How are things looking for us in Texas?

I am in Huntsville. Very few signs here. I am a precinct leader but have no help at all, unless you count the moral support of my three year old daughter that likes to go with me when I canvas the neighborhood. We have a local meetup group, but it is not real active and I have only found one person there willing to help, but she is swamped with her own area. If the students at Sam Houston Univ. are pro Paul, I am not seeing it anywhere... Most of the people I meet while canvasing are surprised to find out Paul is still in the race. Some of my close friends and family are supporters because of my continued preaching in the last few years. I don't have much hope for our precincts, but I will continue as I can. The constant low results in the various primaries and caucuses are not helping. Most folks won't take the time to understand the confusing delegate process and just focus on the vote numbers reported by the media. I am taking the long term perspective though. I will continue to preach the message, just like I always have, in the hopes that in the future the people will be more receptive to someone like Ron Paul. I just hope we survive until that time...
 
We may win a few delegates in the Austin area. A few more in the Houston/Austin area is also a possibility. Other than that, Texas will be McCain/Huck territory most likely. My guess is 7 to 8% popular vote. Since McCain pretty much has this thing wrapped up, it's a lot tougher to get folks excited even in Ron's home state.
 
it is discouraging to hear people mostly vote based on who they think the frontrunner is, rather than who they believe in.
 
Threshold

Hawks,

If a candidate gets 50%, they get all the delegates.

If a candidate gets above 20%, they get most of the delegates and the next guy gets some.

If no candidates get above 20%, the top 3 split the delegates somehow.

The takeaway is that McCain will get above 20% and Huckabee will beat Paul - so again, targetting the primary vote to gain state delegates should not be Paul's strategy.

If you seriously want to help Paul in Texas, you need to get elected as a delegate the day of the primary, work your way up through the system, and hope for a brokered convention.
 
"He needs to push the fact that he is the toughest on illegal immigration and not talk so much about the war I think. It seems Obama has the no war vote sewn up."
Yeah, you'd think they'd be advertising that heavily in Texas.
Is the campaign advertising in Texas at all?? ... it seems that in the recent states the campaign isn't even advertising - so yeah the public gets the perception he's not in the race anymore. Arrrghhh!
 
tribute_13 said:
That's not decent, Paul already expressed that if he loses Texas, then there's no point to keep going.
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No, Paul was talking about the importance of the Texas Congressional seat - not the Republican primary, and he has never uttered the words "there's no point to keep going". Please don't spread this disinformation.
 
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thekeeper said:
I live in a rural area. Neo-con thinking has a strong-hold here, especially among men between 30 and 40. In rural areas of Texas, New York politicians are not very popular. This hurts Giuliani. Many take their voting orders from conservative talk radio, so McCain will not do good here. Southern Baptists are the biggest Evangelical denomination in my area, so Huckabee will most likely be their choice.
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Same here.
Makes me sick but they've got the "big money ministers" telling them what to think too.

Sad.

RP will do well in this area(see my location).
 
Ron Paul info not available

I live in Canton, about 70 miles from east of Dallas.The problem I find over and over is that more people watch T.V. and do not access the internet. I have been working on a Ron Paul compilation of the YouTube speeches,Debates etc. but so far have only been able to create a DVD playable on a computer not a DVD player as needed.
I would gladly reproduce as many copies as needed to handout for free to people without a computer as most do have DVD players.
As we all know, exposure to Ron Paul or rather the lack of it is hurting. It only takes 1 or 2 speeches to convert most people.
I do have copies made on CD of his speeches and debates for listening only if anyone is interested,
 
You need to support the Ron Paul Newspaper - Texas edition effort. They've plans to distribute 500,000 copies of the paper, which puts in print form most of what can be found on his website, but they need money to do it. This is a legit operation (the chip-in is on the home page of these forums) and previous results suggest that it works to inform people and GOTV for RP.
 
How is Texas?

Well, we have a GOP that hates McCain, a very active bunch of well-organized meetups, and we're Ron Paul's home state.

Meanwhile the grassroots interest level has largely moved to the march, the donations are dried up, the media is continuing to report that Ron Paul has dropped out.

So we would be in AWESOME shape if we had people's interest and donations, but at the moment we don't.
 
gotcats said:
I live in Canton, about 70 miles from east of Dallas.The problem I find over and over is that more people watch T.V. and do not access the internet. I have been working on a Ron Paul compilation of the YouTube speeches,Debates etc. but so far have only been able to create a DVD playable on a computer not a DVD player as needed.
I would gladly reproduce as many copies as needed to handout for free to people without a computer as most do have DVD players.
As we all know, exposure to Ron Paul or rather the lack of it is hurting. It only takes 1 or 2 speeches to convert most people.
I do have copies made on CD of his speeches and debates for listening only if anyone is interested,
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There is this: http://www.ronpauldvd.com/

Also, I downloaded this and burned about 400 copies to hand out.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=26297

I've got about 150 more to hand out of that 400. It will play on any DVD player, just like a movie. The first link in that post is to a google video. It is the main feature on the DVD. You can download an image of the DVD using a bittorrent program from the piratebay link (what I did). Then use that image to burn as many DVD's as you can. I have a 16X burner and it averages about 7 minutes per DVD, so it takes a LOT of time. Given the cost in time and money, in retrospect, I think the first link I posted above would have been a better deal and it looks professional. My DVD's all have the title hand written with a Sharpie :p

I think the newspaper idea is great. I wish I had a few thousand to toss, especially if they had plastic wrappers.
 
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