JerzieJennie
11-07-2007, 04:27 PM
Hello everyone,
Because we all heard a lot of different things from a lot of different sources, I called the National RP Campaign phone number and asked about the Fox Iowa Debates.
I asked, "Are you able to confirm that Ron Paul is definitely invited to the Iowa Debates? The message boards are going pretty crazy with speculation right now, and I'd love to be able to clarify."
His answer, not perfectly word for word, but almost " The Iowa Debate's regulations are that the candidate must be polling at 5%. However, the poll is at Fox's disgression, and no one knows to what poll they will refer, nor to what standard they will hold that poll."
"No candidate has been officially invited, to my knowledge, as they dont know how the poll is going to turn out."
What was not known was when the poll would be taken - by whom - of whom - etc. So we're up in the air.
He did express that we were close to 5% nationally at this point, and that he expected that our numbers would go up after the money bomb to make this happen.
So, thats the info from National HQ.
We can all just work hard to get the word out in the meantime.
MY ORIGINAL POST WAS THAT THE CAMPAIGN HAD URGED US NOT TO CALL IOWA GOP OR FOX, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO STAY ON GOOD TERMS WITH THE IA GOP. They mentioned this several times today.
Jennie
Because we all heard a lot of different things from a lot of different sources, I called the National RP Campaign phone number and asked about the Fox Iowa Debates.
I asked, "Are you able to confirm that Ron Paul is definitely invited to the Iowa Debates? The message boards are going pretty crazy with speculation right now, and I'd love to be able to clarify."
His answer, not perfectly word for word, but almost " The Iowa Debate's regulations are that the candidate must be polling at 5%. However, the poll is at Fox's disgression, and no one knows to what poll they will refer, nor to what standard they will hold that poll."
"No candidate has been officially invited, to my knowledge, as they dont know how the poll is going to turn out."
What was not known was when the poll would be taken - by whom - of whom - etc. So we're up in the air.
He did express that we were close to 5% nationally at this point, and that he expected that our numbers would go up after the money bomb to make this happen.
So, thats the info from National HQ.
We can all just work hard to get the word out in the meantime.
MY ORIGINAL POST WAS THAT THE CAMPAIGN HAD URGED US NOT TO CALL IOWA GOP OR FOX, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO STAY ON GOOD TERMS WITH THE IA GOP. They mentioned this several times today.
Jennie