We hit every precinct Republican for $200 and one evening...*pic heavy*

[mexicanpizza]

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Hey there....thought I would document what my wife and I decided to do in our precinct. We are both shy and very busy so canvassing has been hard to get time/nerve (but we're still going to try! )

We decided to send out a personal letter to every Republican in our precinct. It's fairly simple to move the precinct addresses into a useful, automatable format...in my case I imported everything into Excel and filtered for Republicans and duplicates in the same household with the same last name. This amounted to ~450 voters in ~348 households.

Then we wrote and printed our personal letter, and put a candidate comparison and some RP quotes on the back. We addressed all of them using Word and a mail merge using Excel as the data source. Printing 350 double sided letters took less than an hour using our $99 laser printer.

Here is our precinct mapped using http://batchgeocode.com (AWESOME site for mapping addresses en masse):

Stack of letters...you can get an idea of the candidate comparison:

Stick in a slim jim:

Sit and fold/stuff for ~2 hours:

The finished product:

Total breakdown:

Joining voters.ronpaul2008.com		$0
Download precinct voter info		$0
Reformat in excel, filter Republicans	$0
Map people @ batchgeocode.com		$0
Ream of 24# bright white laser paper	$7.99
Box of 500 windowed envelopes		$18.99
Print 350 double sided b&w flyers	$ ?? (cheap on home laser)
350 Slim Jims				free from meetup
2 hours folding/stuffing with wife	$0
Postage (350*0.41)			$143
Total cost				$170

Homes/voters reached: 350 / ~440


Our letter is hosted here (WORD DOC), and (PDF)

Get out there people. After I send these, I'm calling as many as I can this weekend.

If anyone needs help with list formatting/filtering, let me know!



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[SonicInfinity]

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[faisal]

bump

 

[Opulen]

Awesome! awesome awesome Thank you so much. Go win Ron Paul!!

 

[amonasro]

Wow, just amazing

 

[Jmaths117]

Wow!

 

[BreakYourChains]

Nice job!

 

[jonahtrainer]

That is awesome! I should use that letter for the houses where people aren't home. Currently, I leave the Founding Father's flyer.

 

[NOLA]

thank you...you guys rock!!!

 

[DirtMcGirt]

Nice work!!!

 

[hopeforamerica]

Great job!! I'm busy during the weekends when most people are home. So I burned 600 DVDs that I'm putting on my precincts door knobs. I also gave an email. Can't wait to see if I get any responses. If anyone is interested, this is where I got the idea:

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/27772

 

[Lord Xar]

Hey, can I have a pdf/word doc of your candidate comparision???

Also, did you 'hand address' each or did you print them out and put them in the envelopes window?

 

[Lord Xar]

Great job!! I'm busy during the weekends when most people are home. So I burned 600 DVDs that I'm putting on my precincts door knobs. I also gave an email. Can't wait to see if I get any responses. If anyone is interested, this is where I got the idea:

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/27772

Did you compile all the videos? where are the sources of the youtube videos? I am having a brain fart, ahhaha.. how do you compile them..

IF you did it already, can you post it somewhere for each download so we can burn our own?

 

[mexicanpizza]

Hey Lord, there is a link at the end of the post! And we did the latter...I would've liked to hand address them but I can't imagine how long that would take. Windowed envelopes, and the address printed at the right spot on the top of the letter.

hopeforamerica, how did you burn 600 dvds?!

 

[Lord Xar]

Hey Lord, there is a link at the end of the post! And we did the latter...I would've liked to hand address them but I can't imagine how long that would take. Windowed envelopes, and the address printed at the right spot on the top of the letter.

hopeforamerica, how did you burn 600 dvds?!

I was told to leave out the "war" issue - and that dvd, has an "end the war" video (second one)... how has your feelings been in San Diego? I am in Los Angeles.

 

[MikeStanart]

For those of you with kids...

This would be a great way to make them earn their allowance!

 

[Highstreet]

Book mark

 

[hopeforamerica]

Hey Lord, there is a link at the end of the post! And we did the latter...I would've liked to hand address them but I can't imagine how long that would take. Windowed envelopes, and the address printed at the right spot on the top of the letter.

hopeforamerica, how did you burn 600 dvds?!

Well....... a friend let me borrow their duplicator. 22 at a time. It took me about 3.5 hours to burn them, and another 1.5 hours to put them in sleeves and label them. Probably another 20 hours to deliver them.

This DVD has been used by another in my group and he is getting a 30 to 50% positive response rate!!! I can't wait to see if it holds true for the ones I put out. I've got my map ready to go all day tomorrow!

 

[dvictr]

AWESOME

thats grassroots support!


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[zcopley]

Thank you very much for posting the letter you sent. I'm a precinct leader and a former Democrat who registered repub (in CA) just to vote for Paul on Feb 5. I'm kinda shy myself, but what has really kept me from doing what you have done is that I feel like I don't feel like I know what to say to Republicans. I just have a sense that I need to somehow appeal to common sense. I'm half afraid that I'll do more damage than good. Maybe I can use your letter as a model.

Very inspiring post!

Zach