David Weigel: Ron Paul's waning influence in the Republican party

"Wake up!" shouts Aimee Allen. "Rise and shine! Rise and shine!" The sun is actually setting outside the 10,000-seat Target Centre in Minneapolis, but the crowd is a sea of fist-pumps and cheers. Allen is about to play her selectively-targeted hit song Revolution, an anthem for Ron Paul's campaign that debuted a bit after the first primaries and has filtered through the speakers at many of the ex-presidential... [read full story]