What we really need is an effective way to produce a sustained, continual flow of money into the campaign. If the official campaign had an automated donation phone number, so that people could call in and instantly donate over the phone (everyone has a phone and a lot have cell phones with them everywhere) with an automated service, like how one can pay for a utility bill over the phone, and we started encouraging everyone we know to donate $10, we might have a way of getting a lot more people to begin to participate.
$10 might not sound like much, but that is the point. The main thing is that people would be much more willing to chip in $10, even if they do not think that he stands a chance of being elected. A lot of people dig Ron Paul but just don't think he stands a chance. They don't feel the sense we do in throwing in hundreds or thousands of dollars, and it would be difficult to bring people out of our more active group to do this.
But $10, people will be much more indiscriminate with. If they could get on their cell phone and send a donation in one minute, at any time (we were going to call donations in from work on overnights for the Tea Party, but since there was no one taking calls, you couldn't donate), we could really start to reach people.
The monetary gain might not be impressive as it would if they all donated $100, but these people otherwise wouldn't, and the total amount of donors would speak for a lot of votes. These people could become more enthusiastic, as the fact that they put in a little bit might inspire them to follow what is happening more closely, then bringing them to be more active and maybe even contributing more.
My main conclusion from 12/16 is that we haven't expanded too substansially from our support base on 11/5, despite the increased media coverage and slightly higher poll numbers. We should be proud of hitting that record, but its not any time to become satisfied. Ron Paul is seeking to step the campaign up nationally, and we really need to begin expanding our support in a way that translates into donations, no matter how small, so that it registers in a measurable way. We could simply wait and see how people actually vote, but let's be sure now so we can take action to remove any uncertainty.
Hell, it could even be $1, just to show another American supports and will vote.
I think this is a great idea. We need a theme, something simple and easy, so it can be streamlined and spread like wild-fire. Of course, I guess the only thing would be that we would need an automated phone way to pay by credit card.
Anyways, I definitely feel like we need to do something like this. What does everyone think? Let's discuss.
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