Positive Messages from Iowa (READ IT-- You won't be sorry)

[NOLA]

good post...WE have to remember we came in FIRST among INDEPENDENTS who make up 40% of the electorate in NH!

 

[Chomsky]

I don't post or bump much and I've only been here a few weeks. Deal with it.

This is the best post I've seen here since I got back here at 9:30 CST from my first ever REPUBLICAN PARTY MEETING so I can eventually become a delegate for RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT. Three weeks into what couls be the Mother of Revolutions and she has me going to uncomfortable neocon-infested party meetings. And sign bombing. And freezing my ass off for New Years Eve stumping in communist Madison, Wisconsin getting called a racist KKK supporter (sigh). And driving around risking cop troubles with two yard signs in my rear glass. Or tire slashing maybe even (happened last election here in good ole' Milwaukee).

WoW marches and tiresome Youtoob honorarium (except for a select few - aravoth, ghoberx, eliberty come to mind) and Digg this and endless bumps for blimps and moneybombs by the same people over and over again. I'd wager my last remaining testicle that most of you marching on warcraft havent set foot outside to do a sign bomb - over 200 people easy. I lurk this forum instead of my morning paper, the evening Simpsons/FamilyGuy syndis, and cleaning the house. So many here think this is just a focking game. Not to me it isnt. Ima 35 year old guy who's going to pay dearly for this country's mistakes. It makes me sick to my stomach, unproductive in my business, uninterested in dating and starting a family... a focking depression case. This is my shining star. This is our last chance to save this nation. I know it in my heart as I have known we are doomed my entire adult life.

ACTIVATE: Get into a meetup and GET IT ORGANIZED. Meetup.com is inflexible so create a website as a companion to it. Many of us (me too) will host it for nothing. Lots of people like the groovy-collective-disorder of grassroots. Show me where that works in business. You can't. Get managers and some order in your groups.

TRUTHERS: Leave 9/11 at the door. Others have said it here... 9/11 will be fast forgotten when you are standing in a soup line in a refugee camp. I thank the truthers for getting the early message out there. But really, I don't care about 9/11 anymore, it was terrible but I am over it. Ya, I said that.

GET OUTDOORS: While your sitting here reading this print some of the plethora of PDF's available and put them everywhere you can. I have Google RON PAUL signs covering the east side of Milwaukee's power poles. Hundreds. I did this myself, one person.

SO GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND GET HIM INTO OFFICE!!!

I apologize for the rant, but I have read so much here that many of you seem like family/friends. I needed my brief soapbox. Back to lurk mode.

Hell yeah! Don't let what happened to Iowa happen in your state! Take the sick feeling you have in your stomach right now and make it go away by canvassing tomorrow. We can do this people!

 

[Gtex]

Very nice post

 

[Electrostatic]

And do not forget... We are going to KILL in the delegate totals...

 

[thatotherguy]

Great post!

 

[junior_bacon_cheeseburger]

Thank you, not for being positive, but for being TRUTHFUL. This campaign is of course about love and positivity, but it is mostly about TRUTH, and telling it like it is. We had a good showing in Iowa, and we will continue to do better. If, after all this, we lose the nomination, then that only means our battle for liberty will have to be much harder fought. I can say this for sure, SLAVERY WILL COME TO THESE LANDS OVER MY DEAD BODY. Let us not forget the importance of the document that delivered mankind from 6000+ years of suffering, tyranny, warfare, and poverty. Now that the philosophy of liberty has been painstakingly developed at such great cost to humanity, let us NEVER forget it, let us NEVER let it go. WE MUST DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AT ALL COSTS. One defeat here or there is meaningless. All is lost when we lay down and comply with those who seek to scare and control us. Without our compliance, the powers that be are nothing. WE WILL PREVAIL.

 

[jimreport]

I knew there would be a problem by the entrance polls. Nothing but religious zealouts going in (something like 60%). He did pretty good against a base which which more than 50% was looking for a guy like them.

The more people that hear him the more will catch on. It took me a month to come around to deciding to trade having no IRS for letting the world fight its own battles.

 

[fuzzybekool]

Look not upon the setting Iowa sun tonight with disdain, but embrace the reality of a new sunrise in New Hampshire.

A new battle ensues tomorrow, and this day will be forgotten to the winds of yesterday.

Stand tall. Look straight ahead. The vision you are witnessing from your steely gaze, my friends, is VICTORY !

 

[RobS]

McCain only got FIVE percent in Iowa and ended up winning New Hampshire with over 40% of the vote in 2000.

This campaign aint over folks.

 

[clintontj72]

[Article] Iowa: The Perfect Outcome For Ron Paul

Things could have not turned out better for Congressman Ron Paul in Iowa for the Republican presidential race. Let's face it, at this time Ron Paul cannot yet win a one on one or three way contest in the Republican race. He is by far one of the most spectacular candidates to run in the Republican field in a long time. However, he is not some willy nilly thirty second soundbite politician. People need to become educated in more depth to understand his well thought out, solid, and logical positions. For many Republicans they have not had enough exposure yet. It is a long, hard, and tiring process to educate in depth the conservative electorate about traditional conservative principles and values.

Tonight just bought Ron Paul even more time to get out his message and to still place well in all of the upcoming states. Iowa will keep Huckabee in the race. Romney wasn't going to be exiting any time soon. Fred Thompson was thought to be dead, but just had new life breathed into his campaign. McCain was also thought to be dead, but got a rebound. And of course Iowa was irrelevant to Giuliani as he will stay in the race. Only Duncan Hunter may drop, but his support base doesn't seem likely to be a factor anywhere.

What does this all mean to Ron Paul. Well, Ron Paul has shown...

