Can we please concentrate on winning Texas?

Sarge said:
It has been 28 years since we lived in TX, but would not the only one left running that is for gun rights still go big in Texas?

You might want to whittle the flyer down that compares the candidates just to the three running now. People would be more likely to read a smaller one and it would be cheaper to spread.

Use the prior Regan endorsement to our advantage on top of the flyer like they did in LA.

I hope he gets on TV there big time. Local TV is more likely to get his word out. Hit the ones where we might not be as strong to remind them what he has done for Texas.

Texas will be hard to canvas on foot.

Just some thoughts.

Good Luck
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I doubt people know that Ron Paul is pro gun rights and if they do, they probably believe their canidate of choice is just as pro gun as well.
 
Sey.Naci said:
Which candidate would Texans want the least, do you suppose?

I ask, because in addition to soliciting supporters who are FOR Ron Paul, you might also angle to get support from people who are AGAINST one candidate, more than being for anyone.

Of course, I'm hoping the answer to my question is John McCain; in other words., that there's an anti-McCain sentiment in Texas. If true, then it would be no lie at all to say that RP delegates would vote against him, right?
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You mean trying to get Huckabee supporters to back Paul in Texas?
 
I say Paul is for Texans and is for whoever the person you're canvassing is for, too. Thing is, we need to vote for Dr. Paul instead of voting for [their choice] because Dr. Paul will use this influence to 1) get a Texan in the VP slot and 2) change that candidate's mind about [their favorite issue].

Stooping to the MSM's level? I think not. They're using it to support neocons, we're using it to get a libertarian with clout into the convention. There is a fundamental difference there.
 
McCain wins among seniors who don't see sign waves. We know this by now.

Huckabee wins among evangelicals by his back-door endorsements.

Romney is the one the party is pushing, to beat McCain.

DFW is going to wage a hell of a fight, I promise you, I just want to make sure people are paying attention to what the fight is going to be. It's going to be brutal here. "We have lots of signs" is not going to win here anymore than anywhere else.
 
Michael Ingram said:
You mean trying to get Huckabee supporters to back Paul in Texas?
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No, my point is to find the people who are ANTI McCain and not particularly FOR anyone else. So, not Huck or Mitt or (obviously) McWar supporters.

We see all the time elections happening when people don't vote for a candidate but for the lesser of two evils, right?
 
GOOD 'OL BOY TEXANS WIN IN TEXAS AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!
 
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I'm in Texas right now, last weekend I canvassed and phoned people in my precinct roughly 140 people total I got results for.

I'd say realistically 5% are planning to vote for RP. The Problem with Texas is that you have democrats and Republicans all on 1 list, so it's almost every damn household. In Austin we are very strong, SA not bad, Victoria, strong. In Texas I'd say we'd easily get 10% of the vote, but we need to have 30% to win. That means we need to triple our support base. We need to go from 100,000 people to 300,000 people and we need to do it a few weeks. No amount of canvassing is going to get that done.

We need a very serious plan, and then we need to get on it immediately. I mean a shock the world plan. We will need every ardent supporter from every state to begin working immediately, tirelessly and insanely.

This task would be the hardest task you could ever accomplish. If we could pull it off it would be monumental.
 
Texas voters love texans. The Ron Paul campaign needs campaign televised commercials that are specially tailored to Texans. Many voters do not even know Ron Paul is a Texan and Texas congressman. Texans love feeling different or somehow set apart from the rest of the country and Ron Paul needs to fill that niche.
 
mavtek, what would it take to pull off spreading the notion that a vote for Paul is a vote for a Texan pulling for Texas issues at the convention, throwing his support to the best candidate on Texas issues, and possibly getting a VP slot? It seems to me that any number of local newspapers from Paris to El Paso would consider this message neither too controversial to print nor a bad idea at all.
 
mavtek said:
I'm in Texas right now, last weekend I canvassed and phoned people in my precinct roughly 140 people total I got results for.

I'd say realistically 5% are planning to vote for RP. The Problem with Texas is that you have democrats and Republicans all on 1 list, so it's almost every damn household. In Austin we are very strong, SA not bad, Victoria, strong. In Texas I'd say we'd easily get 10% of the vote, but we need to have 30% to win. That means we need to triple our support base. We need to go from 100,000 people to 300,000 people and we need to do it a few weeks. No amount of canvassing is going to get that done.

