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

Agreed.

Guiliani wasn't competing in Iowa, so beating him is nice but not too significant.

What is significant is that Paul supporters showed up: 10% of an entire state's republicans. The Iowa caucus is no straw poll (of which Ron Paul has been winning many). It shows Paul's support is fervent but not limited to a small "core" of support. There are easily thousands like that in every state.

Also, Paul had WOMEN show up!... in a ratio of 11:8, men to women. So there are some!

Not to mention that Paul pulled in over 50% of the voters who were "ANGRY" about Bush and 21% of the 18-27 age bracket. This means Paul is clearly the Republican's youth candidate, their disaffected, anti-republican Republican candidate, and generally just a solid, very much in-the-running, candidate.

Lastly, a mere 200-300 votes behind McCain and Thompson. That's pretty impressive. This means Paul can be called a "long-shot" and a "kook" but never outright dismissed as less of a candidate than any of the top 6 Republicans... at least until February 5th.

It was not a bad day in Iowa.
 
Change is not a paved road...there are certainly potholes along the way! Our message will eventually catch on and take the nation by storm!!
 
Cardinal Red said:
(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.


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But isn't (2) really this issue? Why on earth is this the case? Why on God's green earth was very little effort put into Iowa and not until very late? What am I missing here? The campaign knew as well as all of us did that showing well in early caucuses and primaries is fairly critical and yet - almost exactly as was done for the straw poll there - the real, significant effort was put in by grassroots people and not by the campaign. I'm just not getting it. I feel the same way as I felt at the time of the straw poll - if the campaign's intention was to more or less write off Iowa, they should let the grassroots know that so people can put their energy and money into other places. You know all this money we raise is great, bu the fact is, as long as the media gives a candidate like Huckabee - who started with no real support of any kind (except the Good Lord's, I guess) - free air time, it doesn't matter whether he has any money. That is exactly what happened in Iowa - the media offered up this folksy, self righteous Gomer Pyle character who talked about God a lot and had him on the air all the time talking about what a great and friendly guy he is and boom, suddenly Huckabee is a big player. If they had done the same for Ron Paul he would have come in first - he's folksy and likeable like Dr. Welby - and people would have eaten it up if he had been presented that way instead of as a fringe person.
 
The Machine said:
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.
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I agree, but, that same caller also said that there were 10 people at her house for a pre-caucus party, all were registered and were voting for Dr. Paul. She had nobody to babysit her 3 kids, and the next day was a school day. Kind of tough for her to leave them by themselves for 3 hours or more. However, I do agree with your general point.
 
I am a bit disappointed in not beating McCain, otherwise I am overall encouraged by the Iowa result, considering the format and the make up of the Iowan electorate (At least the ones who CAN caucus).
 
Cardinal Red said:
This is a myth I've seen repeated a few times because the Giuliani campaign is pushing it. It's true that he reduced his efforts late, but check out the tool below for the candidates Iowa schedules. You will see that Giuliani did more events in Iowa than we did.

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/schedules/pastevents/index.html#candidate99
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That's some great information there...we should all bookmark it.


If you click on Iowa on the right, then click on Ron Paul or Rudy, it's very evident that Rudy did many more events than Ron did.
 
Very good points. but we really need a better campaign structure.

Grassroots can't do it all.

They are dropping OUR ball.
 
Awesome post let's step up and support OUR grassroots projects and win NH and SC. Let me suggest www.ronpaulairforce.com Let's help those on the ground with a wow effect. I live in FLA and all those in my family have been calling me telling me I heard about the Blimp on TV or I saw the Blimp. The Air is very effective and it greatly helps those on the ground. cause we really need to get his name out there. We can WIN THIS THING!!!
 
BillyDkid said:
But isn't (2) really this issue? Why on earth is this the case? Why on God's green earth was very little effort put into Iowa and not until very late? What am I missing here? The campaign knew as well as all of us did that showing well in early caucuses and primaries is fairly critical and yet - almost exactly as was done for the straw poll there - the real, significant effort was put in by grassroots people and not by the campaign. I'm just not getting it. I feel the same way as I felt at the time of the straw poll - if the campaign's intention was to more or less write off Iowa, they should let the grassroots know that so people can put their energy and money into other places. You know all this money we raise is great, bu the fact is, as long as the media gives a candidate like Huckabee - who started with no real support of any kind (except the Good Lord's, I guess) - free air time, it doesn't matter whether he has any money. That is exactly what happened in Iowa - the media offered up this folksy, self righteous Gomer Pyle character who talked about God a lot and had him on the air all the time talking about what a great and friendly guy he is and boom, suddenly Huckabee is a big player. If they had done the same for Ron Paul he would have come in first - he's folksy and likeable like Dr. Welby - and people would have eaten it up if he had been presented that way instead of as a fringe person.
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Maybe because they didn't know they were getting $6M until Dec 17th! The moneybombs made great pub, but they did make it a bit more difficult on the campaign. I certainly held back to participate and make it big.

Most importantly though: we were within 3% of being ECSTATIC!!!!

How can that be bad?

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