Read the rest:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Iowa_The_Perfect_Outcome_For_Ron_Paul

 

[The Machine]

Hold their hand!

... The ground game (as in getting supporters to the polls, and following up with likely supporters throughout the process) needs to be more focused and aggressive. You cannot take these voters for granted! Don't forget this salient fact: Iowa and New Hampshire, as widely recognized "kingmakers" when it comes to the presidential process, are fickle. They expect and demand attention. If they do not receive this attention, they will throw their support to someone else who gives them the attention they crave.

This is VERY important! It would be nice to have a group of people in each state that are responsible for follow-up and transportation. I heard a lady Ron Paul supporter call into CSpan this evening that wasn't going to caucus for lack of a baby sitter...totally unacceptable loss of a vote.

I heard the Clinton bunch purchased 600 shovels and salt to clear drives and walkways to ensure turnout. Romney's crew was using buses to shuttle his voters. I wonder if anything like this was done for Ron's voter's?


Lip service and reality don't always match, unfortunately most people still need to be talked to and treated like adolescents...let's accommodate them and hold their hand if that's what it takes.

 

[Chibioz]

Amazing post, thank you

 

[Dan Klaus]

bump for a positive message..thanks for posting..

 

[jwbowman]

Staying positive is not an issue for me. I will never ever fail to vote for liberty when given the opportunity, even if I am the only one to do so, or even if everyone else is doing the same.

 

[Think12345]

A hearty, re-energized bump to this positive message

 

[ronnieawesome]

Iowa polls

The Iowa polls don,t mean anything. ron did good he beat the mayor didn,t he and he has,nt even had any where close to the publisity the mayor has had.
I work for the postal service and alot of people he are voteing for paul the word is just getting out about him. Stay motivated the more that people find out about paul and his voteing record they will see that he is for real.

 

[kaleidoscope eyes]

bump
get that positivity out to the universe AND the people on the streets!
I believe!

 

[joenaab]

I agree with everything. great post. and, remember, when we win the nomination, Iowa will ultimately be ours. Tens of thousands voted in the GOP caucuses and only a few thousand voted in the Dem caucuses.

 

[rpfreedom08]

yeah good post, needed something like that.

 

[Joey Wahoo]

Iowa went fine guys. While the result was not quite as quite good as we would have liked today, there are plenty of positives to take out of Iowa and we are in a much better position than many of our competitors. Below are some positive messages we should be using when we talk about Iowa to friends, family, undecided voters and the media.

(1) Contrary to what some here believe, we did significantly outperform our polls, just as we had been saying we would do all along.

According to Real Clear Politics, we were polling at 7.3% in the last five polls taken before the caucus (on average) yet, as of writing this, we are at 9.8%, meaning that we performed more than 34% better than we polled. That is a substantial overperformance—about twice as good as anyone else in the field.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/iowa-primary.html

(2) Despite the fact that we put very little effort into Iowa until very late in the game and despite the fact that Ron Paul spent less time in Iowa than any other candidate (in a state where in-person campaigning is essential) and despite our shabby treatment by the mainstream media we still were just 3 points out of third place.

(3) We destroyed former front-runner Rudy Giuliani—absolutely destroyed him with almost triple his vote total—and don’t be fooled—Rudy didn’t compete here because he couldn’t compete not because he didn’t want to.

(4) The winner in Iowa, Mike Huckabee, is completely unacceptable to large portions of the Republican party from Rush Limbaugh to the National Review crowd. Iowa has a much higher percentage of evangelicals than will primaries coming forward. Huckabee ain’t going to win New Hampshire and has little national organization.

(5) Meanwhile, of the other contenders, it was an unmitigated disaster for each of them. Despite spending tons of time and million of $ in Iowa Romney was crushed. And he’s going to lose to McCain in New Hampshire. McCain meanwhile, did not get the bounce that he needed from this performance. He is still low on cash and though he is likely to win New Hampshire it’s not obvious how he does well afterwards. Thompson’s performance was likewise weak given his sole focus on Iowa and his one time front-runner status. He is going absolutely nowhere in New Hampshire. He is also totally out of money. He may drop out of the race soon. Meanwhile Giuliani was embarrassed in Iowa and is toast going forward.

(6) Exit polls suggest that we WON Independent Voters, who are the key crossover constituency that a Republican candidate is going to need to win in the general election.

So where does that leave us? We have a wide open race right now. We are likely to be top 3 in Wyoming and we should also do fairly well in South Carolina and Nevada, where we have spent time building our base while everyone else was in Iowa.

Virtually every other candidate is broke and with the exception of Huckabee, they won’t pull in more money based on their Iowa performance. Meanwhile, we have millions in the bank and with our huge grassroots base, we can easily raise millions more. That money will matter a lot more in states that, unlike Iowa don’t allow candidates to meet every voter. This is where we begin to use our finances to our advantage.

We’re not going to have a clear winner going into Super Tuesday on Feb. 5th. Right now, we have a large funding base and the organization to get out our message and reach voters. Almost all our competition doesn’t because they have spent all of their time and money in Iowa and New Hampshire. While it is still an uphill fight for the nomination (as it always was, eternal optimists on this forum aside) we are coming out of Iowa in a better position than we came in and we are well placed to do some real damage in the primaries going forward.

The Revolution Continues!

Excellent post. And correct. 1 out of 10 Republicans in IOWA, of all places, voted for Ron Paul. This is a state that Pat Robertson carried one year. We hit double digits and that number continues to creep up with every poll.

Romney is dead. One less to worry about. The others are virtually broke.

The Wall Street country club GOP establishment will spend the next few days frantically attacking Huck. He will be flayed by them. Thompson needed to do much better than he did. He's toast.

It will be McCain v. Paul in the end.

Keep the faith. Good luck to all the Paulestians in NH!!