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To: BillyBoy; Impy; ScottinVA; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; randita; InterceptPoint; ...
Billy,
both AP-WMUR and Boston globe are reporting
23,411 NEWT 23,362 RS

both fell below the 10% minimum threshold and will receive ZERO delegates, instead of ONE each. Victims of the open primary.

Of course, both NEWT and RICK are still the guys running their campaigns going forward. RICK the ideologue and NEWT the ideas guy. Neither are interested in the details of the electorate and neither seem to have a grasp of "network building" the way ronPaul does.

Does NEWT end his townhalls by asking people to sign up and participate? Does he tout his website .... asking people to go there and submit their email? Does he even ask his staff to have everyone sign in at the door with a name and contact info? NO. Not part of his mindset. Same for RICK.

So being a western NH rural specialist, interested in organizing the anti-MITT coalition ... the campaign that I was interested in still existed. But it was co=opted by JH and ronP ... bunch of folks running around being anti-mitt, but they were with other campaigns. So did I make the wrong choice going with NEWT over RICk? Neither campaign existed outside of Hillsboro and Rock'ham counties in the east. So I really had no choice at all and went to the eastern suburb of Milford. I stood in the hdqtrs lobby pointing west, and the staff wondered, "why is he interested in those rural counties? It's a 2-hour drive out there."

If RS and NG teams allowed this in NH ... they will allow it in various other states going forward and ronpaul will continue to drain the energy away.

Randita, teaparty folks should be finding a way to defeat MITT and they are not. Many are new to politics and don't think highly of RS or NG cuz they were in office back a few years and aren't that familiar with them.

AuH2O and Billy, I hope RS stays as Newt and rick will have to each skip states down the line so we will have someone to support everywhere. Does not get to be a problem until April winner-take-all states.

I encouraged the RS folks to go to ME and VT to get started. They are Mitt states, but we cannot allow ronPaul to monopolize the opposition in such states. We cannot allow this to become a 2-man race anywhere! No MITT vs. Ronpaul states.

I am going to Maine next. Caucuses Feb 4th.


38 posted on 01/12/2012 7:50:15 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (and I will go back to western New Hampshire to campaign.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832048/posts

Gist of article - Tea Party doesn’t like Romney - focusing on U.S. Senate


40 posted on 01/12/2012 9:55:47 AM PST by randita
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To: fieldmarshaldj

ping the field marshal to all of this.

If NEWT & Santorum falter ... freeRepublic cannot allow this to become a Mitt vs. RonPaul race with paulie getting the 30% of the delegates to the convention. Somebody has to stay in to keep the delegates from paulie.

the fact that ronPaul has taken over the teaparty and grassroots is appalling. HE needs to be blocked from the delegates.


41 posted on 01/12/2012 12:39:33 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (and I will go back to western New Hampshire to campaign.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Dengar01; fieldmarshaldj; BenKenobi

Santorum is the only one with the potential to rise. Newt was the frontrunner and collapsed, he’s not coming back from that. Especially now after the silly Bain attacks that handed Mitt the moral high ground.


45 posted on 01/13/2012 3:13:13 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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