The Unofficial Feb 7th Results Thread

[PolicyReader]

STARTING to win is the hard part. AFter that people will see it as more likely and it should happen easier.

^This

 

[moonshine5757]

BS, your comments do not resemble constructive criticism in the least and instead remind me of the shrieking on elementary schoolyards

well that isn't my intent, i'm sorry you view that way.

 

[josun54]

RP

 

[parocks]

The youth vote turns out in proportion to it's share of the population.

no it doesn't less. but it depends on how much work we do to get them to the polls.

 

[VictorB]

Everyone get ready for the Mitt-bombs on Santo. Romney thought he was gonna coast. He will do to Santo what he did to Newt in Florida. It killed Newt's campaign.

 

[josun54]

is that like hemorrhagic fever of the brain/ass?

hahahahahahha

 

[Ssd]

This is just sad. Paul's best chance was Minnesota and we couldn't get the job done. Headlines will be about Santorum's big night and will leave out Paul's success. If Paul can't win Maine AND Washingtons, its over. At that points, its about delegates which means nothing if you have no victories.

 

[Okie RP fan]

I love this.

I love how we are all griping and tearing into each other tonight. We need this as a stress reliever.

So... What now?

 

[danny987]

I'm sure im going to get negged for this but... sooooooo.... muccccchhhhhh.... whining!

 

[dusman]

Getting tired of posting this... http://www.nationbuilder.com.

I'm extremely annoyed that we YET to have an organizational hub from the campaign. They want to duplicate Obama's delegate strategy without putting in place the tools that made it happen? E-mail is not going to cut it... ever.

Seriously, it would take the campaign less than $1,000 to implement and could be up and running in a week. They could then coordinate nationwide leadership and have a more balanced top-down approach to GOTV efforts. Just as Parocks pointed out, our 18-29 base is left isolated with little contact. They would be the ones that would use such a system and we'd start to see a significant shift in turnout, just as Obama leveraged effectively in 2008.

I have tried every approach at the campaign with this resource and they either just don't get its importance or look over it completely. The only alternative is to do what Obama did and build it from the ground up which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and 3-6 months. We are fortunate to have one available that was inspired directly from Obama's 08 campaign right at our disposal.. yet we don't use it. I think we just need to bombard them with thousands of e-mails about it, otherwise its not going to happen.

 

[Silverbug1980]

There is a minor blessing for me. When I move to Switzerland, I won't have television because me and my wife don't believe in it. I won't have to see any of this election crap, and can pretend American just doesn't exist. That sounds bad and all, but I've pretty much at this point written off this country as hopeless. Utterly hopeless.

I mean, Santorum? Come on, this guy advocates the government getting involved in people's sex life. I could have at least tolerated Romney. But seeing Santorum up there just makes me want to punch the tv.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Wow, Ari Fleischer, CNN commentator, doesn't even know Ron Paul is in second place in Minnesota. Know why? Cause Fleishcer's an ignorant prick AND because CNN hasn't even mentioned it. Pathetic.

 

[bbwarfield]

The youth vote is a myth the mms is spinning guys.... Do the math.... We can preach to 18-25 year old all day..... They will come out.... But there's never going to be enough of them.... It's not the baby boom.... Baby boomers are the decides cause there is so dang many! The 18- 25 is the smallest demographic you can possibly hope for! Think about it... Colleges are bigger cause government is subsidizing..... Most of the population growth is minorities that we do terrible with.... White middle class America has been aborting the Ron Paul voting block for 25 years now..... If he campaign doesn't go after baby boomers we are dead.... College kids are inning over college kids... So the rest of us win over the general population!

 

[steph3n]

This is feeling more like 2008 every day.

The campaign's focus seems to be on "education," not winning. Maybe they're right. Maybe the US isn't ready to choose liberty yet.

Isn't that clear? People are not ready, they want their military projections of power across the world and under your bed, and in your bed(santorum)

 

[pauliticalfan]

Santorum Dean Scream.

 

[KingNothing]

It was a good run, all in all. I don't want to be negative, and start talking about throwing in the towel...Just very hard to be positive..

Your focus is a bit off. We're making progress. That much is clear. We're winning delegates. That could end up meaning something.

And more importantly, we have a man running for office now who personifies consistency, principle, dignity and class completely and leads by example so perfectly that his supporters don't even realize it. We've already won, in the long run. And that's where you're focus needs to be --- change the course of history. Don't just win an election.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

Santorum has a "Dean Scream" in him. I can feel it.

 

[moonshine5757]

i am curious to see what type of ads Mitt Romney runs against Santorum

 

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[neverseen]

Mitt is getting squashed. So much for Mr Nominee. Someone else mentioned that he was not planning on a long campaign after Florida and Nevada.

Yah, you guys already knew this was going to be brokered. We already knew we were after the delegates. We already knew Romney was going to crush everyone. And yet, here mitt sits. Near the basement with newt. Ron and Sant had a good showing today. These 3 states will impact the falilng Romney more.

It sucks we still haven't won.. but it was pretty telling when CNN was going over delegates that they "give maine to paul"

This just keeps it a 4 man race by having santy on top and mitt on the bottom.