Akus
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This bullshit with IA, in a way, was a good thing. It whipped me into getting some shit done. We had a discussion at our meetup over this. One of the guys argued that Huck won because he promised Iowan corn farmers the world and then some in free stuff. Plus the Diebold machines that calculate automatically and that leads to inaccuracies.
I politely disagreed. I blamed the shitty grassroots and the "young people" who didn't bother to vote because they were probably too busy surfing internet. I've heard stories about Ron Paul signs everywhere and how everybody and their dog loves Ron Paul. Yet the fifth place indicates that none of this means dog shit. All of the powerful internet support doesn't mean dog shit. There is absolutely no way that, with grassroots as powerful as ours, we are losing to John McCain and Fraud Thompson. I simply refuse to believe that in a 2.9 mil people state, only eleven thousand and change are Ron Paul supporters.
So that anger in me is what led me on to start going to door to door in the area of the meetup.
For moral support, I've asked to be accompanied by a friend. I did most of the "sale" though, simply because people's opennes to discussing the issues really attracted me.
We were given lists of people who either voted in the last primary, Democrat or Republican, or otherwise were politically involved. We were also given a script, which I ditched because it was impractial (it was on two pages).
Again, I expected hostility and slammed doors. To my surprise, even the disinterested people were intersted in us talking to them, they still remained disinterested in Ron Paul, though.
We've got one lady who was a staunch Democrat and Obama supporter, who agreed with RP and said he was the only one of the GOP who talked sense. However, she felt RP didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. She knew about him being anti-war, anti-this and anti-that.
We've got another guy who was very interested in Ron Paul. He took our slim-jim and we took his number. Or was it e-mail. I don't remember.
We've got still another guy who was not interested in Ron Paul at all, but was receptive to us and appreciated the grass root effort. He thought Ron Paul paid us to campaign for him and was surprised to learn otherwise. Took our slim-jim.
We've had a couple of more people with similar reactions who also have heard of RP and expressed interest and disinterest in him. Interesting thing is, everyone we've talked to know who Ron Paul is. Everyone we've talked to, with one exception, liked his politics and rhetoric, even when they viewed him as non viable.
Overall, it was surprisingly good experience. It'd help if we brought the clipboard for a hard surface to write on. It would also help if we were given the list of people in the numerical address order, not alphabet one. But hey, lesson learned.
Come next weekend, I intend to campaign for my precinct chair.
I would like some one to give me some tips on when is the best time to "raid" homes. I don't care if people don't give a shit about Ron Paul, what I hate the most is the houses that never opened the door to us, mostly because there was no one to get the door. Any tips on that?
I politely disagreed. I blamed the shitty grassroots and the "young people" who didn't bother to vote because they were probably too busy surfing internet. I've heard stories about Ron Paul signs everywhere and how everybody and their dog loves Ron Paul. Yet the fifth place indicates that none of this means dog shit. All of the powerful internet support doesn't mean dog shit. There is absolutely no way that, with grassroots as powerful as ours, we are losing to John McCain and Fraud Thompson. I simply refuse to believe that in a 2.9 mil people state, only eleven thousand and change are Ron Paul supporters.
So that anger in me is what led me on to start going to door to door in the area of the meetup.
For moral support, I've asked to be accompanied by a friend. I did most of the "sale" though, simply because people's opennes to discussing the issues really attracted me.
We were given lists of people who either voted in the last primary, Democrat or Republican, or otherwise were politically involved. We were also given a script, which I ditched because it was impractial (it was on two pages).
Again, I expected hostility and slammed doors. To my surprise, even the disinterested people were intersted in us talking to them, they still remained disinterested in Ron Paul, though.
We've got one lady who was a staunch Democrat and Obama supporter, who agreed with RP and said he was the only one of the GOP who talked sense. However, she felt RP didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. She knew about him being anti-war, anti-this and anti-that.
We've got another guy who was very interested in Ron Paul. He took our slim-jim and we took his number. Or was it e-mail. I don't remember.
We've got still another guy who was not interested in Ron Paul at all, but was receptive to us and appreciated the grass root effort. He thought Ron Paul paid us to campaign for him and was surprised to learn otherwise. Took our slim-jim.
We've had a couple of more people with similar reactions who also have heard of RP and expressed interest and disinterest in him. Interesting thing is, everyone we've talked to know who Ron Paul is. Everyone we've talked to, with one exception, liked his politics and rhetoric, even when they viewed him as non viable.
Overall, it was surprisingly good experience. It'd help if we brought the clipboard for a hard surface to write on. It would also help if we were given the list of people in the numerical address order, not alphabet one. But hey, lesson learned.
Come next weekend, I intend to campaign for my precinct chair.
I would like some one to give me some tips on when is the best time to "raid" homes. I don't care if people don't give a shit about Ron Paul, what I hate the most is the houses that never opened the door to us, mostly because there was no one to get the door. Any tips on that?
