PPP shows how caucus speeches will be most effectively broken down.

[blamx8]

The poll lays out the % of time a good speaker should spend on each issue in question #17

Q17 Which of the following things is most important to you when deciding how to vote: jobs and the economy, government spending and reducing the debt, taxes, social issues like gay marriage and abortion, illegal immigration, or foreign policy and national security?

Government spending, reducing the debt ........... 38%
Jobs/economy................................................. 26%
Social issues .................................................. 10%
Foreign policy/national security........................... 4%
Illegal Immigration .......................................... 4%
Taxes ............................................................. 3%
Someone (Something?) else ..................... 3%
Not sure ......................................................... 11%

Obviously, the big three play very well to Ron Paul. It may be wise to structure speeches according to what people have indicated is important to them.

 

[pauliticalfan]

"Writing Ron Paul on your ballot writes $1 trillion off the budget."

I really think this line should be in people's speeches. Help spread the word if you like it.

 

[blamx8]

Looks like I was a bit slow. Mods may want to combine this with the other link that has similar info.

 

[rblgenius]

Looks like I was a bit slow. Mods may want to combine this with the other link that has similar info.

Haha no problem. We are all reading the reports and need to get this information out.

 

[blamx8]

@ Pauliticalfan,
Something like that as an ending would be great to leave him on their minds.

 

[tbone717]

Please take note that people do not care about foreign policy. The only people that care are Paul supporters and the neo-con talking heads. Voters obviously do not, and this is not the only poll that I have seen this. I hope the campaign realizes this when giving out tips for caucus speeches.

 

[ssmoler]

Please take note that people do not care about foreign policy. The only people that care are Paul supporters and the neo-con talking heads. Voters obviously do not, and this is not the only poll that I have seen this. I hope the campaign realizes this when giving out tips for caucus speeches.

Foreign policy ties directly in with the big ticket issue - SPENDING!!

 

[seapilot]

Yes foreign policy might get some undecideds to jump aboard, but really as been mentioned before "Its the economy stupid!"

 

[Darthbrooklyn]

Man I wish I was in Iowa.. I would love to give a caucus speech

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

I believe most Republican voters agree with Ron Paul on his Economic policy.

Ron Paul needs to focus on foreign policy and Israel. In the National Election, he can focus on Economics again.

 

[ronpaulitician]

Broken down by candidate:

Government spending/reducing the debt
Paul 21
Romney 21
Santorum 20

Jobs/economy
Romney 29
Paul 19
Santorum 12

Social issues
Santorum 33
Paul 17
Romney 7

Based on this, if the room is full of Santorum leaners, stay away from social issues and focus on jobs/economy. If the room is full of Romney leaners, stay away from jobs/economy and focus on social issues. But the safe bet is government spending, where Paul has an effective "cut $1 trillion year one" message.

 

[jjockers]

Some people may not understand the significance of a $1 trillion year one cut. What's the most that's ever been cut in a year in recorded history? Similarly, how often has a budget been less than the prior year? Knowing these may help with prepare the speeches.

 

[economics102]

The only context in which foreign policy will be important on caucus night is in rebutting the anti-Paul speakers who try to use foreign policy as a bogeyman tactic to scare people away from Paul. So the right response is to have a quick but aggressive response that turns those attacks back on the attackers. Like this:

"Those who say a nuclear Iran is an existential threat which requires America to plunge into another disastrous, DANGEROUS, economy-ruining war, might do well to note that Iraq's current and former heads of security agree with RON PAUL that even if Iran became a nuclear power, there is no chance they would be so stupid as to attack Israel. Ron Paul thinks the heads of security in Israel have a better understanding of what is and isn't a threat to their national security than a bunch of fear-mongering politicians who supported the last war which was also complete disaster that saddled this economy with $4 trillion in debt."

