Photos: Ron Paul speaks in Anchorage

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Attendees wait outside the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage before presidential candidate Ron Paul gave a speech on March 4, 2012.

Ron Paul filled a room (and then some) at a rally in Fairbanks in the early part of March 4, 2012, where the campaign estimated 1,100 people showed up to hear him speak in the leadup to the Super Tuesday primaries.

Later that evening, at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage, some of the 1,000 available seats sat empty at the beginning of Paul's speech, but by the time he was done, the crowd was stacked a half-dozen deep in a standing-room-only area in the back.

The Anchorage supporters were a strange mishmash, seemingly from all walks of life, and a testament to the 76-year-old Paul's own unusual approach to politics. Many people wore T-shirts supporting Paul -- or bashing Barack Obama -- and others carried campaign or homemade signs, which they waved the moment Paul took the stage and introduced his wife, who had come along, as well as one of his 18 grandchildren.

During his Anchorage speech, Paul hit on the key points of his campaign platform, touching on topics like fiscal and foreign policy, and the need to reduce the size of government and increase individual liberties.

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