Ron Paul Precinct Leader program needs more people

[dkim68]

Hey guys,

The Ron Paul movement is off the ground, yes, but A LOT more people need to be involved, actively canvassing, making phone calls, etc. to raise support for Dr. Paul.

Look at the math:
- There's an estimated 120,000,000 registered voters in the U.S.
- There are currently just 3,000 Precinct Leaders handling an average of 500 households each
- If just 51% of the people vote for Ron Paul, that's 62,000,000 some voters (if we're lucky)

What does this mean? We need at least 120,000 Precinct Leaders actively participating just to be doing well. As I said, currently there are only 3,000 Precinct Leaders. That is not nearly enough. :(

Surely, there are more than 120,000 Ron Paul supporters nationwide? :confused:

So here's my plea: If you are a Ron Paul supporter, please sign up to be a Precinct Leader in your area. I just signed myself up last week. Please do the same:
http://voters.ronpaul2008.com/grassrootscentral.test/signup.php (http://voters.ronpaul2008.com/grassrootscentral.test/signup.php?r=dkim68@hotmail.com)

Bottom line: No amount of sign waving, rallying, blimp flying or donations is going to get him elected. We all need to become Precinct Leaders for an actual "Revolution" to happen! We are at a crossroads and the future is in our hands. Whoever our next President will be, let's not look back on 2008 and say we could've done more.

Thank You,
David Kim
dkim68@hotmail.com

[hueylong]

You need to work on your math.

Reduce the 300 million to the number of people who are voting age. Then reduce by a little less than half to get the number of people who are registered to vote. Then reduce by the number of people who actually vote in Republican primaries...

So, 200 million voting age, 60% registered = 120 million
35% Republican registration = roughly 40 million
20% Primary / Caucus participation = 8 million

We've got 3,000 precinct captains.

That's a good start.

[qwerty]

PUT THE LINK IN YOUR SIGNATURES LIKE I HAVE DONE!!!!



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[newbitech]

actually, I have decided to forgo my Job Search to become a precinct leader. I have 2 other people who I have also convinced to become precinct leaders at different precincts.

Its not in trouble.

Thanks for your concern and the reminder and welcome to the forum. How long have you been lurking for? What made you finally decide to post>?

[HillbillyDan]

Thank you huey, for your good math skills

[Indy Vidual]

[SIZE="3"]Hey guys,

The Ron Paul movement is off the ground, yes, but A LOT more people need to be involved, actively canvassing, making phone calls, etc. to raise support for Dr. Paul...

We still need more, thanks.

[dkim68]

You need to work on your math.

Reduce the 300 million to the number of people who are voting age. Then reduce by a little less than half to get the number of people who are registered to vote. Then reduce by the number of people who actually vote in Republican primaries...

So, 200 million voting age, 60% registered = 120 million
35% Republican registration = roughly 40 million
20% Primary / Caucus participation = 8 million

We've got 3,000 precinct captains.

That's a good start.
Thanks, man. Math is my worst subject. :p 3,000 is a good start, yes, but "Super Tuesday" is only a month away. The primaries are important if we want Ron Paul to still be with us come November.

[ConstitutionGal]

I signed up and have already recruited others to do the same that will actually follow through with the responsibility. We actually need several folks in each precinct so we can do canvassing and sign waving at major intersections and at polling places on election day in each and every precinct across the Country.

Get with the program folks. We finally have a way we can interact with the offical campaign as well as continuing withe our grassroots efforts. Don't let this opportunity for our Nation to pass your by!!

[dkim68]

Huey, what percentage of the population are registered as Independent?

[dkim68]

So, 200 million voting age, 60% registered = 120 million

How's this, Huey?
- 62,000,000 sure votes requires 120,000 Precinct Leaders handling 500 households each.

[Kotin]

you convince me. i am now a leader in hays county, tx


thanks!

[smartguy911]

this should have a banner at the top of the forum.

[free.alive]

Lighten up - it's early times still...


And why are you posting this on here?

[Corydoras]

If people had a better idea of what sort of investment of time and money it would require, that would help. For example, if you don't have a good state organization (no coordinator, comatose Meetup group, etc.) you need to print slim jims because they're not going to get them from the campaign store in time.

[dkim68]

Lighten up - it's early times still...


