zakkubin
01-28-2008, 11:11 PM
At 5pm today my local meetup group organized about 25 people to do the standard sign waving.
We took over a very busy intersection that the evening traffic is bottle necked through. ( 5 lanes )
The effective part: Rather than just waving signs we carried hundreds of misc. slim Jims with us. When the light was red we all ran out and took literature to a vehicle of our choosing. So the fun part was converting someone in 30 seconds! When the cross walk started blinking it was our cue to run to the other traffic light that was about to turn red. ( repeated for 3 hours )
Mall security tried to run us off their grass but we defeated them...
To top things off a state police officer showed up and just asked us to be careful and stayed to keep an eye on us. ( He will be voting Paul )
As far as the 30 second conversion it was only the people that openly stated support for another candidate. I just gambled with the Hillary people and said, "you know she voted for the war right" many had no idea. With Obama people I brought up the REAL ID issue & Patriot Act, Huck- 45% tax increase, McCain- No explanation to fund war.
Anyways I'm sure this has been done but just wanted to share our success tonight.
P.S. the local news showed up to film some of it.
P.P.S. many said they were already voting Paul. For these people we placed a bumper sticker on their car. ( with their permission of course )
P.P.P.S. The trick is to target the high success vehicles first. ( people you can tell will probably talk to you ) If the cars behind these see their fellow citizens accepting the information they are much more apt to take it. The key to this is to bring GIRLS/WOMEN. Send them to the guys and they literally role the window down before they realize they are even offering literature.
:)
We took over a very busy intersection that the evening traffic is bottle necked through. ( 5 lanes )
The effective part: Rather than just waving signs we carried hundreds of misc. slim Jims with us. When the light was red we all ran out and took literature to a vehicle of our choosing. So the fun part was converting someone in 30 seconds! When the cross walk started blinking it was our cue to run to the other traffic light that was about to turn red. ( repeated for 3 hours )
Mall security tried to run us off their grass but we defeated them...
To top things off a state police officer showed up and just asked us to be careful and stayed to keep an eye on us. ( He will be voting Paul )
As far as the 30 second conversion it was only the people that openly stated support for another candidate. I just gambled with the Hillary people and said, "you know she voted for the war right" many had no idea. With Obama people I brought up the REAL ID issue & Patriot Act, Huck- 45% tax increase, McCain- No explanation to fund war.
Anyways I'm sure this has been done but just wanted to share our success tonight.
P.S. the local news showed up to film some of it.
P.P.S. many said they were already voting Paul. For these people we placed a bumper sticker on their car. ( with their permission of course )
P.P.P.S. The trick is to target the high success vehicles first. ( people you can tell will probably talk to you ) If the cars behind these see their fellow citizens accepting the information they are much more apt to take it. The key to this is to bring GIRLS/WOMEN. Send them to the guys and they literally role the window down before they realize they are even offering literature.
:)