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The Return of Ron Paul
The GOP candidate you forgot about is back on the trail in Pennsylvania.
By E.J. Kalafarski and Chadwick Matlin
Updated Thursday, April 3, 2008, at 2:42 PM ET
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After a month and a half off the trail, Ron Paul is back in action. We last saw Paul in his home state of Texas rallying University of Texas students in Austin. But since then, he slunk away from the presidential circuit to fight off a primary challenger in his home district on March 4. He won that battle but lost the presidency to John McCain in the meantime. While Paul was off the trail, McCain made 33 stops and reached the number of delegates needed to become the Republican nominee.
But that doesn't mean Paul is done campaigning. He's in Pennsylvania this week and next for four speeches and rallies at colleges in the state. Despite John McCain's nominee status, Paul has not suspended or withdrawn his campaign, so Map the Candidates will keep on tracking him—even if he disappears for another month and a half.
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E.J. Kalafarski is co-founder of Map the Candidates and is in the master's program at Brown University. Chadwick Matlin is Slate's visiting Dutko fellow and co-founder of Map the Candidates.
Article URL: www.slate.com/id/2175817/
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