Edited sentence: As of May 15th 2007, following the second Republican debate at the University of South Carolina, Ron Paul won the debate by a landside based on the vote of the people, and again invoked rath by news media outlets such as the Rupert Murdoch owned Fox News.As of May 8th 2007, following the first Republican debate at the Reagan library, Ron Paul has been winning online polls conducted by major news organizations, and became the Republican front runner.The mainstream media has been quick to try and minimize Ron Paul as a second tier candidate, even though he has won most of the polls.This is evidenced in the mainstream's biased feelings towards Ron Paul as they, like MSNBC and Fox News, have purposely removed his name from many of their polling results after he has been shown to win