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The Ron Paul Girl, aka Liv, is a self-described "wannabe actress and aspiring filmmaker" who has created several popular viral videos supporting Ron Paul for President of the United States in 2008. The phenomenon has been covered by CNN, Fox News, USA Today and other mainstream media. Most strikingly, the Ron Paul campaign has acknowledged the Ron Paul Girl and included the video clip on the campaign website. One of the most popular independent video producers on Metacafe, Liv has used her unique brand of sexy comedy to bring Ron Paul's Presidential campaign to hundreds of thousands of online video viewers. Liv is 24 years old and is from Los Angeles, California
The Original Ron Paul Girl Video
Uploaded to Metacafe in August of 2007, Liv's in the Ron Paul Girl series has been seen by over 250,000 people, as well as having been shown on Fox News and CNN, instantly catapulting the Ron Paul Girl to a prominent position in Ron Paul's grassroots Internet election campaign.
Ron Paul Girl: Worker Bee
Released just a few weeks after the first Ron Paul Girl video, focused on Ron Paul's opposition to the welfare state, and caused controversy by Liv's referring to Hillary Clinton supporters as " stupid". Though this video achieved less popularity than the first, Liv touched a nerve among many Ron Paul supporters through a blog post in which she revealed that she herself had been raised on welfare and that her opposition to federally-supported programs of this kind stemmed directly from this experience
Ron Paul Girl: Register Now
Having solidified her status as one of the most visible Ron Paul advocates on the Internet, Liv began to use her position to draw attention to specific campaign objective with the release of her third video, . In this video, Liv urged non-Republicans to consider registering Republican for the primary election, in order to help Ron Paul get his party's nomination. While it is impossible to gauge exactly how much impact this video had, it was viewed by tens of thousands of people leading up to the key primary state of New Hampshire's voter registration deadline. Many believe that a strong showing in New Hampshire is critical to the success Ron Paul's campaign.
Great Moments in U.S. History
The in the Ron Paul Girl series, like the one that preceded it, was designed to draw attention to a very specific campaign objective, in this case the 5th of November fundraising drive that raised a record 4.2 million dollars for Ron Paul's campaign in just 24 hours. Liv's video, which included humorous dramatizations of Paul Revere's Ride and the Boston Tea Party, achieved enormous viral popularity, having been viewed by over 190,000 people on Metacafe, as well as tens of thousands of additional people on Youtube, in the week leading up to November 11th, 2007, and has been credited as one of the key factors responsible for the success of this campaign.
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