Not only did Dr. Paul inspire activists across the country, bring patriotic Americans to their feet cheering, and wipe up the stage with his opponents at the May 3rd debate--he also sent his official website's traffic through the roof.

Check out this embedded chart from Alexa on our news page. (It refused to get along nicely with our blog software.) Comparing the Paul site with those of Romney and Rudy (McCain's hardly worth mentioning), Dr. Paul surpassed his competitors on May 2nd, and by the 5th he had three times their daily reach.

And, finally, ABC News was finally forced to do something in the realm of the right thing. While the author quotes a gadfly musing that the "Ron Paul Effect" could be caused by "just one very savvy supporter who's able to vote several thousand times," we know now that they can't ignore the news forever.

One down, several hundred to go.