Sarc, The humor arises from putting someone diametrically opposed to the policies of two people rated at or near the top (bottom) on any scale tracking the most liberal votes on every major issue (when they find time to vote) into the same poll, at least for me.  Having said that, I never saw Paul as a serious contender for the nomination and I did take a close look at his positions.  I think that time will show there was some kind of inflation techniques used by his supporters.  I think the technology is there and I think every candidate's campaign uses it to try and skew things.  

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

Ron Paul is a "do as I say, not as I do" porker:

Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul — who is campaigning as a critic of congressional overspending — has revealed that he is requesting $400 million worth of earmarks this year.

The Wall Street Journal reports Paul's office says those requests include $8 million for the marketing of wild American shrimp and $2.3 million to pay for research into shrimp fishing.

A spokesman says, "Reducing earmarks does not reduce government spending, and it does not prohibit spending upon those things that are earmarked. What people who push earmark reform are doing is they are particularly misleading the public — and I have to presume it's not by accident."

Sarc, Here's what I found on robots, when I went looking for info after this came out the first time:

The University of Alabama-Birmingham's computer forensics research department, which collects spam messages as part of its Spam Data Mining for Law Enforcement Applications project, analyzes hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages per month. When it began getting bombarded with e-mails about Ron Paul immediately following a Republican debate on TV, the lab began to examine their origin and saw consistent patterns that it described as "disturbing."

The e-mails originated from IPs all over the world, but researchers' suspicions were aroused when they found that the e-mails purported to come from different countries than their IPs indicated. Messages claiming to come from the US were actually coming from Korea, for example, and messages claiming to come from Italy were actually coming from the US. The pattern showed that the messages were clearly not coming from Ron Paul's official campaign, but rather illegitimate spam operations and botnets.

"We've seen many previous e-mails reported as spam from other campaigns or parties, but when we've investigated them, they all were sent from the legitimate parties," department director Gary Warner said in a statement. In contrast, the Ron Paul messages clearly came from a number of other parties attempting to spoof where they came from. Paul's campaign may run afoul of the authorities as a result of these e-mails. Warner believes that the messages may violate the CAN-SPAM Act  due to their deceptive sending practices.

The Ron Paul camp, however, wants to make sure the world knows it's not involved in the spam. "This is the first I've heard about this situation," Ron Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told Wired. "If it is true, it could be done by a well-intentioned yet misguided supporter or someone with bad intentions trying to embarrass the campaign. Either way, this is independent work, and we have no connection."

I'm not saying UAB might not be a hotbed of liberal kooks looking to trash a GOP candidate or that Paul knew there were people out there doing this, but there is some info out there on people who were spamming polls for Pauls' benefit.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

If Bozell's not at all related to CNC/MRC. Good luck making that point! ;)

And Mr. Sheffield has claimed "no agenda" in past busts I've done on these entirely-meaningless polls. It seems you, Dee Bunk, and I all agree on NB's agenda, which you described quite-well, but it seems the NB masthead somehow differs, no? I'm entitled to mock back when they try to mock us, so I did, and IMO it's workin'.
JMR

If this is winning, I think I'd rather lose...