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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., isnt going to test the waters for a presidential campaign in 2016. Hes going to jump right in and become the first Republican candidate to officially enter the race next month, according to MSNBC, which cited multiple sources close to the Kentucky senator.

This will be an official announcement, not an exploratory committee, a source said. Another added, Everything will happen pretty quickly over the next couple of weeks.

No potential candidate has announced a presidential run yet, but several, including retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have formed committees to gauge whether a run in 2016 is viable.

Paul is expected to announce he is running on April 7 in Louisville, Kentucky. The announcement is scheduled to be followed by a tour of early primary states New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada. The April 7 announcement date was chosen in part because the Senate will not be in session from March 30 to April 10. Also, other Republicans senators, like Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, are also flirting with a run, and putting out that date ensures that Paul wont be upstaged.

Part of the reason we let the dates out of bag to begin with was so other candidates wont plan on announcing that day, we are planting the flag with that date, a senior Paul official told MSNBC.

As Paul gears up to announce his presidential run, the Kentucky senator has a feather in his cap. He won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, late last month. The survey polls some of the most conservative members of the Republican Party.

Paul also had the tightest margin in hypothetical matchups between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and seven possible GOP nominees in a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday.

Clinton led Paul by 11 points, 54 percent to 43 percent. Clintons largest lead was against Ben Carson, at 56 percent to 40 percent. She also had 15-point leads against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (55 percent to 40 percent), Bush (55 percent to 40 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (55 percent to 40 percent.) Clinton was ahead by 13 points against Rubio (55 percent to 42 percent) and by 14 points against former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (55 percent to 41 percent.)

The poll, conducted between March 13 and March 15, interviewed 1,009 adults and had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.

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There were a number of surprising attendees at the high-tech geek fest that is SXSW Interactive: Grumpy Cat, the U.S. Postal Service, and Rand Paul, to name just a few.

Paul, the juniorU.S. senator fromKentucky and a presumptive presidential candidate, came to SXSW to sell himself to tech libertarian types. In an on-stage discussion with a Texas journalist, Paul pitched himself as the only (presumptive!) presidential candidate who would fight for civil liberties online.

But his opposition to government meddling also makes him an opponent of government regulations on net neutrality, he said. Paul has been making a big play for support from the tech community with trips to Silicon Valley and field offices coming toAustin and the Bay Area, but his net neutrality stancemay limit his geek appeal.

Paul said he would end the National Security Agencys mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden, and protect online privacy in general.

Im the only candidate who thinks that the NSA bulk collection of phone records should be shut down, Paul said. Im not against the NSA, I just think they need to obey the bill of rights. The governments wholesale collection of phone and email records, Paul said, violate the Fourth Amendments ban on generalized warrants.

But Paul also said that his anti-government vision requires him to oppose the FCCs plans to ensure net neutrality by regulating Internet service providers as utilities, akin to the way it regulates phone companies. The people in this room who have made money on the Internet, its because it is unregulated, Paul said. I dont want the government to screw up one of the greatest marketplaces weve ever had. (Need a briefing on net neutrality? Check out Jeff Hechts article Net Neutralitys Technical Troubles.)

Paul argued that a free-market approach to Internet access could provide the same benefits as net neutrality regulations. He suggested taking measures to break up the regional monopolies that ISPs often enjoy, saying that increased competition would lead to an abundance of options for Internet users. In Pauls vision, if a mega-corporation like Comcast asked content providers to pay more for faster transmission speeds, that content provider could just take its business elsewhere.

Its true that many of the worst effects of a non-neutral net are really symptoms of ISP monopolies, Parker Higgins, who works on net neutrality for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told IEEE Spectrum. But his group came to support the proposed FCC regulations, he said, because we thought it was necessary to preserve the free and open Internet at this moment in time.

While the EFF and others initially worried that rules developed for phone companies could by stifling when applied to the Internet, Higgins said, the FCC has largely addressed those concerns by adopting a provision known as forbearance. Essentially, this states that the FCC will not apply certain rules that arent relevant to Internet service providers.

That the proposed FCC regulations are necessary and beneficial is a pretty common point of view in the tech world, Higgins said. I imagine Rand Paul will have a hard time convincing people otherwise.

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