 

[Electric Church]

Ron Paul’s message is very effective when he links government spending and reducing debt equally with foreign policy because trillions in overseas spending resulting from flawed foreign policy is where the major cuts will be from and being commander-in-chief he can implement those cuts almost immediately.

 

[jjockers]

In my experience, discussing the merits of war with iran/iraq is not good for fox news listeners (typical GOP). Instead, emphasize our greatest threat as currency collapse (with historic examples), and state that our enemies know this. We spend more on our defense than all other countries combined -- we could obliterate Iran. The only way "our enemies" can win is if we spread ourselves too thin and spend too much in the process. And that's exactly what's happening.

Sometimes it helps to throw in the China + Russia connection with Iran. Most GOP know that we're hugely indebted to China and they therefore hold a trump card (albeit near suicidal).

But yes, based on these poll results, it's probably not a good idea to bring up foreign policy.

 

[blamx8]

It may work to tie foreign policy in in that context. If others try slamming RP because of foreign policy, I think a good strong, sensible response that turns it back like econ said is a decent idea.
Keep in mind that pg32 shows almost 1/2 (44%) of those that may change their mind have 'govt spending/reducing the debt' as the #1 issue. I like the idea of ending with "a vote for RP is a vote to reign in out of control spending by 1 trillion dollars. You won't get that with anyone else."

 

[Electric Church]

But yes, based on these poll results, it's probably not a good idea to bring up foreign policy.

The poll is for the purpose of finding out what is most important to voters but all those items are interlinked thus it would not be wise for speech content to be weighted precisely to those percentages. Ron Paul distinguishes himself from the other candidates because he educates his audience (potential voters). You will never hear the other candidates link foreign policy, overseas spending and national debt. They just keep regurgitating the same thing they’ve been saying for years and the publics’ sick of it. In fact they’ll probably do precisely what some are suggesting… use that poll to structure their speeches.

Anyway… in the end it’s Ron’s choice and he’ll just keep doing what he’s been doing which is precisely what I’ve mentioned above.

 

[rnestam]

Winning the General. This is where foreign policy is hidden into the issues people care about. Even if every undecided in the room disagrees with RP this issue is important to bring up. why? The numbers say it, the people in the room could care less right now. Ron Paul's stance is known, not going to hurt him any to mention it again, the other speakers will actually all probably bring it up like its the end of the world and say he is dangerous blah blah blah. Let it be known:

"If you want to focus on the economy and creating jobs in the upcoming general election, if you really want to force Obama to defend his Socialism/Obamacare/Regulations/Taxation....then you need to vote for Ron Paul....if we send anyone else up there, anyone else..... you're going to have an army of mindless anti-war Obama-bots, millions of them, that are going to wake up from there slumber, forget Obama lied to them, get energized and go do his dirty ground work for him. Keep them home. Or better yet....lets take the youth votes, lets take the indy votes, lets take the anti-war votes and then lets go ahead and cut a trillion dollars off the budget in year one.....trillion."

 

[LibertyEagle]

The only context in which foreign policy will be important on caucus night is in rebutting the anti-Paul speakers who try to use foreign policy as a bogeyman tactic to scare people away from Paul. So the right response is to have a quick but aggressive response that turns those attacks back on the attackers. Like this:

"Those who say a nuclear Iran is an existential threat which requires America to plunge into another disastrous, DANGEROUS, economy-ruining war, might do well to note that Iraq's current and former heads of security agree with RON PAUL that even if Iran became a nuclear power, there is no chance they would be so stupid as to attack Israel. Ron Paul thinks the heads of security in Israel have a better understanding of what is and isn't a threat to their national security than a bunch of fear-mongering politicians who supported the last war which was also complete disaster that saddled this economy with $4 trillion in debt."

Did you mean to say, Israel's? Because in the next sentence you go on to talk about Israel. Also, do you have a link for this assertion? Thanks.

 

[Karsten]

When you're in a 3 way tie in a must win race, I simply can't IMAGINE a time when caucus speeches are more important.