The Hidden Secret- Did you know?

[mokkan88]

Wow. Important question: We need five wins. Do these count towards them?

Someone needs to contact those meetup groups!

 

[DirtMcGirt]

love there baseball in puerto rico... maybe a way to secure there delegates???

 

[mokkan88]

Bump!

 

[Emc2]

I took a random look at some of the American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands RP meetup groups and only found 2 people registered in a Guam group -- but no active links to their email or anything... How can we reach the Republican party in these places? or somehow get the RP message out over there?

 

[JustAnAmerican]

We could write letters, make phone calls to anyone we might know over there. We can encourage Dr. Paul to launch a "US Territories" tour. Hell, we could even fly an operative or two to these places to go door to door.

Anyone want to volunteer to be a precinct leader in Guam?

 

[mokkan88]

bump

 

[BreakYourChains]

So everyone knows about the 50 states with delegates, but did you know about Guam, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa which have delegates?

Yes, I doubt any candidate did sh-t here, but combined these terrorities give 50 delegates, Puerto Rico with the most having 23 alone.

So do we have this covered, cuz if not and IF we have time then we need to get these places full of RP delegates if the time hasn't ended. This will be a brokered convention so EVERY ONE counts!!! If we can get these FREEBIES, all will be good!!!

Just wondering if anyone knew this, cuz if not we need to find out the info. BTW I got this from wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008#_note-14

Yes, and Northern Mariana Islands have 9 as well, for a total of 59!

 

[JustAnAmerican]

Just found this at primarilypaul.com!

"I got an email back from the Republican Party of American Samoa. Since American Samoa isn’t a state they do not participate in federal elections, but can participate in the Republican National Convention. The email says all one has to do is be registered to vote, show up at the convention, join and pay dues at the door if not already a member, then vote for Ron Paul."

http://www.primarilypaul.com/2007/10/29/email-from-american-samoa-about-their-republican-primary/

So... would a win here count towards our brokered convention?!

 

[humanic]

http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/

Not that these results mean much of anything, but interesting nonetheless:

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.) Votes for:
14 votes for Ron Paul
1 vote for Duncan Hunter
1 vote for Fred Thompson

SAMOA Votes for:
5 votes for Ron Paul
1 vote for Sam Brownback

PUERTO RICO Votes for:
29 votes for Ron Paul
2 votes for Rudy Giuliani
1 vote for Bill Richardson

GUAM Votes for:
12 votes for Ron Paul
1 vote for Fred Thompson

 

[literatim]

Maybe grassroots should start advertising in U.S. territories?

 

[literatim]

Guam does have influence in the national presidential race, although these convention delegates are elected by local party conventions rather than voters in primaries.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam

 

[luvthedoc08]

holy f-ing mother f-er, how did none of us catch on to this sooner, this is definitely our trojan horse, what else do those territories want but freedom! we must spread the message! and i'll go to puerto rico in a heartbeat.

 

[mxktm185]

Maybe grassroots should start advertising in U.S. territories?

Definitely! Anyone know supporters living in or familiar with any of these territories that could head up an advertising effort?

And does anyone have a way of finding out if HQ has any strategy towards these territories & grabbing these valuable delegates?

 

[mxktm185]

...this is definitely our trojan horse, what else do those territories want but freedom! we must spread the message! and i'll go to puerto rico in a heartbeat.

Hmmm...what are Vijay and the OLFD people doing now? This could be a perfect opportunity for a similar operation, and could really have a dramatic impact.

I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find some volunteers willing to spend a couple weeks campaigning in the tropics.

 

[jordie]

I think this is brilliant. We need to get ads down there... Lets check out the local papers, see if we can get some adverts there. If the only adverts they see is Ron Paul, who do you think they will vote for?

Nevada showed us this tactic of campaigning where others don't, DOES work...

 

[jordie]

bump... we need to get on this idea!

 

[Paulbot_9876]

people are allready on this.....mwaahaahaahaaa but can use some extra help now since the cat is out of the bag to make sure we secure this pronto now.....no time to waiste people...

 

[GHoeberX]

Feb 16 - Guam - caucus - 9
Feb 23 - US Virgin Islands - caucus - 9
Feb 24 - Puerto Rico - primary - 23
Mar 1 - American Samoa - caucus - 9
TBD - Northern Marianas - caucus - 9

But all of states include the 3 party leaders, so there's only:

* 6 at-large delegates from American Samoa.
* 16 at-large delegates from the District of Columbia.
* 6 at-large delegates from Guam.
* 6 at-large delegates from Northern Mariana Islands
* 20 at-large delegates from Puerto Rico.
* 6 at-large delegates from Virgin Islands.

Source: http://www.republicansource.com/primaries.htm

 

[JohnnyWrath]

These are all establishment votes are they not....does the general public even vote? I doubt it...the political party leaders there will....establishment vote.

 

[celticsman7]

American Somoa has a population of 57,000. Our guy would probably only need about 500 - 1000 votes.