Paul At 4% And Huckabee AT 22% In Iowa?!?

[RevolutionSD]

Huckabee did not magically gain 20 points in a few days without any significant ads.

The media said he was the hot candidate and that supposedly made him the hot candidate.

Do you KNOW personally any Huck supporters?
Have you ever seen one on the street?
Have you seen a Huck bumper sticker???

There is ZERO support for Huckerbee in CA, and my guess it's similar in other parts of the country outside of maybe him home state of Arkansas.

The support is made up, fabricated.
Hopefully they don't fabricate the vote too.

 

[user]

Huckabee did not magically gain 20 points in a few days without any significant ads.

The media said he was the hot candidate and that supposedly made him the hot candidate.

Do you KNOW personally any Huck supporters?
Have you ever seen one on the street?
Have you seen a Huck bumper sticker???

There is ZERO support for Huckerbee in CA, and my guess it's similar in other parts of the country outside of maybe him home state of Arkansas.

The support is made up, fabricated.
Hopefully they don't fabricate the vote too.

I don't think we can generalize from CA. The idea of a theocracy is more popular in other parts of the country.

 

[hrdman2luv]

Holiday message from Tax Hike Mike (funny)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0md2vXiOGs

Can we post Youtube vise in here?

 

[Bossobass]

Huckabee did not magically gain 20 points in a few days without any significant ads.

The media said he was the hot candidate and that supposedly made him the hot candidate.

Do you KNOW personally any Huck supporters?
Have you ever seen one on the street?
Have you seen a Huck bumper sticker???

There is ZERO support for Huckerbee in CA, and my guess it's similar in other parts of the country outside of maybe him home state of Arkansas.

The support is made up, fabricated.
Hopefully they don't fabricate the vote too.

This post is spot on.

My mother, who is 72 and watches Fox news every day of her life, in an unrelated phone conversation, blurted, 'Wow, that Huckabee guy sure is on the news a lot these days'.

Several people I talk to fairly regularly said nearly exactly the same thing to me.

Most of them couldn't say his name correctly. I had to correct their version of Huckabee, to which the exclaimed, 'Yeah, that's the guy!'.

So, in a few weeks of total media blitz, Huckabee is well known. Well, not well known enough for people to even remember how to pronounce his name, but well known enough for them to respond to a hard line phone poll where they say the names for you.

I believe that Iowa, generally speaking, is a politcal toilet of manipulated Presidential election results. I also have found in my travels to the state, that the people of Iowa are generally extremely apathetic. I mean, c'mon...the pols have to buy them a ticket, tansport them to the venue, lavishly feed them and entertain them, and even then they only get 40,000 participants to the Straw Poll.

They wait until the last few days and let the MSM and local rags (Des Moines Register) tell them who to vote for. I that doesn't work well enough, they use Diebold software to adjust the vote results.

Just my opinion regarding Iowa.

Work as hard as you personally can to introduce RP to the citizens and work the polls in every legal capacity, and for cryin' out loud, sponsor a credible exit poll to prevent the fruitless cries of foul that have no evidence to back them.

Bosso

 

[Derek Johnson]

Registered yet? Delegate yet? Poll Worker and/or Vote Count Watcher yet? Hit the streets with literature/DVDs yet? Circulated a petition yet? Attend GOP meetings (township - county – state) yet? Canvassed collecting names and phone numbers yet? Pass out registration forms to your meetup group yet? Promoted Ron Paul to you church, gunshows, anti-war rallies, prolife meetings, home school organizations, anti-amnesty groups, etc. yet? Call talk radio shows and pitch Ron Paul yet? Write letters to your local newspapers yet? Sent letters to celebrities asking for an endorsement yet? Ask your local television stations to profile/interview Ron Paul yet?

Bingo! Copy paste this into a word doc and hand it out to everyone at church.

 

[dspectre]

This is ridiculous.

The Reality is NO ONE KNOWS the exact support for anybody.

If you haven't noticed how the media has treated Dr. Paul and thinks that has nothing to do with the Polls, then I really don't know what to tell you.


The Polls mean nothing. It's all manufactured. Get that through your head. Just because it appears on a television screen and a group of people say it is true DOESN'T MAKE IT SO.

