DMR Poll is AWESOME News.

[kill the banks]

frankly I view mitt's poll with a discount ... I just do not see a guy who did not campaign there until last minute having hard support ... frankly I see it as soft ... let's see if they come to vote ... no way IMO ... push on

 

[LeJimster]

WE need to be going after Santorum. The CAMPAIGN needs to be going after Santorum. The other candidates don't have the money or resources. If we finish behind him we're screwed. This is red alert time.

He's an annoying pest sure, but no I don't agree the campaign has to go after him. They need to continue doing what they've been doing and we need to continue to Phone from home, donate and canvass for Ron. The most important thing Iowa supporters can do is to get as many Democrats who are disenchanted with Obama to come out and vote for Ron Paul. Even those who like Obama can be convinced to vote for Ron Paul as he is in favor of ending all the wars.

If the independents and democrats turn out in BIG numbers for Ron. We can walk away with the win. If they sit at home because they refuse to vote for a GOP candidate, it's over.

 

[Guitarzan]

We need a neg ad out tomorrow as bad as serial hypocrisy.

"You must spread some Negative Reputation around before giving it to Jtorsella again."

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I don't disagree -- the best thing to come out here is an anticomplacency headwhack. Let Paulers on the ground in IA know for 10000% certainty we gotta fight!

 

[Jtorsella]

"You must spread some Negative Reputation around before giving it to Jtorsella again."

You neg repped me because I said what I thought the campaign should do, and because I think this poll is bad news?

 

[Created4]

That's the amount Bill Johnson donated to his campaign to show its viability.

You need millions. Not a quarter of a million that's raised too late to spend in Iowa.

Bill Johnson? Which Bill Johnson was that??

 

[lx43]

Channel the anger you feel about the poll results into making calls, donating, or spreading the message of liberty that Dr. Paul has been preaching for 30 years. What if with your efforts the next few days we can get Dr. Paul a home-run in IA?????? Or What if you become despondent and quit and Dr. Paul comes in 4th place???? I'd rather bust my butt the next few days to say I did something that mattered. That I made a difference. When your an old person looking back on your life, don't you want to say that I helped to save America like the brave people that rebelled against Britain? At least we won't be hanged for committing treason, atleast not yet.

 

[BucksforPaul]

+rep for the OP

If anyone has been closely listening to Dr. Paul in the last few days then they should know that he has awakened the people who do not belong to either party and thus are never polled. Dr. Paul has never lied to me so I would stick to believing him rather than the negative nancies. Apathetic people are coming out of the woodwork to support him and if we focus on GOTV we will win this by a comfortable margin. Everyone please take a chill pill and continue to do what we have been doing and stop the negativity. The sky is not falling and the Mayan calendar still has some time left so relax.

 

[pauladin]

It might be better that we're slightly behind in the polls rather than slightly ahead because it will encourage people to fight really hard and gotv rather than be complacent.

 

[Guitarzan]

You neg repped me because I said what I thought the campaign should do, and because I think this poll is bad news?

No. I neg repped you (finally) after much consideration of all your posts over the last month.

This consideration, and your most recent couple posts, have led me to believe that you're a troll.

Now back to the thread, my apologies for derailing.

 

[hueylong]

Just please keep in mind how astounding it is that Dr. Paul is STILL basically tied for 1st place AFTER being TORCHED for 2 weeks by cable news, the MSM and his five opponents.

Also, please remember that the "last 2 days of results" are not necessarily meaningful:

1. It's half the sample, so nearly double margin of error.

2. It is only meaningful if they polled the state in a perfectly homogeneous fashion -- otherwise, we could just be looking at geographic variation. (that's why nobody releases 'half a poll')

3. It doesn't make any difference -- we STILL need to do all the things we need to do, to win.

 

[misterx]

Santorum has no money and organization until he places top 3 in iowa, then the establishment will coalesce around him and the big corporate money will start rolling in. there is no silver lining to this one., a santorum surge is what I have been afraid of this whole time.

 

[asurfaholic]

Just please keep in mind how astounding it is that Dr. Paul is STILL basically tied for 1st place AFTER being TORCHED for 2 weeks by cable news, the MSM and his five opponents.

This, it is incredible how hard the media has been trashing Dr Paul, and yet he still remains a major force in Iowa.

 

[Badger Paul]

"Santorum has very little in the way of a ground game."

Which is critical because it's one thing to be the flavor of the month it's another to get people out to caucus for you. As we found out in 2008, ethusiasm is nice but it's not a substitute for organization. Remember the whole crashed data disks fiasco four years ago? Activists sitting around until 4:30 p.m. waiting for their get-of-the-vote info? Too late as turns out to do any good. Even still we got more than we polled although we finished fifth. Better organization could have put us into third place and then it's a different ballgame. Hopefully better organization pulls us even higher this time around.

 

[John of Des Moines]

What's better news is the poll only surveyed active Republicans and no party registered voters.

Interviewers contacted individuals randomly selected from the Iowa voter registration list by telephone, stratifying contact by age and sex. The full sample of 2,527 respondents was adjusted for age and sex based on distribution among active Republican and no party registered voters.

I know some unactive Republicans getting active again and Cross-over Democrats.

 

[RickyJ]

I've been running political campaigns for 25 years. This poll is very good news.

Really?

OK that sounds good then. But it looks like without the democrats turning out we are in trouble.

 

[Boss]

IMO

this poll is good insofar as it should motivate RP voters. better to be motivated and fighting for the lead than complacent with a lead (honestly, some RP supporters got a little complacent with all the polls coming out showing RP in 1st)

 

[michaelwise]

A+ assessment of the situation.

 

[XNavyNuke]

I've been running political campaigns for 25 years. This poll is very good news.

I couldn't agree more. A Santorum surge has the potential to help the Paul campaign against Romney. If you look at the political geography of the state, there is very little overlap between the strongly evangelical counties (as illustrated by Robertson in '88 and Huckabee in '08) and Paul's strongest counties in '08. The exception being Jefferson county in the SE corner of the state. According to erowe1, the mere presence of the Maharishi School of Enlightenment means that Jefferson county will remain a lock for Paul.

XNN

 

[lx43]

Santorum has no money and organization until he places top 3 in iowa, then the establishment will coalesce around him and the big corporate money will start rolling in. there is no silver lining to this one., a santorum surge is what I have been afraid of this whole time.

Actually that might be good for us to have Santorum and Romney as our only two competitors, if the old saying goes, there are only 3 roads out of IA. You have two big govt liberal Republicans stealing each others votes, while we can get the Libertarian and Conservative vote.