15th most influential person in the world: Ron Paul

[HalfLotus]

The good doctor currently stands at #15 in the 2010 Time poll. Final results on the 29th, April.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...976160,00.html

During the 2008 presidential election, this 74-year-old Texas libertarian became a surprising cult hit with the college crowd, raising millions of dollars online. But all that dough didn't help Paul at the polls: he didn't win a single state, and his support peaked with 25% of the vote in Montana. Then came the Tea Party movement, built around the libertarian-leaning ideas of small government, lower taxes and a fiery opposition to deficit spending. Suddenly, Paul is all the rage. In February he won the Conservative Political Action Conference's straw poll — usually a good indicator of which candidate the Republican base favors for the next presidential nomination.

Paul also came in second in the SRLC straw poll yesterday, lost to Romney by one vote. Romney did his usual bussing people in and paying for their tickets. Of speakers at the conference (Romney was not), Paul dominated.

[BeBMan]

1 Yu-Na Kim 94 277860
2 Lady Gaga 88 271690
3 Rain 96 207232
4 Adam Lambert 97 179850
5 Han Han 97 155980
6 Conan O'Brien 93 121392
7 Sachin Tendulkar 96 107273
8 Mir-Hossein Mousavi 96 73517
9 Shah Rukh Khan 95 68551
10 Robert Pattinson 88 57892
11 Dana White 88 48828
12 Penny Arcade guys 92 40841
13 Susan Boyle 95 33173
14 Neil Patrick Harris 89 34256
15 Ron Paul 93 24299
16 Roger Federer 97 21992
17 Liu Xiaobo 97 19576
18 Barack Obama 76 23841
19 Rachael Ray 91 17161
20 Neil Gaiman 89 15679
21 Elton John 77 17904
22 Apolo Ohno 90 13692
23 Joannie Rochette 91 13166
24 Chelsea Handler 86 13824
25 Hillary Clinton 66 16816
26 Beyoncé 77 14159
27 Meryl Streep 95 11262
28 Kanye West 79 12558
29 Manny Pacquiao 91 10552
30 Andrew Breitbart 88 10255
31 Stephen Colbert 86 9875
32 Jon Stewart 87 9446
33 Michelle Obama 67 11997
34 Taylor Swift 71 11311
35 Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan 89 8944
36 Sarah Palin 28 26052
37 Sandra Bullock 65 11061
38 Cristiano Ronaldo 86 8204
39 Zahra Rahnavard 94 7234
40 Temple Grandin 92 7250
41 Olympia Snowe 92 7148
42 Saad Hariri 91 6133
43 James Cameron 54 10364
44 Ashton Kutcher 74 7380
45 Ellen DeGeneres 79 6929
46 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 91 5763
47 Emma Watson 84 6235
48 Nancy Pelosi 54 9346
49 The Lost creators 76 6017
50 Jeff Bridges 45 10015
51 Oprah Winfrey 67 6627
52 Kaká 86 4720
53 Glenn Beck 46 8442
54 Preity Zinta 89 4375
55 Manmohan Singh 84 4382
56 Bill Clinton 70 5120
57 Steve Jobs 82 4359
58 Cheryl Cole 77 4584
59 Rahul Singh 86 3716
60 Seth MacFarlane 67 4697
61 Nicolas Sarkozy 45 6956
62 Shirin Ebadi 93 3324
63 Lea Michele 80 3362
64 Betty White 82 3258
65 Bo Xilai 69 3830
66 Pete Cashmore 72 3536
67 Kathryn Bigelow 67 3510
68 Peter Molyneux 63 3712
69 Bill and Melinda Gates 84 2765
70 Banksy 77 2984
71 Tiger Woods 40 5607
72 Quentin Tarantino 80 2769
73 Scott Brown 46 4705
74 Clint Eastwood 83 2597
75 Rachel Maddow 72 2948
76 Thierry Henry 79 2467
77 Jane Lynch 77 2538
78 Snooki 18 10212
79 Roger Ailes 46 3934
80 Lindsey Vonn 38 4674
81 Marissa Mayer 71 2482
82 Annise Parker 78 2246
83 Simon Cowell 61 2827
84 Rahm Emanuel 56 3076
85 George Clooney 65 2620
86 J.J. Abrams 77 2189
87 Muammar Gaddafi 34 4964
88 Mo'Nique 45 3452
89 Zach Galifianakis 76 2045
90 Alec Baldwin 52 2987
91 Dennis Crowley 60 2532
92 Ricky Gervais 76 1951
93 Paul Volcker 50 2960
94 Matthew Weiner 66 2214
95 Chetan Bhagat 74 1857
96 Andy Samberg 74 1827
97 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 82 1566
98 Drew Pinsky 70 1818
99 Dave Eggers 49 2580
100 Tim Gunn 72 1747
101 Drew Brees 73 1705
102 Billy Graham 47 2530
103 Robin Li 72 1657
104 Sonia Sotomayor 69 1710
105 Arne Duncan 50 2295
106 Jay Leno 12 9457
107 Suzanne Collins 80 1373
108 Amy Poehler 64 1690
109 Meghan McCain 49 2219
110 Arnold Schwarzenegger 60 1789
111 Jimmy Fallon 57 1880
112 Warren Buffett 77 1385
113 David Chang 34 3088
114 Kristen Wiig 61 1704
115 Grant Achatz 63 1638
116 Gabourey Sidibe 60 1683
117 Marc Jacobs 65 1502
118 Jenny McCarthy 39 2500
119 Mitt Romney 39 2284
120 Mehmet Oz 69 1286
121 Vivienne Westwood 61 1446
122 David Boies & Theodore Olson 66 1286
123 Greg Mortenson 75 1095
124 Tomoaki Kato 81 998
125 T Bone Burnett 39 2088
126 Judd Apatow 69 1156
127 Michael Pollan 75 1057
128 Dan Coudreaut 33 2416
129 Kathleen Merrigan 77 1027
130 Hugo Chávez 51 1529
131 Eric Cantor 51 1495
132 Prince 56 1374
133 Rupert Murdoch 55 1354
134 Benjamin Netanyahu 59 1252
135 Neill Blomkamp 74 998
136 Jerry Seinfeld 54 1361
137 Bradley Cooper 60 1196
138 Jimmy Kimmel 67 1069
139 Zoe Saldana 62 1135
140 Timothy Geithner 50 1406
141 Jason Reitman 63 1116
142 Angela Merkel 73 945
143 Ben Stiller 63 1096
144 Anna Wintour 64 1060
145 Wang Qishan 61 1097
146 Atul Gawande 63 1022
147 Stanley McChrystal 63 1014
148 Catherine Ashton 36 1689
149 Jean-Max Bellerive 78 753
150 Tim Westergren 63 858
151 Richard Goldstone 74 724
152 Danica Patrick 58 914
153 Elon Musk 72 725
154 Tim White 49 1058
155 Zaha Hadid 72 714
156 Ben Bernanke 54 943
157 Didier Drogba 55 888
158 Elizabeth Warren 62 759
159 Johanna Sigurdardottir 56 825
160 Samuel Alito, Jr. 59 767
161 Christine Lagarde 70 622
162 Patti Smith 63 672
163 Diane Nelson 62 681
164 Jasper Schuringa 63 654
165 Paul Farmer 54 761
166 John Madden 47 863
167 Mike Mullen 52 775
168 Kim Clijsters 51 775
169 Carlos Slim Helú 57 689
170 Bristol Palin 15 2518
171 J.T. Wang 63 600
172 Michael Lewis 45 846
173 Lee Kuan Yew 65 586
174 Bode Miller 43 875
175 Joe Lieberman 24 1542
176 Ferran Adrià 46 793
177 Serena Williams 48 735
178 Renzo Piano 62 550
179 Dominique Strauss-Kahn 62 548
180 Akio Toyoda 48 681
181 Cory Booker 59 535
182 Harvey Weinstein 49 650
183 Salam Fayyad 60 518
184 Joseph (Sepp) Blatter 49 622
185 Michael Sherraden 60 477
186 Yukio Hatoyama 46 612
187 Jaron Lanier 57 483
188 Evan Bayh 29 909
189 Elizabeth Gilbert 44 607
190 Mark Carney 57 470
191 Lisa Jackson 54 488
192 Lawrence Summers 52 507
193 Tidjane Thiam 58 447
194 Edna Foa 55 468
195 Mary Karr 54 461
196 Lloyd Blankfein 42 564
197 Alex Rodriguez 29 738
198 Anwar al-Awlaki 27 811
199 Peter Orszag 32 663
200 Jeff Zucker 9 2294

