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Texas congressman Ron Paul pointed his pen at his fellow conservatives at the New Hampshire presidential debates yesterday and won the Fox News text message poll, a day after winning the Maryland Republican Straw Vote, to the outrage of Fox mouthpiece, Sean Hannity.
Hannity, who clearly hates freedom and obviously believes that all elections and polls that aren't rigged by Karl Rove must be rigged, flat out accused the American people of cheating when they used their cell phones to text message their votes into Fox.
In the video above, Hannity seems threatened that the straight-talking constitutionalist (who voted more conservatively in office than any of his fellow debaters) is being embraced by the pubic. People like real conservatives and not fakes? Surely that can sit well with Hannity who has been an apologist for most of the scandals that the neocons have been at the heart of, the war in Iraq included.
Wednesday Paul won the 11-day Maryland Straw Poll, in a race that saw Rudy Giuliani come in second, actor Fred Thompson in third, and former governor Mitt Romney in fourth.
After the jump see what the Fox tv viewers, the voters in Maryland, and the Internet was all charged up about in last night's debates.
Ron Paul's answers in the New Hampshire GOP debates