The Media will never say he polls well. If you want that, join a campaign that has a panderer.

 

[davidhperry]

The important thing is the GOTV effort right now.

 

[LeonardK]

I'll answer the OP since no one else did:

As I think of this I have to wonder what it is that we are not doing.

Pandering. Rev Mike's tellin' the sheeple what they think they want to hear. The sheeple don't want to be challenged, they want their bread and circuses.

 

[jacmicwag]

Huck is for real. People like him because he seems like a sincere, warm and funny guy. Guys like that get elected for their personal traits more than their stand on issues. You can bet that Huck will continue to do everything he can to sound more like Dr. Paul but still stay true to his populist message.

Sure, it hurts to see this guy take off on the rocket we all wanted to ride. But remember - we have doubled our poll numbers at least twice in the past few months. Other than Huck, we are the only campaign moving in the right direction. We are just now starting an advertising blitz that could have a huge impact on our numbers. All of the competition (Mitt, Rudy, etc) is focused on Huck right now which could also work to our advantage. We have a shoot at this thing - a much better one than 3 months ago. Ron's message is being heard by more people every day - and many of them are joining us. So what do you think - is the glass half empty or maybe getting ready to overflow?

 

[davidhperry]

Huck is for real. People like him because he seems like a sincere, warm and funny guy. Guys like that get elected for their personal traits more than their stand on issues. You can bet that Huck will continue to do everything he can to sound more like Dr. Paul but still stay true to his populist message.

Sure, it hurts to see this guy take off on the rocket we all wanted to ride. But remember - we have doubled our poll numbers at least twice in the past few months. Other than Huck, we are the only campaign moving in the right direction. We are just now starting an advertising blitz that could have a huge impact on our numbers. All of the competition (Mitt, Rudy, etc) is focused on Huck right now which could also work to our advantage. We have a shoot at this thing - a much better one than 3 months ago. Ron's message is being heard by more people every day - and many of them are joining us. So what do you think - is the glass half empty or maybe getting ready to overflow?

I agree completely. If people want to help out, contact the Iowa and/or NH efforts and pick up the phone to call supporters.

 

[LeonardK]

Also I think Huck's playing the "Good Cop" card to Ron's "Bad Cop".

The sheeple don't want to be told that things are bad here, bad there, this is broke, that's wrong. Even if they know it's true, they don't want to hear it. I have heard "half-full" comments from Paul but I've heard just as many "half-empty" comments from him and I think that turns people off a little, whereas Huck's corrupting the message to say, yeah it's broken a little but don't worry none 'cause my new big government can fix the old big government.

 

[propanes]

I agree completely. If people want to help out, contact the Iowa and/or NH efforts and pick up the phone to call supporters.

+2

Top of Drudge features an article about the Huckster describing, "the groundswell for Huckabee". The article has no mention of Paul's record fund raising.

The media will continue to push anyone but Ron. That's the way it is.

 

[SteveMartin]

Check this thread:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=60158

 

[Taco John]

What am I missing?

A membership to the CFR.

 

[frasu]

The polling is getting ridiculous... we do our thing and disregard all this nonsense... polls done with couple hundred of people, with 5% margin of error?? that is a joke... check out this article:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004064147_peterhart11.html

VERY GOOD analysis of a poll-obsessed media...

 

[Alex Libman]

They're only polling the "Dubya fanclub" from 2004, so no wonder the most Bush-like candidate is winning!

Somebody ought to tell them that other people can vote too... Or maybe they'll keep me from the voting booth because I've just re-registered as Republican or don't have a land-line?!?

 

[Maltheus]

I just got telephone polled last night. There went through each candidate, one by one, asking if I would vote for them. I waited through that entire list yet alas, no Ron Paul. Now I can tell people this first hand, instead of just referring to what I've been hearing online.

 

[nbhadja]

CAN SOME OF YOU NOT READ?? POLLS ARE BS!!!!

 

[Ozwest]

CAN SOME OF YOU NOT READ?? POLLS ARE BS!!!!

Fuck mate, you cracked my screen!

 

[jmunjr]

So if Paul only gets 4% in the actually primary election how many of you will accept it and how many will say, "the election is a lie" or "it was rigged" ?