Ok I understand why we lost Today

[ProBlue33]

60 % of Iowans are born again or evengelical
56 % said religious based topics were the most important to them

This is not what the rest of America thinks

Huckabee could never carry New York or California.

Now I am not worried

 

[Derek Johnson]

Stop making lame excuses. The reason we lost Iowa will be the same elsewhere, we don't interact face to face.

Will you? Will you pick up the phone? Will you give a presentation to nursing home folks, get them registered, and drive them to your precinct poll?

Let's be honest, we have maybe 1/3 to 1/2 million supporters. Are these supporters giving any of the rest of the 300 million reasons for switching from whoever to RP? Will they?

 

[slantedview]

Stop making lame excuses. The reason we lost Iowa will be the same elsewhere, we don't interact face to face.

Will you? Will you pick up the phone? Will you give a presentation to nursing home folks, get them registered, and drive them to your precinct poll?

Let's be honest, we have maybe 1/3 to 1/2 million supporters. Are these supporters giving any of the rest of the 300 million reasons for switching from whoever to RP? Will they?

you think huck did these things? of course not. he just gave some speeches and said god/jesus/church/religion every other sentence.

 

[LinearChaos]

Stop making lame excuses. The reason we lost Iowa will be the same elsewhere, we don't interact face to face.

Will you? Will you pick up the phone? Will you give a presentation to nursing home folks, get them registered, and drive them to your precinct poll?

Let's be honest, we have maybe 1/3 to 1/2 million supporters. Are these supporters giving any of the rest of the 300 million reasons for switching from whoever to RP? Will they?

cry more, Summer Soldier. lol.

 

[anotherone]

We lost because 10,000 people out of 3,000,000 voted for Ron Paul. (0.33% of population)

COUNTLESS supporters did not vote. They knew what he stood for, and yet did not vote. Why?

 

[Eponym_mi]

we don't interact face to face.

Speak for yourself!

 

[akovacs]

There is another good reason we lost:

The campaign supporter database got corrupted in a crash sometime yesterday. Whatever was recovered, we (campaigners in Iowa) did not get until about 2 hours before the caucus. There was not enough time to call people, make sure they were coming, as well as arranging rides.

I don't know how much this hurt us, but I feared this would happen earlier in the day when we still didn't have a call list.

 

[Paul10]

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[Molly1]

There is another good reason we lost:

The campaign supporter database got corrupted in a crash sometime yesterday. Whatever was recovered, we (campaigners in Iowa) did not get until about 2 hours before the caucus. There was not enough time to call people, make sure they were coming, as well as arranging rides.

I don't know how much this hurt us, but I feared this would happen earlier in the day when we still didn't have a call list.

That doesn't sound like an accident to me.

Moral of the story: backup backup backup

 

[thegoodman]

There is another good reason we lost:

The campaign supporter database got corrupted in a crash sometime yesterday. Whatever was recovered, we (campaigners in Iowa) did not get until about 2 hours before the caucus. There was not enough time to call people, make sure they were coming, as well as arranging rides.

I don't know how much this hurt us, but I feared this would happen earlier in the day when we still didn't have a call list.

It is not done yet!

 

[Molly1]

Obama just said what I've been saying, he said this is not about democrats

IT'S ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT VOTER

That is the voter Ron Paul is going after, the swing voter.

Ron Paul's opposition in New Hampshire is Obama.

He needs to convince swing voters to go the Republican primary and vote for him.

 

[Derek Johnson]

Iowa is what's to come, unless you intervene

For God's sake stop making excuses.

It's not about this demographic or that. It's about you. You have to overcome the MSM power and status quo inertia. This is a tall order, but it is your responsibility and mine.

So, will you visit a nursing home with 500 slim jims?

Will you really, or will you keep fucking off online with a wild fantasy of President Ron Paul?

Will you make some calls?

I damn sure will. Iowa is what's to come, unless you intervene.

 

[sergeant_x]

Heh... Let's maybe use our inner grown-ups to look at things a little more rationally, eh? Campaigns are a long series of battles and no one wins them all. Ron Paul continues to gain, and once people are converted, they stay converted. You're all getting impatient for the insta-win. But those don't happen in the real world. Especially for someone like Ron Paul. We'll have to fight for every inch we get, but once we get it, we keep it.

 

[Jon4Ron]

I'm not so sure.

I haven't posted in a while but what appears to be clear to me, is that the media coverage I have seen is not sufficient enough to reach voters. We all feel good when he gets coverage, however it's not prime time coverage on the network channels (it's mostly the secondary cable channels) and when it is, it is limited to things like "Will you consider running as a 3rd party candidate?" or "How can we function when you get rid of all that government?" or "You know you can't win, right?".

I would be willing to bet a large majority watch their local channels for evening and national news, I know I always use to. Also not being religious myself, I do know that Ron Paul would be admired by so many Christians if they heard him, especially over McCain and Thompson. I suspect Iowans are more dependent on the local stations. So to me this just shows how much more control TV still has over the internet, at least in Iowa.