Sorry i didn't post this right away yesterday but i was no where near a computer for quite a while and by the time i got home i was too tired. Well enough about my lazyness........ here's the beef:
So i realised yesterday on the last possible day to change my voter registration address that i was not registered where i now live and i started to panic. I looked up on the website for the Michigan Secretary of State and saw that they closed at 5pm then i looked down at my watch and saw that it was 4:15 and i was like "Holy F#!&%!!!!". I then proceeded to bolt out the door and didn't even stop to put socks on. I ended up getting there at 4:52 because of nasty yuppy Chistmas shopping traffic and quickly ran to the door and saw that the place was packed. I grabbed a number and waited for about a half hour and heard the people working at the place complain that they were never going to get to go home. I finally got up to the counter and asked for a voter registration slip to fill out and just as i finished signing it i had a moment of self doubt and asked "i forgot if Michigan is an open primary state ,is it, or do i have to register as a republican?" and she said "thank god no, that one got struck down a while ago, you can vote how you like" i responded "i think Ron Paul is grateful for that". Then from behind me i hear a guy say "Go Ron Paul!!!" and i heard a bunch of people laugh and i turned around and looked at the guy and gave him a nod. Then i asked out loud "how many other people are here for voter registration?" and there were 17 people that raised their hands (I know because i counted them). Then i asked "How many people are voting for Ron Paul?" and 14 of them raised their hands in the crowd and 4 of the workers behind the counter. Everybody was laughing at this point then i asked the other 3 who they were voting for. One of them said Romney and then got a big "Ouch" from the rest of the crowd and the other two both said Obama. One guy got up from his seat and gave one of them a DVD. Then i left to go to work after saying goodbye to them.
Now the area i live in is very conservitive and i would have never expected to see that pecentage of people willing to vote for Ron. Now that i left i wish i could have asked a few more questions like "How many of you have never voted before" or "who voted democrat last time around".
There was one guy there that got the second half of that on his camera phone and if this guy is reading this board right now please send me the video or post it on Youtube or something because half of the people i tell this to think i'm full of crap.
The moral of the story is:
Whatever we are doing, keep doing it. This stuff works and if Ron can just get his message out a bit more i think we can grab allot more people. This is what it's all about. I don't want to hear anymore self doubt or guilt trips from you guys. We are going to do this and we are doing this the right way. I think allot of you forget what Ron already knows, this movement is not about Ron Paul, this is about us. Ron is just a rally point, he didn't ask for this, he was born for it. Keep it up, this is the real thing.
So i realised yesterday on the last possible day to change my voter registration address that i was not registered where i now live and i started to panic. I looked up on the website for the Michigan Secretary of State and saw that they closed at 5pm then i looked down at my watch and saw that it was 4:15 and i was like "Holy F#!&%!!!!". I then proceeded to bolt out the door and didn't even stop to put socks on. I ended up getting there at 4:52 because of nasty yuppy Chistmas shopping traffic and quickly ran to the door and saw that the place was packed. I grabbed a number and waited for about a half hour and heard the people working at the place complain that they were never going to get to go home. I finally got up to the counter and asked for a voter registration slip to fill out and just as i finished signing it i had a moment of self doubt and asked "i forgot if Michigan is an open primary state ,is it, or do i have to register as a republican?" and she said "thank god no, that one got struck down a while ago, you can vote how you like" i responded "i think Ron Paul is grateful for that". Then from behind me i hear a guy say "Go Ron Paul!!!" and i heard a bunch of people laugh and i turned around and looked at the guy and gave him a nod. Then i asked out loud "how many other people are here for voter registration?" and there were 17 people that raised their hands (I know because i counted them). Then i asked "How many people are voting for Ron Paul?" and 14 of them raised their hands in the crowd and 4 of the workers behind the counter. Everybody was laughing at this point then i asked the other 3 who they were voting for. One of them said Romney and then got a big "Ouch" from the rest of the crowd and the other two both said Obama. One guy got up from his seat and gave one of them a DVD. Then i left to go to work after saying goodbye to them.
Now the area i live in is very conservitive and i would have never expected to see that pecentage of people willing to vote for Ron. Now that i left i wish i could have asked a few more questions like "How many of you have never voted before" or "who voted democrat last time around".
There was one guy there that got the second half of that on his camera phone and if this guy is reading this board right now please send me the video or post it on Youtube or something because half of the people i tell this to think i'm full of crap.
The moral of the story is:
Whatever we are doing, keep doing it. This stuff works and if Ron can just get his message out a bit more i think we can grab allot more people. This is what it's all about. I don't want to hear anymore self doubt or guilt trips from you guys. We are going to do this and we are doing this the right way. I think allot of you forget what Ron already knows, this movement is not about Ron Paul, this is about us. Ron is just a rally point, he didn't ask for this, he was born for it. Keep it up, this is the real thing.
