IOWA LETTER WRITING! We need your HELP!

[kotetu]

great info! Where did you find it?

[alien]

We're going for the personal feel here, it communicates better. Writers are encouraged mostly to tell the reader what they like about Ron Paul, and why they are supporting him. When it is done in your own words, it certainly comes across well. Marketing research has shown that word of mouth generates more business than most advertising.

That being said, I don't discourage people from typing one letter and printing it 100 times, just make sure you sign the letters!

And handwrite the address on the envelope. People will often not pay much attention to printed addresses. It looks like junk mail.

[rs3515]

I’m about to start writing some letters to Iowa and need some advice. I’m wondering if in addition to writing about why I support Ron Paul, perhaps I can also write a sentence or two about Hillary’s flip flopping on some issues?

Manny -- I'm one of the two point people for the Letter Writing Campaign (http://www.rp-supporters.com/letters.html). My recommendation is to avoid the Hillary comparisons at this point because we're trying to get Ron Paul to win the Republican nomination first.

[mathamagician]

Manny -- I'm one of the two point people for the Letter Writing Campaign (http://www.rp-supporters.com/letters.html). My recommendation is to avoid the Hillary comparisons at this point because we're trying to get Ron Paul to win the Republican nomination first.

Hey rs3515 look at my previous post in this thread and let me know if I need to get this information to anyone else in the letter writing campaign. I think it would make our writing more effective but maybe I'm alone on this point.

[mathamagician]

great info! Where did you find it?

I do a lot of data analysis in my job. I took the 2004 primary turnout numbers (from the state election website) and merged them onto a 2004 population estimate by county (census.gov). That gave me turnout percentages (I have total, democrat, republican, and also libertarian + constitutional turnout in the general election).

Then I merged this county information onto a zip code to county mapping that was available from the website of a company that provide analysis software to my company.

So now all we have to do it get people to write to the highest turnout zip codes first.

[HelpRonPaulWin]

I'd take 25 addresses to start.

[manny229]

Manny -- I'm one of the two point people for the Letter Writing Campaign (http://www.rp-supporters.com/letters.html). My recommendation is to avoid the Hillary comparisons at this point because we're trying to get Ron Paul to win the Republican nomination first.

Thanks for the info rs3515! I see your point. Nice website!

[kotetu]

HelpRonPaulWin - please email one of the guys in the first post on the thread - they have the names.

[rs3515]

HelpRonPaulWin - please email one of the guys in the first post on the thread - they have the names.

You need to update the tally numbers on the first page.

[rs3515]

I do a lot of data analysis in my job. I took the 2004 primary turnout numbers (from the state election website) and merged them onto a 2004 population estimate by county (census.gov). That gave me turnout percentages (I have total, democrat, republican, and also libertarian + constitutional turnout in the general election).

Then I merged this county information onto a zip code to county mapping that was available from the website of a company that provide analysis software to my company.

So now all we have to do it get people to write to the highest turnout zip codes first.

I discussed this with Bryce a bit earlier (I'm Ron from the website). I think we're confident right now we can get through all the addresses. If we start to get down to the last week and we've still got a lot, then I might be able to work with you to get a prioritization.

The tough thing will be the addresses are not in an easy format for data manipulation. You'd probably have to extract the data from Word files, merge them, do your thing in Excel and then do a new mail merge.

You're in Austin, right?