jbuttell
02-02-2008, 02:31 AM
Last weekend I had a less than successful go at canvassing my precinct It was raining pretty hard... getting past my nervousness wasn't easy - but I went door to door, simply to be greeted by people who were usually 'busy.' I respectfully left them in peace, but this stuff is definitely thankless ;D Doors closed on me... address after address located in gated apartment complexes... I decided to go home after a couple hours of that and figured I'd try and make up some lost ground by calling people.
What I'm a little confused about though - is that on Ron Paul's website, it sort of implies that one should not bringing up Ron Paul during the VoterID stage - almost try and hide who you are representing when asking the questions by suggesting that you introduce yourself as "Presidential Primary Preference" rather than "a volenteer for Ron Paul" However, reading posts on here I get the impression that many of you often jump right to it, telling people about Ron Paul.
Being that this is our LAST weekend here in California, how useful is this VoterID stage? I'd feel far more comfortable being up front with people, letting them know that I'm a Ron Paul volunteer and get right to the point. The info that I report back into the database, is it useful to Ron Paul in the short-term? In other words, what will Ron Paul's campaign do with that information from say... data entered Sunday night through the time in which we vote the following tuesday?
With what I understand, here's my plan of attack for my last weekend:
I'm just going to rip through my precint list of phone numbers, VoterID them for Ron Paul and immediately offer to provide them with any information (litterally hand deliver some slimjims to them if they'd like) - on the day we vote, I'll give every voter I've IDed as a Ron Paul supporter a reminder call to GOTV.
This sound ok? Any tips, please - i'm all ears.
.jeremy
What I'm a little confused about though - is that on Ron Paul's website, it sort of implies that one should not bringing up Ron Paul during the VoterID stage - almost try and hide who you are representing when asking the questions by suggesting that you introduce yourself as "Presidential Primary Preference" rather than "a volenteer for Ron Paul" However, reading posts on here I get the impression that many of you often jump right to it, telling people about Ron Paul.
Being that this is our LAST weekend here in California, how useful is this VoterID stage? I'd feel far more comfortable being up front with people, letting them know that I'm a Ron Paul volunteer and get right to the point. The info that I report back into the database, is it useful to Ron Paul in the short-term? In other words, what will Ron Paul's campaign do with that information from say... data entered Sunday night through the time in which we vote the following tuesday?
With what I understand, here's my plan of attack for my last weekend:
I'm just going to rip through my precint list of phone numbers, VoterID them for Ron Paul and immediately offer to provide them with any information (litterally hand deliver some slimjims to them if they'd like) - on the day we vote, I'll give every voter I've IDed as a Ron Paul supporter a reminder call to GOTV.
This sound ok? Any tips, please - i'm all ears.
.jeremy