helmuth_hubener
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The phoning from home did more good than harm tonight, for sure, based on my own personal experience. Sometimes you have to use your heads, though, people! I pre-emptively apologized to most people I got through to that "sorry if we've already called you a bunch of times;l our computers are glitching out", which is totally true. They all were generally understanding and reasonable.
The other thing to realize is that the data was not perfect. Not even close. A lot of these names were not Ron Paul supporters at all, and some were the name of a supporter but the wrong number. No problem. Just means that you have to realize there'll be noes. I think that some people hadn't done phone from home before and jumped in for Iowa because they wanted and expected a rejection-free, wonderful experience, full of over-the-phone high-fives and talking non-stop to fired-up Iowa Ron Paul stalwarts. Alas for them, that was not to be. But what it was was useful, and hopefully it made a big difference in the vote total. I got in about 100 calls today (on a normal day it would have been far more, but the glitching slows the process down a lot) and if Ron Paul wins by one-tenth of a percent out of the 100,000 caucus-goers, well, you'll know who to thank.
The other thing to realize is that the data was not perfect. Not even close. A lot of these names were not Ron Paul supporters at all, and some were the name of a supporter but the wrong number. No problem. Just means that you have to realize there'll be noes. I think that some people hadn't done phone from home before and jumped in for Iowa because they wanted and expected a rejection-free, wonderful experience, full of over-the-phone high-fives and talking non-stop to fired-up Iowa Ron Paul stalwarts. Alas for them, that was not to be. But what it was was useful, and hopefully it made a big difference in the vote total. I got in about 100 calls today (on a normal day it would have been far more, but the glitching slows the process down a lot) and if Ron Paul wins by one-tenth of a percent out of the 100,000 caucus-goers, well, you'll know who to thank.
