April 24th is our last chance. Can we afford to ignore New York?

[Rocco]

With Santorum dropping out, the brokered convention can now only become possible if we start to win a lot of delegates in upcoming states. April 24th is our last shot at this, and we MUST do well in states like New York!

The campaign is doing NOTHING in New York to try to win delegates in this state! If we can keep Romney under 50 and get above 15, we get delegates! If we cannot count on the campaign to do anything, we must help the GRASSROOTS do as much as we can!

There is a TEA Party Rally on April 15th, with over 1,000 registered GOP voters expected to attend (MANY former Santorum people)! Nationally syndicated radio host Josh Tolley has given us the opportunity to have him speak at the rally on Dr. Paul's behalf, and in exchange we only pay for lodging and travel. We have everything paid for except a $650 round trip ticket. We have $50 in offline donations so WE MUST raise $600 by April 13th in order to make this happen! Can you afford to miss the opportunity to influence the SINGLE LARGEST GATHERING of GOP voters in CNY leading up to the primary?

http://1776.chipin.com/expenses-for-...t-ny-tea-party

Though the ticker isn't working and says $0, we actually have $272.72 raised, 41.9% of our goal! But we have a very short window and we NEED donations to make something happen if the campaign isn't going to help us! Thank you all for your help!

[floridasun1983]

We can't afford to ignore anything going forward.

[Jmalo]

With Santourm out, keeping Romney under 50% is unlikely, but that still SHOULD be a major focus. Nowhere else in this race, either in the last 3 months or the coming 2 months could 1% mean so many delegates out of Romney's hands. The difference between 50.5% and 49.5% for Romney would be like a dozen delegates. And now with Santourm out, it could mean maybe 16 or so delegates lost by Romney.

It will not be possible to lower Romney's vote totals. At least very very unlikely. So the plan should be to simply get as many people out to vote as possible. Even if they are going to vote for Gingrich. After all...if Romney gets 500 votes (I know it will be more but just for simplicity) out of 980, he gets 51%. But if he gets those same 500 votes out of 1020 cast, then he gets 49%. So in this simplified version, it would take just 40 more voters...even if every one was for Gingrich and not Ron PAul...it would be better for EVERYONE but Romney.

The worst part of Santorum dropping out for Ron Paul is not that Romney will pick up some of his votes...it is that Romney's votes will stay the same, and the total number of votes cast will go down. A large percentage of Santorum voters will simply stay home now.