And why are you posting this on here?
With all the elements opposing Ron Paul between now and November the movement as a whole needs to be shooting for a landslide victory... not just eek by. Only with that kind of show of force and power in numbers can we fight the mainstream media, national poll data and SIG funded superstar candidates.

[Austin]

I registered a couple days ago and I am currently working on recruiting folks. 2 down and an infinite number to go.

[dkim68]

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[dkim68]

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[WilliamC]

I signed on Friday and I still don't have any names on my walking list. I will call my county clerk's office today to see about getting precinct maps for my county, but I really would like to know some information about what kinds of slimjims I need. I've already resigned myself to having to print them out myself, but I'll only be able to do this once since I'm catching holy heck from my wife for spending money. Push comes to shove I'll just use the generic slimjim but I sure would love to do some more specific targeting.

And yes, I've made multiple requests to the campaign and my state coordinator. It'll get to me I know but the sooner the better.

[nc4rp]

bumnp!

[voytechs]

Unfortunately the program was started very late in the game. 4 weeks before super tuesday, and after IA, WY, NH. This doesn't give enough time to recruit everybody and make this work.

I'm a precinct captain and my township alone needs 19 more, there are 20 such townships in our county. There is no way I can cover 12,000 voters in 4 weeks by myself. Our meetup managed to get 36 captains for the entire county, but thats for 400 precincts and 250K voters. You do the math. This should have been started in September. Its a great program, but I'm just overwhelmed by the time crunch.

[dkim68]

There are only two captains in my area (including me). But we need nearly 50 more. Sheesh.

[Mental Dribble]

This has been up for 2.5 days, GIVE IT SOME TIME before you declare failure... geesss

[dkim68]

Who's talking failure? I'm not. I'm saying we need more people is all.

[ShowMeLiberty]

Who's talking failure? I'm not. I'm saying we need more people is all.

Definitely need more people. The more people that sign up and do the work, the easier it is for everyone.

[dkim68]

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[dkim68]

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[dkim68]

Guys, thanks for your support so far. Since this posting over 500 more people have signed on to become precinct leaders (12 just through my referral). That gives us potentially 500,000 more people that we can all educate on why Ron Paul is the best candidate to lead our country. See how quickly this works? Gotta love the power of the internet. As Wolf Blitzer says "Amazing, amazing." :)

[RPDelegate]

Quit argueing with the original posters math skills. The main point he's trying to make is that we need EVERYONE to step up and become precinct captains. It's truely the only way we're going to beat the MSM candidates.

[Sentinelrv]

It seems that RonPaul2008.com has put an emphasis on this. Go look.

[nc4rp]

im going to try and find other ones in my precinct. i cant cover all thise area, but im going to try phone calls till i find another in my precinct to be a captain

that way i could actually cal every single person in my precinct and find more captians and maybe inform some people that want it.

[freedominnumbers]

Just follow the program exactly as it says.

You don't have to lit drop say 2000 houses.

Lit drop a street or two then do the non advocacy polling on those two streets then do conversion calls on them. The idea is that you will identify other passionate supporters in your precinct to lighten the load.

Please don't modify the system unless you want to risk spoiling your precinct.

[dkim68]

You don't have to lit drop say 2000 houses.

Please don't modify the system unless you want to risk spoiling your precinct.
Are you saying that word will get out that a certain precinct leader is roaming the neighborhoods and that will discourage support for RP? Because my goal was at least 5,000 houses. You think it would be better for me to do 500 and let someone else do 500 and so on? Because right now there's only one other precinct leader in my area, in a city of 15500.

[RonPaul_SantaMonica]

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https://voters.ronpaul2008.com/grassroots/


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[freedominnumbers]

Are you saying that word will get out that a certain precinct leader is roaming the neighborhoods and that will discourage support for RP? Because my goal was at least 5,000 houses. You think it would be better for me to do 500 and let someone else do 500 and so on? Because right now there's only one other precinct leader in my area, in a city of 15500.

No, I was saying don't skip directly to the conversion calling.
If you can't manage to lit drop and poll all of them at once then do just a road or two at a time. Hopefully you will manage to cover the whole precinct over time, but if not at least the ones you DID get to are covered most effectively.

If you can hit 5000 than by all means do it.
I was specifically posting in response to the complaint in multiple threads from people who don't think they can hit 5000.