derdy
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I posted this in another thread, but my post includes grassroots activity, so here it is:
We made calls for six hours today and we didn't come across a single huckabee supporter. We did come across a majority of undecideds and VERY pissed off people who have never heard of Ron Paul.
There have been some Mitt Romney signs popping up around my city (home to this beatufiul billboard LINK) and a meetup member ran into the guys putting the signs out. They said they put out 100.
Oh yeah, they were from Utah on Mormon church duty
A guy we were making calls with today said his friend was at a stoplight and the guy in the car in front of him, got out of his car, took down a Ron Paul sign and replaced it with a Romney sign. His friend got out of his car and took down the Romney sign and had a little stare down until the light turned green. So there ended up being no sign there.
We just got a TON of signs from campaign and they're going up everywhere. We got about 15,000 Slim Jims, at least 8-9 different kinds, and all kinds of supplies. We're armed to the teeth. People are canvassing their neighborhoods and we have a call center setup to make calls.
I had brand spanking new people call me (I'm the St. Charles County Precinct Coordinator (not HQ)) and they came by and picked up materials for canvassing.
Last night we had precinct parties throughout the Eastern Region of MO. At the party I went to we had like 5,000 bags that have a hole for placing on door knobs. We had a candidate comparison sheet that needed to be folded and about 5,000 copies or something ridiculous. We folded for about 30 minutes and a new meetup member showed up and said he had a machine that could do it automatically. The guy who owned the house was given a hand-me-dwon industrial laser printer and probably printed 7000 copies of all kinds of stuff.
We had people putting stuff in bags getting ready to canvass for today.
Then we went out for drinks. I got up at 9:30am and got ready to go to the call center at 10:30am-4:30pm.
The call center is awesome. We feed off eachothers successes and we have a whiteboard where we compete to see who can get the most undecideds that want literature and who can dig out the most Ron Paul supporters. It's all a numbers game.
Out of all of our calls we only found Romney, Giuliani, Clinton, Obama and Edwards supporters. Edwards and Obama supporters were mostly not committed and are great targets for conversion.
It's been a great couple of days and tomorrow I go back to the call center for another 6 hours.
Paul will do very well in MO. It's an open primary here too.
-Denny
We made calls for six hours today and we didn't come across a single huckabee supporter. We did come across a majority of undecideds and VERY pissed off people who have never heard of Ron Paul.
There have been some Mitt Romney signs popping up around my city (home to this beatufiul billboard LINK) and a meetup member ran into the guys putting the signs out. They said they put out 100.
Oh yeah, they were from Utah on Mormon church duty
A guy we were making calls with today said his friend was at a stoplight and the guy in the car in front of him, got out of his car, took down a Ron Paul sign and replaced it with a Romney sign. His friend got out of his car and took down the Romney sign and had a little stare down until the light turned green. So there ended up being no sign there.
We just got a TON of signs from campaign and they're going up everywhere. We got about 15,000 Slim Jims, at least 8-9 different kinds, and all kinds of supplies. We're armed to the teeth. People are canvassing their neighborhoods and we have a call center setup to make calls.
I had brand spanking new people call me (I'm the St. Charles County Precinct Coordinator (not HQ)) and they came by and picked up materials for canvassing.
Last night we had precinct parties throughout the Eastern Region of MO. At the party I went to we had like 5,000 bags that have a hole for placing on door knobs. We had a candidate comparison sheet that needed to be folded and about 5,000 copies or something ridiculous. We folded for about 30 minutes and a new meetup member showed up and said he had a machine that could do it automatically. The guy who owned the house was given a hand-me-dwon industrial laser printer and probably printed 7000 copies of all kinds of stuff.
We had people putting stuff in bags getting ready to canvass for today.
Then we went out for drinks. I got up at 9:30am and got ready to go to the call center at 10:30am-4:30pm.
The call center is awesome. We feed off eachothers successes and we have a whiteboard where we compete to see who can get the most undecideds that want literature and who can dig out the most Ron Paul supporters. It's all a numbers game.
Out of all of our calls we only found Romney, Giuliani, Clinton, Obama and Edwards supporters. Edwards and Obama supporters were mostly not committed and are great targets for conversion.
It's been a great couple of days and tomorrow I go back to the call center for another 6 hours.
Paul will do very well in MO. It's an open primary here too.
-Denny
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