The web has become an increasingly important (and inexpensive) way for a candidate to get his/her message out, but it has a long way to go before it becomes a reliable means of measuring voter sentiment.
The article does debunk the claim of the RP camp that traditional polls drastically undercount his real level of national support.
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Ron Paul's campaign has alleged that his poor polling numbers are a result of pollsters under counting youth voters who only use cell phones (and have no landline for the pollsters to call). Even if this were the case, it's unlikely that the 13% of Americans who don't use a landline would differ in opinion from their traditional phone using brethren enough to swing the polls very much. And as I said in point one: the youth vote -- who account for most of that 13% -- is a small slice of the election pie.
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