We need a very serious plan, and then we need to get on it immediately. I mean a shock the world plan. We will need every ardent supporter from every state to begin working immediately, tirelessly and insanely.

This task would be the hardest task you could ever accomplish. If we could pull it off it would be monumental.
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The problem is that in order to win some states we need a first placing showing somewhere. I believe if we can focus on winning 1 state, any state, it will have a domino effect. I think Washington and Oregon give us the best chance. We have seen that Ron Paul gets high percentages out here in the West and Washington and Oregon have many anti-war voters.
 
Shinerxx said:
Texas voters love texans. The Ron Paul campaign needs campaign televised commercials that are specially tailored to Texans. Many voters do not even know Ron Paul is a Texan and Texas congressman. Texans love feeling different or somehow set apart from the rest of the country and Ron Paul needs to fill that niche.
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THERE'S the point I've been making! Thank you--and send me a six of that full strength Bock, wouldya? At 3.2 it at least tastes like beer, but it sure ain't the same!
 
A flyer showing that he is the only pro gun choice candidate left would be where you educate them.

Go after the Texas gun clubs and dealers. Get their help to spread the flyer.

I seam to remember Texans like their weapons. That could get their attention.

I showed both our sons how to shoot while living there. They both wear their guns every day.

Doesn't every pickup have a gun rack in Texas? They did when I lived there.
 
wy the hell are you here then go home and leave us alone you are too -

RageAgainstDC said:
come on... get off of it already. what's 140 delegates? i appreciate the optimism, but that isn't even enough to make us the kingmaker, let alone get us the nomination. any continued effort in the republican primary is a waste of time and resources.
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wy the hell are you here then go home and leave us alone you are too -
 
SteveMartin said:
John McCain gets his voters from Diebold.
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Or people.

Both are programmed by the same conglomerate.

I really hope Ron campaigns nonstop for the next month in Texas and maybe Ohio for a bit.
Look at what one day trips to MT, ND, MN, and ME did for us. He has an entire month to focus on the 230 delegates in TX and OH.
 
morerocklesstalk said:
The problem is that in order to win some states we need a first placing showing somewhere. I believe if we can focus on winning 1 state, any state, it will have a domino effect. I think Washington and Oregon give us the best chance. We have seen that Ron Paul gets high percentages out here in the West and Washington and Oregon have many anti-war voters.
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Sorry, friend, but there aren't enough states left to do the domino thing--and I don't think there are enough delegates available through straw poll. We're looking for enough delegates to keep the three stooges from wrapping it up and give our man kingmaker power in the convention. Realistic scenario, at this point...

We'll take all the freedom he can swing to us, though! How 'bout you? We're concentrating on Texas in this thread because it's his home state and has a huge chunk of delegates. Unfortunately, it's not happening right away.
 
acptulsa said:
mavtek, what would it take to pull off spreading the notion that a vote for Paul is a vote for a Texan pulling for Texas issues at the convention, throwing his support to the best candidate on Texas issues, and possibly getting a VP slot? It seems to me that any number of local newspapers from Paris to El Paso would consider this message neither too controversial to print nor a bad idea at all.
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People in Texas listen to the radio and watch TV. We have a PAC here.

http://www.topicpac.org

We need an incredible amount of Television and Radio ads of all flavor going now. We need people to get a general exposure to this idea and then we need to follow it up with canvassers, 1000's of canvassers. Phone banking all the while these ads promoting Ron Paul for Texas are going. I've been in contact with some local affiliates to blanket TV with ads in the DFW area. for 3 days of ads on 1 network it's $14,000. Multiply that number by 210 Texas affiliates, lets say go for half of that and make it an easy 100 affiliates, 21 days, that's $9.8mill.

That's why it's daunting.
 
Sarge said:
A flyer showing that he is the only pro gun choice candidate left would be where you educate them.

Go after the Texas gun clubs and dealers. Get their help to spread the flyer.

I seam to remember Texans like their weapons. That could get their attention.

I showed both our sons how to shoot while living there. They both wear their guns every day.

Doesn't every pickup have a gun rack in Texas? They did when I lived there.
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I wish Dr. Paul would be more aggressive and simple about getting his stances out there in the debates. He is too smart for the average voter unfortunately and we need to define ourselves and our beliefs and contrast them against the other canidates' history on the topic.

He is too nice to McCain and never actually attaches his name to the 100 year statement. He just says a competitor or another canidate. We have to attach his name to this statement and repeat it again and again. A 100 years is the buzzword.
 
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