Big Head DC hears that a young Ron Paul volunteer crashed the campaign’s GOTV database just two days before the Iowa caucuses — which means that Paul won his ten percent with absolutely no organized get-out-the-vote operation. The kid, we hear, hasn’t shown up on the Paul campaign again, and he presumably hasn’t been invited back.

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Mitt Romney accused Ron Paul of not understanding Islamic Jihadism, and Rudy Giuliani said Paul’s foreign policy is flawed during tonight’s ABC News debate. Paul’s war opinions became center stage many times during the proceedings.

Paul, who has been left out of a forum to take place on FOX News tomorrow evening, become a last minute addition to the lineup after the ABC News network received criticism for initially excluding the GOP congressman.

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“The first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary serves a national purpose by giving all candidates an equal opportunity on a level playing field,” Fergus Cullen, head of the New Hampshire Republican Party, said in a statement released Saturday regarding the network’s decision to part ways with his organization. “Only in New Hampshire do lesser known, lesser funded underdogs have a fighting chance to establish themselves as national figures. Consistent with that tradition, we believe all recognized major candidates should have an equal opportunity to participate in pre-primary debates and forums.”

As Big Head DC reported earlier, Cullen felt that Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter should be included in a GOP candidate forum scheduled for Sunday evening to be broadcast on FOX News. Network heads, however, felt differently, so they broke ties with the state GOP today.

“The New Hampshire Republican Party believes Congressmen Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter should be included in the FOX forum on Sunday evening,” Cullen said. ”Our mutual efforts to resolve this difference have failed.”

Concluded Cullen: “While we understand that FOX News continues to move forward it is with regret, the New Hampshire Republican Party hereby withdraws as a partner in this forum.”

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Big Head DC hears that Fergus Cullen, head of the New Hampshire GOP, has caved to demands to include Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter in FOX News Channel’s Sunday evening forum, and has therefore withdrawn from the partnership the state Republican Party had previously secured with the network.

Big Head DC contacted FOX News to find out whether the forum was still in play and we’re told it will continue as scheduled with Huckabee, Romney, McCain, Giuliani and Thompson, serving as the last exchange between the candidates before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

Moderated by Chris Wallace, the 90-minute forum is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET live on FNC. David Rhodes, Vice President of News for Fox News Channel said in a statement, “We look forward to presenting a substantive forum which will serve as the first program of its kind this election season.”

UPDATE: New Hampshire GOP Strikes Back at FOX News

Earlier: FOX News to Host Special GOP Candidate Forum

Baltimore Sun Confirms Big Head DC’s Ron Paul Scoop

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“I wanted to write the item anyway but putting his name in the hed was definitely a traffic ploy,” Portfolio media writer Jeff Bercovici tells Gawker regarding his recent item that re-hashed Big Head DC’s telling of Ron Paul’s exclusion from the New Hampshire FOX News forum.

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