Where Are The Damn Polls!!

[LatinsforPaul]

Rand Paul calls for eliminating undercard debate

On Friday, Paul's campaign announced that it had secured more than 1,000 precinct captains in Iowa, where he averages 2 percent, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average of state polls. Paul noted that he had more precinct captains than his father, who won the most delegates in 2012, and almost as much as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum during the same election cycle, who won the popular vote.

"I think my dad in 2012 had about 600 precinct chairs. We have about 1,000," Paul said. "So, we've organized beyond their capacity in 2012. Rick Santorum with about a week to go in 2012 announced 1,100 precinct chairs, so to put it in perspective yeah, it's quite a feat."

 

[thatpeculiarcat]

Rand Paul calls for eliminating undercard debate

SANTORUM HAD 1,100 PRECINCT CHAIRS?!

I'm in shock and denial.

 

[hells_unicorn]

SANTORUM HAD 1,100 PRECINCT CHAIRS?!

I'm in shock and denial.

I'm not, it's what happens when you literally live in a state for an entire campaign and make all the right local connections. I've been periodically mocked by a few people on this forum for pointing out that retail politics works, PARTICULARLY in a place like Iowa. Rand played it smart by spreading out his influence to smaller areas and concentrating on a lot of these smaller precincts rather than just living at the college campuses and basking in arenas with thousands of supporters, many of whom went to every single rally.

Santorum got a nudge to help him over the edge in Iowa by the media, but he would not have pulled it off without actually have a strong ground game coinciding with it. Even if he had not have gotten that sudden media bump, Santorum would have probably pulled off a something around 20%. Thankfully he is not in such a strong position this time, in big part because he has to compete with Cruz, Huckabee and Carson for his "evangelical" niche.

 

[Brett85]

Is there any chance that the Des Moines Register will release a poll today? They usually release their poll Saturday afternoon.

 

[Jan2017]

Are they including the polls from before Christmas?

Fox Business when interviewing Rand on "media day" showed the national poll from Dec 12 - Dec 17 as current (need freeze frame to see that)

As one twitter comment said at Rand's New Year's resolution "tweetstorm". . .

From Festivus to New Year's, Rand Paul won the holidays

 

[Sunshine_State]

At the end of the interview with Kennedy, she said to Rand, "see you in next week's debate" or something like that. Does she know something or was it wishful thinking?

 

[EBounding]

I'm confident Rand will be in the debate one way or another. I actually think the networks want him there.

 

[squirl22]

He's been on just about every show out there in the last week

But he was totally ignored right after the last debate in which he really stood out. That is on purpose. They just did not talk about him at all. Then, if you have noticed, when they report the results of the polls, the main story only mentions the names of the top four...trump cruz rubio maybe carson....you have to go to the actual poll to find out how Rand or anyone else did...oh, they might mention bush. This is all on purpose...never putting his name out there

 

[CPUd]

http://randpaul.com

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...The-Final-Push!-Campaign-Calls-For-Volunteers

 

[nikcers]

I figured we would be getting more international feedback which would influence support as well. I mean what do Chinese people think about Trumps plan to curb trade deficits by making it harder for them to do business with us when that's the only thing keeping so many of them fed? How do the Russians think about Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, and Clinton's no fly zone policy that would have us shooting down their planes. Turkey already shot down one of their planes and I don't think we have heard the end of that yet. History shows Russia does not get mad, they get even.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Polling seems to have gone from two frequent to almost none since few weeks ago.

I can't think of anything Rand can say that would provide faster boost in his popularity with GOP base than some very attention grabbing attacks on "Barack Hussein Obama" that get lot of free media publicity.

 

[TheNewYorker]

Polling seems to have gone from two frequent to almost none since few weeks ago.

I can't think of anything Rand can say that would provide faster boost in his popularity with GOP base than some very attention grabbing attacks on "Barack Hussein Obama" that get lot of free media publicity.

He could say he's going to build a wall, deport Mexicans, nuke isis and take their oil and start kicking people out of his rallies. He would surely start surging in the polls

 

[Crashland]

I figured we would be getting more international feedback which would influence support as well. I mean what do Chinese people think about Trumps plan to curb trade deficits by making it harder for them to do business with us when that's the only thing keeping so many of them fed? How do the Russians think about Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, and Clinton's no fly zone policy that would have us shooting down their planes. Turkey already shot down one of their planes and I don't think we have heard the end of that yet. History shows Russia does not get mad, they get even.

The general public though doesn't understand why protectionist economic policies are bad. Most likely with the way the GOP base is now, criticism from other countries would help a candidate not hurt them, especially coming from places like Russia or China.

 

[derek4ever]

He could say he's going to build a wall, deport Mexicans, nuke isis and take their oil and start kicking people out of his rallies. He would surely start surging in the polls

How about he tries something new and says: "Mr. Obama should be impeached for his unconstitutional overreach!"? It couldn't hurt, could it?

 

[CPUd]

Yes, a brilliant strategy! Rand should promise if he is elected, he will force Obama out of office.

 

[nikcers]

The general public though doesn't understand why protectionist economic policies are bad. Most likely with the way the GOP base is now, criticism from other countries would help a candidate not hurt them, especially coming from places like Russia or China.

Obama has been one of the most popular world leaders of our recent history, and to that effect it has had a positive effect with our foreign policy. Hate Obama all you want, but a lot of other countries prefer Obama to Bush. Rand has even brought up the importance of the presidents international image/perception before and has even insinuated that Trump's behavior precludes him from holding office because his demeanor and behavior would influence and hurt our relationships with our allies and adversaries.