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[giblets]

I'm sure a figure skater is the most influential person in the world.

Lady Gaga is a close second. Way more important than Obama.

[Bosh]

Oh Korean netizens is there any poll you can't freep?

[Guynemer]

Yes, this is a clearly scientific poll.



God, I love Paultards.

[GePap]

I am so ashamed not to know who five of the top ten most influential people in the world are

How could I not know everyting about Robert Pattinson??

[giblets]

Remember, there's still time to vote in this thing.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It's Time magazine- an iconic US publication. And at number 7 is a cricketer.

I think we're seeing cultural assimilation at work.

[Wezil]

I don't know who #1 is.

I stopped reading at #2.

What a joke.

[Elok]

Yes, I'm sure the Korean pop star Rain is far more influential than the President of the United States.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Neil Gaiman is at #20. The nerds pushed their own agenda as well.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think merit a spot on this year's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The person with the most votes will be on the TIME 100 list revealed on Thursday, April 29.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...#ixzz0kok0hXJR

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[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

And we're supposed to be impressed that Ron Paul made it to 15 on that list? You could scribble a crude smiley face and pin it to a mop, and it'd probably make the top 20.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Looking at the 14 people above Ron Paul, this isn't something you should be all that proud of. Couldn't even beat Susan f'ing Boyle.

[HalfLotus]

Yes, I'm sure the Korean pop star Rain is far more influential than the President of the United States.

Obama hasn't done anything other than maintain the status quo. Oh, he was handed a Nobel Prize on a silver platter.

OTOH, Paul spawned the Tea Party movement which may be the most significant political movement in the US since civil rights.