Scary Poll! Stay away! DANGER!

[ronpaulfan]

Tricked you in here

I couldn't call the thread "Meetup Poll" or only the people that go to them would click on it.

Please be honest!! This is an important question so we can gauge how many of us actually attend them!


http://ronpaul.meetup.com

 

[justinc.1089]

Shame on you who have never been! tis tis tis.

I try to go each week. My group meets once a week, but I wasn't able to make one thanks to college.

Its not only important to go to the meetings, but to also try to get other people to go to the meetings as well. Then you and others can promote Paul in person to people, which is much more effective than on the internet. And we've had that part covered for a long time anyway lol.

 

[DealzOnWheelz]

you should put the correct title on this and more people will vote

 

[RPinSEAZ]

We've only had one so far. Damn, not that I think about it I should have chosen that I never missed one.

 

[AlexMerced]

Cab't yet, I'm in the middle of a move between OH and NY, and there's a really annoying stay in CT for amonth in between that. Though it's given me the ability to spred the word across state lines. Damn college graduation

 

[AlexMerced]

I do most of my Paulin here and @ my.ronpaulspace.com

 

[saahmed]

Never been able to make it due to school and work.

 

[r3volution]

not voting .

 

[llamabread]

For the record I'm not in our local meetup. The meetup site has a requirement of being 18 years of age (I'm 16). Not that that would stop me from signing up, but all the extracurricular crap that you have to do to get into a decent college these days takes up alot of time.

 

[10thAmendmentMan]

I went to a local gun show to hand out literature. There were about 2X as many people as we needed and none of my gun- or Paul-related knowledge was required as no one wanted to discuss anything with us. Other than that, nothing has been in my area (within a 1/2 hour drive).

 

[ronpaulfan]

wow. The thread title was actually appropriate! These numbers are scary! :o

 

[American]

I went to a few meetup meetings, to many 911 truthers, purest libertarians, and voter fraud people for me.

The only thing that I know they have done was throw a BBQ for the local Libertarian candidate......=\

 

[garrettwombat]

i go at least twice a week and i drop slim jims wherever i go when im not campaigning

 

[garrettwombat]

wow i really want to know who those people who havnt done anything yet because its prob the same people on here who always b*tch and say "instead of complaining go out and do something"

 

[inibo]

My meetup has a few 9/11 Truth folks who have made sure that no one who shows up for their first meeting ever comes back. At one point we had about 20 people. I'd be surprised if three show up now.

I pamphlet on my own and talk to my friends and coworkers instead.

 

[justinc.1089]

Wow ok when I put my earlier post on here practically no one had taken this poll and I expected the numbers to show most people going to the meetups.

People if you don't go to the meetups and coordinate REAL LIFE grassroots efforts for Paul HOW are people going to find out about him? The media?

You MUST actually organize ways to reach tons of people at one time. Local festivals and colleges and such are good places to go to. Just go, set up a booth, and have tons of slimjims and knowledge on hand to give out. And while you're there don't just sit behind the booth either, thats what the other people would do. Go walk around and hand out the slimjims while carrying around a Ron Paul sign. You will give out like 10x the number of slimjims that way.

Lets put it this way:

How many people I reach through myspace: 312 so far

How many people I reached in 1 day at the last event I was able to make with my meetup: 400!!!

Did you see that number? 400- in 1 day

Thats much faster than using myspace. We gave out material to about 1600 people that day overall. And I promise you the majority of those people don't get on the internet, so they would not have been reached otherwise.

We MUST reach people that are not on the internet. And you MUST get to your meetup groups meetings and you MUST help out with every event you can.

If your group is not planning events get it going. Find colleges and festivals that towns hold and contact the people you need to and then send out an email to the meetup group asking people to help you organize the event. Town festivals will probably require paying for a booth of course, but colleges won't probably charge to do something there. You could just go and hand out slimjims to students, or put slimjims on the students' cars in the parking lot, or both.

JUST DO SOMETHING IN THE REAL WORLD PLEASE!!!! lol

 

[justinc.1089]

My meetup has a few 9/11 Truth folks who have made sure that no one who shows up for their first meeting ever comes back. At one point we had about 20 people. I'd be surprised if three show up now.

I pamphlet on my own and talk to my friends and coworkers instead.

Well politely ask them not to bring it up at the meeting since it is about Ron Paul and not 9/11 afterall. Explain to them they're running people off and they need to stop. If that does not work then politely ask the meetup group organizer to remove them from the group on the site and email list or whatever. I know how you feel, there's one truther in my group as well, and its quite annoying. Luckily he isn't always there though.

 

[Buzz]

I've been to more than 5, but I go less than once or twice a week (mainly because of school).

 

[RonPaulStreetTeam]

I rarely go, I do things on my own.
I often run into them at major events here though where I'm out pushing Ron paul.

the reason I do NOT go is because from my experience it is a lot of sitting around and talking about Ron paul to each other.
I want to be out on the streets, not at ome coffee shop making friends with people who like Ron paul.

 

[RonPaulStreetTeam]

which is why I created my website.
STREET TEAM

not coffee shop meetups.