The Official Ames Straw Poll Thread

Cain on C-SPAN - announcement of "results soon" on Fox, then gout commercial.
 
AdamT said:
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Forget the Collins; that is one sweet boater that gentleman is sporting!
 
parocks said:
Blimp was $750K
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I mean I don't want to completely poo poo on the whole idea of the blimp because 2007-2008 we were very creative and had a set of challenges before us that we didn't really know how to combat so we tried to fight it in different ways. Primarily the media was our main opponent so we had to do some crazy things to get name recognition out. Some of the ideas that came out of the grassroots for example the "Revolution" although hated by the official campaign became very effective in motivating our activists and recruited new activists. Anyone remember Anita going around the country telling us what not to do? For example don't put up those damn Revolution banners? And yet the Revolution banners for the amount of money spent on them i would say was pretty effective tool.

However nothing can diminish the incredible need to have actually physical human beings in the early states doing the work that is needed. Now some said this time around we are letting the official campaign take the lead as though they were doing good things in 2007/2008 and grassroots just had it all wrong. That's not right either. They had lots of money we sent in and I know first hand that certain areas of New Hampshire we did not have official campaign materials, specific issue slim jims for example that people that were opening doors to us were asking about. They also could have bussed up people to NH and did not instead it again was the grassroots that were doing what they could to pay for gas and carpool up to NH to pitch in.

Honestly I don't care if it's the official campaign or the grassroots that does it as long as the actual work that is needed to win gets done this time in plenty of time to do it before election day. Would hate to see us scrambling at the last second running into the same problems we ran into before. We need to learn from our past to win this time.

But yea imagine how many buses and hotel rooms and vans could have been purchased with 750k and what kind of impact it could have had.
 
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SimpleName said:
Seriously? They left him out of that? I don't even remember that. I might not have been in it at that point, but ugh. That is pretty sick.
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Ohh you have no idea. That kind of crap happened routinely. My personal favorite was in (I think) the NH primary coverage, CNN for about 3 hours of coverage repeatedly put up a pie chart showing results as the votes came in. They showed Giuliani with a 10% slice. Paul had around 12%, but instead of showing him on the pie chart, they just lumped him in with the "other" slice which comprised like 14% or so. It was such a blatant swipe, crazy.
 
My position on Iran would be simple.

It does not matter if Iran gets nuclear weapons. Russia, China, Pakistan, and many other nations already have nuclear weapons. If you want to make having nuclear weapons into what makes a nation evil, then why don't we just and invade China! Hey, we might lose 500,000 troops, but it would be to keep America safe! It might bankrupt us, but we can always print money until a loaf of bread is five hundred dollars!
 
economics102 said:
Ohh you have no idea. That kind of crap happened routinely. My personal favorite was in (I think) the NH primary coverage, CNN for about 3 hours of coverage repeatedly put up a pie chart showing results as the votes came in. They showed Giuliani with a 10% slice. Paul had around 12%, but instead of showing him on the pie chart, they just lumped him in with the "other" slice which comprised like 14% or so. It was such a blatant swipe, crazy.
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I was around for much of that, but I think the straw poll last time was before I fell in love with liberty. I do remember the majority of the sickening media tricks.
 
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