ronpaulfan
01-05-2008, 10:47 AM
According to this long-time member of dailypaul, the computer problem in Iowa made a very small impact overall. Ron Paul supporters need to bring all their friends and family to the primaries and pressure them to vote for Ron
I was there
On January 4th, 2008 dante (http://www.dailypaul.com/user/2953) says:
and one of the students who waited for hours to get the lists...
It wasn't an issue of files being backed up... it was an issue of software that was supposed to match up addresses we wrote down while canvassing door to door with the person's name, phone number, and caucus location malfunctioning.
80 students stayed up all night on the 2nd and manually fixed most of this. At the end of the day the corrupt data really only amounted to 2-3k of the voters... many of whom we had listed as 25% chance of turning out if we were lucky.
EVERYONE on the identified and potential supporters lists was called often more than once to get turned out.
WHAT HURT US at the end of the day most was the large turnout... we got out about what we expected in terms of definite yes supporters for Ron Paul. The potentials that we didn't get out were democrats and independents- people who notoriously never vote in a republican caucus... come states like NH and MI et al where you have all day to come out and vote.
I was there
On January 4th, 2008 dante (http://www.dailypaul.com/user/2953) says:
and one of the students who waited for hours to get the lists...
It wasn't an issue of files being backed up... it was an issue of software that was supposed to match up addresses we wrote down while canvassing door to door with the person's name, phone number, and caucus location malfunctioning.
80 students stayed up all night on the 2nd and manually fixed most of this. At the end of the day the corrupt data really only amounted to 2-3k of the voters... many of whom we had listed as 25% chance of turning out if we were lucky.
EVERYONE on the identified and potential supporters lists was called often more than once to get turned out.
WHAT HURT US at the end of the day most was the large turnout... we got out about what we expected in terms of definite yes supporters for Ron Paul. The potentials that we didn't get out were democrats and independents- people who notoriously never vote in a republican caucus... come states like NH and MI et al where you have all day to come out and vote.