Three Cheers for Three Percent?

I was disappointed that Ron Paul only got 3% of the votes in yesterday’s Florida primary.  The trendline for his vote  percentages in most of elections since Iowa has been downward. 

I think Ron Paul is doing great in the debates and in broadcast interviews.  But his campaign seems gun-shy about stressing Paul’s stalwart position on the Iraq war.   Some of the ads the campaign is paying to run  have the punching power of wet noodles.   The Paul campaign has lately made far more effort stressing Paul’s devotion to veterans than his opposition to the Iraq war.

Did the dropout of Dennis Kucinich from the presidential race end any chance for a fervent delivery of the antiwar message to the American people?