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12-22-2011, 02:28 AM
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For anyone unsure that Ron Paul will place very high in the Iowa Caucus, Wednesday’s event in Bettendorf should erase all doubts. The event was a campaign tour de force in terms of crowd attendance, as well as organization.
One hour before the scheduled start time, more than 100 attendees were already waiting inside the Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center. Shortly after the doors opened, the room filled to capacity. However, Ron Paul’s campaign was more than prepared for the enormous crowd.
On each of the 260 seats were three items: a 30 page Ron Paul family cookbook, an invitation to a Veterans for Ron Paul rally in Des Moines next week, and a slickly produced palm card that explains Paul’s stances on the front, with a place to sign up as a volunteer or donate money on the back. It is this kind of forethought that is lacking from most of the presidential campaigns.
The Paul staff put on a textbook example of how an event should be run. Volunteers and staff dispersed through the room with sign-up sheets attached to clipboards. They made a significant effort to collect contact information from every single person in the room.
No presidential campaign in Iowa is as efficient as Ron Paul’s in terms of collecting data and distributing information about their candidate. Others set up sign tables with campaign materials and haphazardly pass around sign-up sheets. Ron Paul’s staff is doing the little things necessary to win. They are mobilizing the people who attend their events.
The tremendous display in efficiency and foresight continued as the crowd swelled. It quickly became apparent that the room was too small to fit the rapidly increasing crowd. No worries. The divider wall in the room was removed, revealing another 150 chairs. Each was pre-stocked with campaign materials. Those seats filled up as well. Dozens more were brought in. That wasn’t enough either. Altogether, a crowd of more than 500 people turned out for this event. It was by far the largest audience for any presidential candidate in the Quad Cities this year.
“He does have a good ground game going and I think it’s reflective of the amount of people that were here,” said Scott County GOP Chair Judy Davidson. “We do tend to draw a lot of people at our events but this is the best attended.”
The Bettendorf event was not an anomaly. Paul’s other three stops in eastern Iowa on Wednesday each drew crowds of over 200. No other candidate is attracting those kinds of numbers in Iowa this year.
more at link
http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/ron-paul%E2%80%99s-iowa-campaign-is-ready-to-deliver-victory/
For anyone unsure that Ron Paul will place very high in the Iowa Caucus, Wednesday’s event in Bettendorf should erase all doubts. The event was a campaign tour de force in terms of crowd attendance, as well as organization.
One hour before the scheduled start time, more than 100 attendees were already waiting inside the Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center. Shortly after the doors opened, the room filled to capacity. However, Ron Paul’s campaign was more than prepared for the enormous crowd.
On each of the 260 seats were three items: a 30 page Ron Paul family cookbook, an invitation to a Veterans for Ron Paul rally in Des Moines next week, and a slickly produced palm card that explains Paul’s stances on the front, with a place to sign up as a volunteer or donate money on the back. It is this kind of forethought that is lacking from most of the presidential campaigns.
The Paul staff put on a textbook example of how an event should be run. Volunteers and staff dispersed through the room with sign-up sheets attached to clipboards. They made a significant effort to collect contact information from every single person in the room.
No presidential campaign in Iowa is as efficient as Ron Paul’s in terms of collecting data and distributing information about their candidate. Others set up sign tables with campaign materials and haphazardly pass around sign-up sheets. Ron Paul’s staff is doing the little things necessary to win. They are mobilizing the people who attend their events.
The tremendous display in efficiency and foresight continued as the crowd swelled. It quickly became apparent that the room was too small to fit the rapidly increasing crowd. No worries. The divider wall in the room was removed, revealing another 150 chairs. Each was pre-stocked with campaign materials. Those seats filled up as well. Dozens more were brought in. That wasn’t enough either. Altogether, a crowd of more than 500 people turned out for this event. It was by far the largest audience for any presidential candidate in the Quad Cities this year.
“He does have a good ground game going and I think it’s reflective of the amount of people that were here,” said Scott County GOP Chair Judy Davidson. “We do tend to draw a lot of people at our events but this is the best attended.”
The Bettendorf event was not an anomaly. Paul’s other three stops in eastern Iowa on Wednesday each drew crowds of over 200. No other candidate is attracting those kinds of numbers in Iowa this year.
more at link
http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/ron-paul%E2%80%99s-iowa-campaign-is-ready-to-deliver-victory/