Ron Paul started to tone down his campaign following Super Tuesday; he needed to compete in a primary for his House seat, and frankly, I think he’s just old and probably getting a little tired, even though he still is campaigning, and actively was campaigning in Pennsylvania. Therefore, my opportunities for participation in his campaign [...]
Sign Bombing
(This is not my picture-just an example. It belongs to the Wheeling, IL meetup)
After the office shut down the calling, there was a meetup in the lobby of the office-well, the lobby was the office. Just to give you a little idea of the power of meetup, 5 people signed up for the [...]
My day at the office
Frustrated at my failures to make a difference through precinct-leading, I decided to head down to the Ron Paul campaign office. I had heard they needed help making calls before the election Feb. 5th, so I decided to head down there. Why I wanted to put myself through the torture of making calls [...]
Precinct Leading Day 2
This day really brought the bad/disconnected number issue to an extreme as you can see in the call sheets:
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You might notice I didn’t bother to redact some of the numbers towards the end. Take a closer look. It’s because they’re all the same. And they’re all bad-just one bad number repeated for [...]
Precinct Leading Day 1
I can’t really say what initially caused me to want to be a precinct leader for Ron Paul. I had no idea what it was, and I certainly had no idea what I was getting myself into. The major lesson I learned from this experience is that cold calling people-particularly about politics-is the [...]
How to be a Ron Paul precinct leader
So you want to be a Ron Paul precinct leader. Well here goes. It basically involves three steps: Identification, Conversion and “get out the vote.”
Here is how the Ron Paul website described the Identification process:
Voter ID is as easy as contacting the voters on your precinct list, either by phone or in person, [...]
