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Economy, War and Immigration, same as everyone else. Immigration takes a small backseat to the others as we do not see as much up here (but there is some).
Ron Paul can win Maine if there is enough effort put into the State. Maine always backs the "odd man out". Perot and Stockdale *beat* Bush and Quayle in '92 *and* Bush lives up here part time. Elected an Independent Governor before the current one. Mainers like voting out-of-the-box.
There are a lot of Ron Paul supporters up around here. I have always been disappointed in the lack of attention from the RP HQ. Nobody is paying the State any attention, it used to be "As Maine goes, so goes the Nation"
The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and some others: See the list here: http://www.mainepress.org/
Ron Paul can win Maine if there is enough effort put into the State. Maine always backs the "odd man out". Perot and Stockdale *beat* Bush and Quayle in '92 *and* Bush lives up here part time. Elected an Independent Governor before the current one. Mainers like voting out-of-the-box.
There are a lot of Ron Paul supporters up around here. I have always been disappointed in the lack of attention from the RP HQ. Nobody is paying the State any attention, it used to be "As Maine goes, so goes the Nation"
The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and some others: See the list here: http://www.mainepress.org/
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Portland Press Herald is one of the biggest souther maine
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/home.html
Northern maine: Bangor Daily News
http://www.bangordailynews.com/
central maine:
http://www.sunjournal.com/
economy. Small business issues.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/home.html
Northern maine: Bangor Daily News
http://www.bangordailynews.com/
central maine:
http://www.sunjournal.com/
economy. Small business issues.
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I think the war is major issue up here. Tons of hippies running around. I see war protests during the summer in the town i live in.
Economy will be a big issue as well. Tons of fishermen/lobstermen all over the coast and from what i hear the fishing the lobster has not been the best this season. Scallops have been about average. Trying to find a job in the winter is also a pain in the ass because a lot of the businesses close down until the terrorist...oppps i mean tourists come for vacation. My ol' was jobless for 3 months. She got lucky and beat out 5 others for a job that pays $9 and hour.
Immigration like every place else. I dont think they have migrated up here as much because it might be to cold for them (just an observation but i see a couple every now and then). But I am pretty confident that they are unwelcome up here more so then other states. People up here call me a flatlander cause im not from maine. I could only imagine what they call illegals.
Economy will be a big issue as well. Tons of fishermen/lobstermen all over the coast and from what i hear the fishing the lobster has not been the best this season. Scallops have been about average. Trying to find a job in the winter is also a pain in the ass because a lot of the businesses close down until the terrorist...oppps i mean tourists come for vacation. My ol' was jobless for 3 months. She got lucky and beat out 5 others for a job that pays $9 and hour.
Immigration like every place else. I dont think they have migrated up here as much because it might be to cold for them (just an observation but i see a couple every now and then). But I am pretty confident that they are unwelcome up here more so then other states. People up here call me a flatlander cause im not from maine. I could only imagine what they call illegals.
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We need some grassroots money, for sure. Let me know what I can do....
Radio ads would be good too...especially emphasizing the upcoming caucus and how people who want good jobs to come back to Maine should vote for Dr. Paul.
Radio ads would be good too...especially emphasizing the upcoming caucus and how people who want good jobs to come back to Maine should vote for Dr. Paul.
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I would try to go balls to the wall grassroots, folks, while accepting materiel and literature from HQs throughout the state. HQ e-mail communication is good, but I gave up trying to get somebody on the horn to find out what the hours of operation were on Saturday to help out. Any 5-10 people from Maine interested interested in going in on 10-20% of the cost of a "village/town/city"-sized order of disc 2 from ronpauldvd.com with me and others please PM me with your e-mail address so we can coordinate and lump them into grassroots literature drops if the droppers want to accept them.
Also, does anybody think it would be a good idea to send out Ron Paul campaign videos like the short 10 minute one from RonPaulDVDBomb.com to Elks/Lions/Rotary/Mason/lodge meetings/clubs? A lot of those old guys get really political and love America and boy do they talk since many of them are retired. Could be an easy sell (if they have a DVD player at the lodge of course).
Also, does anybody think it would be a good idea to send out Ron Paul campaign videos like the short 10 minute one from RonPaulDVDBomb.com to Elks/Lions/Rotary/Mason/lodge meetings/clubs? A lot of those old guys get really political and love America and boy do they talk since many of them are retired. Could be an easy sell (if they have a DVD player at the lodge of course).
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I could write a beautiful script, but it wouldn't be effective without Dr. Paul's voice. So, I guess we need to do the next best thing and find somebody else's ad that has his voice in it. I am on dialup and it is very hard for me to download or listen to large files...
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Anybody out there????
Hello????
Hello????
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stevemartin,
perhaps you can coordinate the Maine Meetups -- we need that 1st or 2nd...
Perhaps the meetups can find a nice plan of action ---
REMEMBER, IF you can coordinate we can set up a call4paul program for Maine - you get the chipin up and some volunteers for phone calls - we can contact 100,000's
let me know.
perhaps you can coordinate the Maine Meetups -- we need that 1st or 2nd...
Perhaps the meetups can find a nice plan of action ---
REMEMBER, IF you can coordinate we can set up a call4paul program for Maine - you get the chipin up and some volunteers for phone calls - we can contact 100,000's
let me know.
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Well, I was at the grand opening of the Bangor HQ last night and brought back 100 signs for "the county" and got half of them up already (an 8-hour odyssey). I know Ken Lindell pretty well (the newly-announced state coordinator) and also his assistant, Sunny.
I will be able to work with them. They are nice people, and more competent (I think) than what we had in Michigan. No need to do parallel work up here, I don't believe.
Supposedly, we'll even be getting radio and TV up here.
I will be able to work with them. They are nice people, and more competent (I think) than what we had in Michigan. No need to do parallel work up here, I don't believe.
Supposedly, we'll even be getting radio and TV up here.
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I am gathering quotes this morning for Ken Lindell for a media buy for the top 1/3 of the state. Radio (3 stations..6 total with repeaters) and WAGM-TV in Presque Isle.
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I know down here in the southern 1/3 of the state we've had quite a bit of radio ads already (WHOM, WOKQ/WPKQ, WPOR, WUBB, WBLM to name a few) though most of these stations had signifigant signal coverage into NH (WHOM, WUBB and WOKQ/WPKQ especially)
Its good to know that there is going to be spots even wayyy up there in the county
Maybe print up some "Moose for Ron Paul" stickers too...but in all seriousness, its great to see that the campaign knows that Maine doesn't end when you go past Freeport.
Its good to know that there is going to be spots even wayyy up there in the county
Maybe print up some "Moose for Ron Paul" stickers too...but in all seriousness, its great to see that the campaign knows that Maine doesn't end when you go past Freeport.Badger Paul
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Let's carry the Arostook Country!
Kittery
I'm from Mass, but I think I'm going to head up to Kittery tomorrow to hand out some literature. (Maybe some Ron Paul Gun Rights slim jims at the Trading Post). I don't have many left, but every one could make a difference. If anybody's in the area, come down with whatever you have. I'll be there fairly early. Hope to see some of you there.
I'm from Mass, but I think I'm going to head up to Kittery tomorrow to hand out some literature. (Maybe some Ron Paul Gun Rights slim jims at the Trading Post). I don't have many left, but every one could make a difference. If anybody's in the area, come down with whatever you have. I'll be there fairly early. Hope to see some of you there.
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