The Big Problem: how to make kids get out to vote?

[tangent4ronpaul]

I'm pretty sure the only real way to get kids out to vote is to offer them candy or something. It's just too easy when you're a kid to accept that your vote doesn't really count for much, and to let "the movement" carry you without actually needing to get involved.

That sounds really creepy...

 

[RDM]

bribe them with offers of free drugs and alcohol
threaten them via their parents with being grounded for life and no allowance
scare them with the prospects of a universal draft n endless war as well as no employment opportunities.

j/k - well mostly...

Yeah - this is really a 2 pipe question - eh Watson?

-t

If that doesn't convince them, say you'll throw in a bag of Doritos....it gets them all the time.

 

[parocks]

rave/free concert post event at a secret location post primary/caucus with pickup at the event...

yup.

And free beer at any bar.

And Kelly Clarkson just hanging out at a caucus.

Any of these ideas are good, all of these ideas are good.

A bar crawl, where a bunch of Ron Paul supporters just hit the bars prior to the caucus opening.

A limo would be cool.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

FLASH MOB it!

 

[parocks]

That sounds really creepy...

And yet

The Ron Paul Bar exists for that very purpose.

I handed out Ron Paul Bars at the caucus. Someone else brought candy. I had Ron Paul candy.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Kelly Clarkson....

OK - she's cute... who is she?

 

[parocks]

Go to a bar before the caucus.

Talk to the owner.

Can I give away free beer? If I give you money?

Owner might or might not say yet.

When the owner says yes, you say to everyone there, if we win tonight, there will be a keg of free pabst here tonight.

If we win by 20 votes, there will be 2 kegs.

40 votes, 3 kegs.

 

[parocks]

Kelly Clarkson....

OK - she's cute... who is she?

a singer. we have a lot of rock stars who support us. we could just pay them to go to a caucus and hang out.

 

[Mark37snj]

Tell the boys that girls will find them more attractive, tell the girls that it will make them more popular and that their girlfriends will envy them.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

And yet

The Ron Paul Bar exists for that very purpose.

I handed out Ron Paul Bars at the caucus. Someone else brought candy. I had Ron Paul candy.

Yeah - we had the RP wrappers for the mini-candy bars for halloween in 07/08 but still the whole "hay kid - want some candy...." thing is just WRONG!

-t

 

[parocks]

It's harder with a caucus because people have to arrive at a certain time. It's easier to do transportation with a regular primary vote because voting takes place all day long. In this case, transportation needs to be you filling every empty seat in your own car. (a metaphorical "you" if you do not live in MN)

In Maine, at least at the caucus I was at, there was a 2 stage process - at least an hour of speeches - and then the towns.

 

[parocks]

As impressive as the crowds look at Colorado State and Bethel University, it looks like they are garnering him virtually no votes.

If the campaign can figure out a way to hand out free Domino's Pizza and Pabst Blue ribbon to young Paul voters at every caucus location, it might help. But Ron Paul's time and energy would be better spent visiting twenty people in a Kiwanis Club instead of 2000 at Colorado State.

No, only at certain caucus locations. Like at Colorado State.

We have to have a large physical presence at the unis - moving people to the polls.

They like us, they just aren't good at voting.

 

[giovannile07]

One of my friends or this guy I know I mean, he's a huge Ron Paul supporter, but he doesn't want to register to vote because he doesn't want to do jury duty, what do I say to that?

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

No, only at certain caucus locations. Like at Colorado State.

We have to have a large physical presence at the unis - moving people to the polls.

They like us, they just aren't good at voting.

target the teachers - especially the ones that teach during voting time...

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

One of my friends or this guy I know I mean, he's a huge Ron Paul supporter, but he doesn't want to register to vote because he doesn't want to do jury duty, what do I say to that?

coach him on how to get out of jury duty - like being really bigoted against anything the accused is accused of.

 

[Lishy]

Ron Paul will let us smoke all the weed we want till the Statue of Liberty takes her clothes off!

That ought to get the kids out out to vote!

In all seriousness, I do feel we should emphasize that aspect of Paul's campaign, somehow. Not the message of drugs, but the liberties to do so.

 

[parocks]

Yep, this goes with Ron constantly hyping up his "young people" narrative in interviews as well, seniors over and over are the one's who vote in large numbers, not college kids, why does he keep preaching to the choir, get off the campuses and start going to bingo night at the local VFW.

We are doing better with 18-29 men. Make sure they vote.

That's what this thread is about.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

The fact is, if you are more concerned about sleeping in, because "going out" the night before is too important, you don't deserve freedom. Just get up and go vote! It's really not that difficult.

friends to make sure friends go vote... unless your friend sleeps in too lol.

 

[harikaried]

I was in Carson City and there were plenty of kids voting... Too bad these were the uninterested kids that the parents forced to go with them to vote for Romney/Gingrich.

 

[DamianTV]

Apathy towards Politics can not be solved with more of what causes that Apathy.