Unmitigated success
Just a quick note because a quick check of the news doesn't turn up this little tidbit: Ron Paul won the Strafford County GOP Straw Poll yesterday with 73% of the vote. You can see the vote tally announcement, with Romney coming in a close second at 9%, here.
For a little background... The Strafford County GOP is, to my knowledge, pretty much the most active and supported Republican county committee in New Hampshire; the picnic yesterday drew not just Ron Paul himself, but Tom Tancredo, Mike Huckabee, and a few stand-ins for those candidates who've decided that they're above Granite State face-to-face campaigning. I'm sure some folks around the state are grousing this morning that those damned Paul people went and packed the poll again—that we must have trucked people in, bought their tickets, and offered them untold riches and glory in exchange for their support. But aside from being untrue, that really misses the point.
Which is? That an arm of the battered, bruised, and crouching NH Republican Party got a boost yesterday from people who support Ron Paul and his platform. Multiply Dr. Paul's vote tally by the price of a ticket, and you see that we raised over $4,000 yesterday for the Strafford GOP—a lovely group of people, by the way, who are working hard to pull this state back from the brink of big government. The head of the state party, Fergus Cullen, was there watching, and I hope what he saw in the sea of Paul shirts and signs was opportunity. We're not invaders; we're standard-bearers, carrying the flag that used to keep this state red.
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For a little background... The Strafford County GOP is, to my knowledge, pretty much the most active and supported Republican county committee in New Hampshire; the picnic yesterday drew not just Ron Paul himself, but Tom Tancredo, Mike Huckabee, and a few stand-ins for those candidates who've decided that they're above Granite State face-to-face campaigning. I'm sure some folks around the state are grousing this morning that those damned Paul people went and packed the poll again—that we must have trucked people in, bought their tickets, and offered them untold riches and glory in exchange for their support. But aside from being untrue, that really misses the point.
Which is? That an arm of the battered, bruised, and crouching NH Republican Party got a boost yesterday from people who support Ron Paul and his platform. Multiply Dr. Paul's vote tally by the price of a ticket, and you see that we raised over $4,000 yesterday for the Strafford GOP—a lovely group of people, by the way, who are working hard to pull this state back from the brink of big government. The head of the state party, Fergus Cullen, was there watching, and I hope what he saw in the sea of Paul shirts and signs was opportunity. We're not invaders; we're standard-bearers, carrying the flag that used to keep this state red.
