Doing the Most With the Least
Submitted by retrorepublican on Sun, 08/12/2007 - 19:59 Bio | Blog | retro-republican.blogspot.com
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Ron Paul did the most with the least in the Iowa Straw Poll.
Ron Paul received nearly 77 votes for every event he organized in Iowa, the best of all other candidates. Fred Thompson came in second with 50.75 votes received for every event.
The worst performers were, Sam Brownback of Kansas who organized 115 events in Iowa and only received 19 votes per event, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who actually spent more time there than Ron Paul, but only received about 7 votes for every event in Iowa.
This doesn't tell the whole story...
For example, for all we know, Romney's gained votes per event for the first 17 events were well above Paul's, and they decreased as more people knew more about him, and/or the same supporters went to more events. Furthermore, with his name recognition and spending on advertising, there were more people who had already made up their minds about Romney and therefore fewer people to convert. This is probably even more true of Giuliani. 77 votes per event now doesn't necessarily mean 77 votes per event for the next 50 events.
That said, this is still very encouraging. Although this isn't necessarily a huge positive, it would certainly be disastrous if Romney, for all his advantages, had more voter conversions than Paul.
Paul ought to start using some of that money to get his name out, and he should do it soon. And, judging by that television ad, he should probably hire Lord Xar to do his advertising from now on.
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Missed it
Hey Pier,
Sorry, I missed your post since it wasn't in the main section.
Anyway, after receiving an email on this, I checked the washington post and it appears that it should be events and not days. I was thinking 17 days didn't sound right to me. Also, if you go on that site, you'll notice the figures have roughly changed a bit (even for the chart included in this post), but not enough for any real change percentage wise.
Julian