How come Ron Paul is big online but seems to be lagging in national polls?

Foreign Policy. Paul is the man when it comes to his domestic ideas for the country, but he seriously lacks foreign policy knowledge. If Paul was president, we would be attacked again. But hey, at least we could get high legally!

Because national polls that are published are not real data but manipulation by the media to get the candidate that they want. I was asked questions the other day over the phone about would I vote for Obama or Romney? Ron Paul and the other candidates including the current leader joke Newt Gingrich weren't even mentioned as choices.

In 2008, in the New Hampshire primaries, Obama was leading Hillary Clinton by 9-14 percentage points in multiple polls -and- in exit polls. But, Hillary won by 5 or 6 percentage points. Polls are only reliable to a certain degree. It's about organization and mobilizing your base to get out to vote

Media blackouts, propaganda.

Sad reality is that Ron Paul is a threat to everything Washington represents and it's interests.

He's against the war, the federal reserve handouts, all the civil liberty violations and mass spending and printing sprees.

He also believes in a free market which is a threat to the monopolies that banks, oil, and wall street run.

Seriously how many people do you know actually have been polled? I bet not many. I am 39 years old and still haven't been polled. As many newspapers, news stations and polling companies you would have thought I would have been polled at least once. Don't believe the polls but believe the vote counts.

He's doing pretty well in polls, but overall, conservatives don't like him. They can't get over the ideas of letting people regulate their own bodies, and letting them marry who they want to marry. Also, they want to stay in the middle east forever.

Because the nationwide are not true, biased, and they get changed by biased media news stations. Online you have raw people who can't get their opinions changed by media people.

People on line actually read and pay attention to what is going on, the people they call go on with their life and wait to see what happens, they do no homework on their decision

Because no one controls the internet, at least not yet.

There is no gravity online.