Video: Ron Paul - "(NH) If we bomb here, we're not worth our salt."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LIBTFIMzlU

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(Re-posting some information below, since the above video further supports the argument that NH is of highest priority and we need to funnel more volunteers and resources to NH if our grassroots part of the campaign is serious.)

Only way we can win NH and I'm going to assume most other preliminary states is if we have this x1000:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8R8CGUa8Ak


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTwHvehP50

Some quotes from a dedicated member Operation Live Free or Die back in early December 2007:


we do not have near enough people yet, we do need A LOT MORE boots on the ground, please if u know someone that can take a week or two off work SEND THEM TO ME so i can get them up here.


right now we have about 40 people canvassing door to door SEVEN DAYS A WEEK not just on weekends... thats what OFLD is all about, getting people up here to help us... 40 people can not cover this state in the next month, we do have more coming, a lot more, i think 100 or so for sure are coming for the entire month and another 100 are coming for at least 2 weeks but thats not enough we need 1,000 people here canvassing 7 days a week

A thousand people was an estimate that I agreed with back then, but thinking now that most people can only really make it up there on weekends it's probably closer to at least 2000 or 3000. Without some strong and serious organization by either the official campaign to do this like starting now or from some major donor willing to sponsor activists to come from different parts of the country now not sure how this is possible, but it is serious work that needs to start happening soon. Grassroots needs to take this on if the official campaign can't or won't so someone will need to step up to the plate to keep NH in play, rest of you guys need to do something as well to help the early states out now. Don't get me wrong funding for commercials and media coverage is important but so is the physical boots on the ground work.

You would be surprised (or maybe not) at how many Americans are out of touch with primaries/caucuses even in states like New Hampshire and Iowa which are states with citizens that supposedly take elections more seriously. Most Americans just live there lives and unless someone literally knocks on their door to let them know what is going on they won't know what is possible and how we can change the country for the better. Don't let us repeat 2007 we need lots of people in the early states to combat Romney's money which you know he will be using to hire people, other candidates may go to the churches to look for volunteers like Huckabee did. We need to come up with actionable ideas to this challenge now instead of just assuming we will win states.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9X5yWWlb2U
(Just showing this as an example of what needs to happen, this was a project in 2007-2008 and currently inactive, although I would like to see the official campaign lead an operation like this since it is so closely tied to canvassing, calls, etc. which the official campaign will be leading anyway in those states they can also hire people to help supplement the volunteers so that the numbers are there to make a difference. Otherwise someone in the grassroots needs to take this on to get the volunteers to where they need to be, 40 or 100 people per state is not enough.)

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Additionally I do have to say reading some of the posts others have made calling for having guaranteed wins in NH the past couple of weeks on forums is a bit alarming. Considering how much is at stake and the shortage of volunteers that is still needed we need to change the view that NH is a done deal and start to take serious steps to ensure victory. Here are some examples:


He will win NH if election fraud doesn't occur like 2008.

Election fraud had nothing to do with it, I was there the months leading up to the NH primary and it was painfully obvious as it was to others that we had a serious problem with the amount of supporters in NH to do the GOTV work needed to win. For more information and if you guys seriously want to win NH this time around it's going to require a lot more than speculation and playing arm chair general, check out the link in my signature.


Actually, I predict that he will win most of the northeast rather easily.

Your are expecting too much as things stand right now without some serious hard work.

We had the same expectation in 2007 and it turned out to be false, assumptions will only carry you part of the way the rest of the way will come from having people wake up in the morning put there comfortable sneakers on and go out to do the hard work of going door to door in the blistering winter cold to ensure victory. For example in NH we can't assume we have the hundreds and thousands of activists that are needed to do this work right now even if 1000 free staters are up there or not. Having been up there in 2007 I would estimate in order to ensure victory we would need at least 5000 people that have committed to going door to door a number of weeks and more than likely even months prior to the primary. Only then would I feel somewhat comfortable that we did everything we could to win.

I almost think the campaign should really set aside some money to hire people to go door to door to supplement what the volunteers will be doing. I hope we will have more volunteers canvasing this time around but hope only goes so far. If we had paid political operatives like for example the other campaigns had in 2007 I think it would move us closer to ensuring victory in NH and IA. And I'm not talking about coordinators that sit in the office to do administrative work. I'm talking about paid political workers that are going to go out and do the leg work that will be needed.

Let's face it seriously ask yourselves everyone that is reading this thread right now, how many of you are ready to travel hundreds of miles to go to NH and IA to pitch in? I'm guessing not that many since we all thought that would happen last go around and some people did come from around the country to the early states to help out but it was no where near the scale we needed. It's one thing to make predictions while sitting comfortably behind the keyboard without having to do much work all the while enjoying the news reports and watching the videos come in and assuming everything is fine. It's quite another to go out and do the work of spending hours upon hours knocking on thousands of doors to do what is needed. People need to start doing instead of just typing if they are serious about this campaign.

I know this will probably offend those that think the volunteers will be enough to win this thing, but if our numbers in NH of activists are even close to around the same as in 2007 I have a feeling it won't. We will need the official campaign to take lead on this and to ensure that buses and housing is there for those that want to help and hire locals that are looking for a job to go door to door and hand out materials and take names of those committed to vote for Ron Paul. GOTV isn't just an abbrevation for something that is on television lol, there are some tried and tested strategies that have been used for decades to win elections. Unless we wake up to the fact that someone (meaning you, the person reading this thread) is going to have to do some work around here to get Ron Paul in the white house... ...well I'll just leave it at that.

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