Ron Paul Effect | Write-In Votes | Third-Party Candidacy | The Daily Caller: Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is steadily gaining momentum just three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, and the latest Des Moines Register poll has him in second place with 18 percent support.
While the Republican primary field seems to have narrowed to a race between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Paul is holding steady with enough support to suggest an eventual independent candidacy run.
That potential spoiler role has Paul’s staffers talking tough, and other conservatives’ tongues wagging.
Paul has already run for president as a third-party candidate once, in the 1988 presidential election. Fox News analyst Juan Williams wrote in November that an independent Paul candidacy “could be the biggest, most consequential third-party candidacy in American history. Yes, one that is even bigger than Ross Perot’s candidacy was in the ’90s.”
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