Call For Paul, to Win!

[fireworks_god]

First off, the grass-roots is phenomenal. We are capable of anything we put our minds to - the funds, the blimp, the mass media bombs. They know we are fiercely alive.

Iowa has shown us something though - it is time that we all put our energy and focus into directly BRINGING OUT THE VOTE! We failed to get the vote out in Iowa, no one's fault but our own, but its a textbook for us to learn!

We never really came together and focused our energy into the specific tasks that are necessary to win. Most of us are not in one of these crucial early states, so we can't put our boots on the ground.

Let's get everyone involved in a way that will get South Carolina citizens to vote for Ron Paul, the only thing that really matters now.

Everyone here can call people in South Carolina. This thread is for us to begin to formulate our strategy for all of us in these forums to begin calling people in South Carolina.

Iowa has taught us that the polls, for the most part, are accurate. We can use this to win. The pollsters contact these voters, we can too. We need to reach everyone that can vote for Ron Paul, and reach them well.

So, one crucial step is for us to obtain calling lists. We need phone numbers. We need to organize them in a way that we can all share information with each other about our calling. We need to be able to organize these lists. Confirmed Ron Paul voters need to be in a list, as we'll need this list later to ensure we drag them in to vote. We need to share information so we can work together, effectively, to win everyone over.

We also need to formulate an effective way to handle this. We have to be careful or we will blow it, but this is no reason to not actively pursue this, all of us, because this is also one of our greatest tools for success! General rules would be to introduce ourselves and where we are from, speak in a warm, friendly manner, and develop ways to lead the discussion. We can ask questions about what is most important to them, inform them about anything going on in general, with Ron Paul or anyone else, and just tell them what we really think! We are very well informed, and we need to share our perspective with voters, because they aren't going to get it any other way.

We can do this, we can do this well, and we can get everyone here involved in a way that directly BRINGS OUT THE VOTE!

What does everyone think?

[Cinderskenney]

I tried to join the initiative to call New Hampshire voters through BallotBase, and I haven't heard back from that campaign since the site CRASHED due to too many volunteers calling too many potential voters. I think I made five calls before I got an email saying they were closing shop. BallotBase has yet to contact me since.

How can we organize a call center like that if the sites we're using can't handle the work? I am all for calling fellow Americans, just give me a PAPER list of names and phone numbers and a script and I would love to get calling. Hope someone has an idea to get this started for New Hampshire and SC.

-Sara

See the below email:

December 15, 2007
FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY:
Dear Sara,

Despite great efforts from many activists, and probably due to those outstanding efforts, our system just didn't cut it today and was overwhelmed by the volume of callers.

I sincerely apologize to all of you who logged in to give this a shot and reach out to voters.

Unfortunately, our system couldn't handle the volume that we received and as a result, we wasted a few precious hours of your time.

This is entirely our fault and I'm really sorry that we've let you down.

We're going to go back and see what we can do to resolve this. Originally, we were going to keep the system open until 5 p.m. today but given the problems thus far, we're going to go ahead and shut it down.

I hope you'll give us another chance when we work out these issues.

Thanks for everything.

For Liberty,

Shane Cory
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee
FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY:
Dear Sara,

Okay, let's get started!

The call center is now officially open.

To start calling, do the following:

Login to www.BallotBase.org
Click on the tab that reads "Call Center"
Select the campaign, "Ron Paul New Hampshire"
Click the green button that reads, "Start Calling!"


Then . . .

Call those voters!


When you're done or need a break, click the "Finished Calling" button on the right.

If you run into ANY problems, need support, have a question, etc., please go to our chat room at www.lp.org/chat. Sean Haugh, our political director, will be standing by to help.

Thanks for everything!

For Liberty,

Shane Cory
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee

[fireworks_god]

I tried to join the initiative to call New Hampshire voters through BallotBase, and I haven't heard back from that campaign since the site CRASHED due to too many volunteers calling too many potential voters. I think I made five calls before I got an email saying they were closing shop. BallotBase has yet to contact me since.

How can we organize a call center like that if the sites we're using can't handle the work? I am all for calling fellow Americans, just give me a PAPER list of names and phone numbers and a script and I would love to get calling. Hope someone has an idea to get this started for New Hampshire and SC.

What we need to do, is obtain lists, and forego a call center like that. We need to decentralize it, exactly because of that! The campaign in Iowa had horrible problems on caucus day when their system was sabotaged.

This is why we need this effort in the grass-roots. We will coordinate in this forum. We will all save copies so nothing can wipe us out. We could even back-up this forum on distinct websites in case someone sabotages our entire forum on crucial days.

I'm beginning to research and find out about how we can obtain these lists for South Carolina. I think it would be great that we modify and organize our lists as we call. Seperate into confirmed supporters, maintain for getting out the vote on voting day. Maybe flag numbers with who they are supporting or where they stand, so we can coordinate a more effective effort.

It sounds complex but we can keep a simple system to do it, and get thousands involved, as we are all right here in this forum!

[fireworks_god]

We can buy our own list! I'm not sure if this is the best website, but let's take it as an example for now:

http://www.voterlistsonline.com/vers...5&page_id=home

$.025 per voter. Somewhere over 500,000 people voted in the Republican primaries in 2000. That would cost us $14,000. With thousands of users in this forum, if a group of one thousand made one hundred phone calls in one day, that is 100,000 calls, just to get an idea.

Hopefully Ron Paul supporters are actually interested in doing something that would directly impact Ron Paul getting voted for.