron Paul Wins Another GOP Fox Debate - Hannity Denies It

FreeMarketNews.Com
October 21, 2007

Fox News media star Sean Hannity once again contradicted a clear victory by presidential candidate Ron Paul of Fox’s own post-debate poll in the aftermath of Sunday night’s Fox-sponsored GOP presidential debate. The post-debate poll showed that Ron Paul won with 34 percent of the viewer vote.

At one point, with results showing Ron Paul winning the informal “cell phone” poll, Hannity burst out with a definitive statement, “Ron Paul did not win the debate tonight,” even though the poll showed that he was winning by a wide margin. Hannity also said bluntly that Ron Paul supporters were “stacking” the poll. This is the same sort of statement he made during a previous Fox sponsored debate which Ron Paul also won.

Hannity later interviewed Ron Paul and asked if he would support Hillary Clinton. He also asked a question that seemed to imply that Ron Paul sided with one fifth of Democrats polled who hoped the US would lose the Iraq war. He spent a good deal of time investigating whether Ron Paul would support the Republican candidate for president, if it were not to be him. Ron Paul, however, declined to provide a blanket endorsement.

Ron Paul also indicated, during the same post-debate TV interview that the reason he was not scoring well in polling was because the pollers were not “including” him. He also said the campaign had a good deal of work to do to raise his profile, and that he intended to spend down at least some of the $5 million he had raised in the third quarter and funds he expected to raise in the 4th quarter – an amount he seemed to imply might come to about $10 million.

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