Boston Tea Party - Just Calm Down!

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I can understand the excitement of the Ron Paul supporters today and I can also understand its significance in terms of bringing cash, new supporters, and of course more media coverage.

Now, here are the things that you should consider in all this excitement:

Don't expect too much. As I analyze it based on various factors, the campaign is likely to hit $6.5 million today in donations. I would be slightly surprised if it is less than $6 million and I would be disappointed if it less than $5.5 million. I may also add that it is very unlikely that it would hit $10 million as some people are expecting. When you set unrealistic expectations and then they don't meet, you are bound to be disappointed no matter how wild your expectation might have been.

If you have already donated and won't be donating again today then please don't visit ronpaul2008.com. It will contribute to more traffic which obviously is unnecessary and should be avoided. Use ronpaulgraphs.com instead to check out the numbers!

Donating is only a part of what you should be doing for the Ron Paul Revolution. If you can, you should get yourself busy in introducing Ron Paul to others and try to convince them to read about Ron Paul and donate for him. Donations are great but they alone won't do the trick. Spreading the word and getting more voters on Ron Paul's side should be the no. 1 goal of every foot solider of the revolution.

Finally, only few weeks are left before the Primaries start. There is very little time. Don't waste time in reading blogs and watching news to know who said what about the Tea Party. I know its fun and exciting but nothing is more important than door-to-door campaign, spreading the word, talking to people about Ron Paul, calling them, and things like that. You don't need to watch news about Ron Paul and read the articles around to convince yourself, do you? You are already sold! Now, its time to sell Ron Paul's message to those who haven't got it yet.

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I like your point

But some times
I
..Just
...Get
......Sooooooooooooooo
..........Excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)


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You missed the point

Perhaps you guys are too excited and hence you missed the point. I don't mind actually because I really do know how passionate supporters of RP are and that is probably one of the most unique things about the campaign.

BTP - Get Excited and Make It Happen

With all due respect to light4planet, this post fails to understand the role of excitement in getting people to act. If you cannot handle the disappointment of only bringing in six million when you wanted ten million, then maybe you want to make your donation and go to bed. On the other hand, a lot of people watch the totals and decide how much to contribute. Expectation drives excitement which drives success. The whole point of the tea party is to get together with others and make a statement. I expect ten million for the day and I will kick in some more when contributions slow down or we get close to another million or we are on the threshold of ten million!

Let's expect the maximum and then make it happen.

excuse me

i do understand what you're saying, that we shouldn't just focus on one aspect of this and ignore all the other possiblities out there..
HOWEVER...
i think you're completely wrong in telling people to not expect too much, and i agree even less with your message telling people to not focus so much on the Tea Party.
have you forgotten how the last American Revolution began?! I'm not quite sure where you are right now and what you're doing, but it just so happens that i'm actually at the Boston Tea Party RIGHT NOW and i pushed my way to the front of the line when we marched down Beacon Street, right into the wind, sleet, snow and rain, and there is no better way to spread your wings than throwing yourself right in the middle of the heart of this movement. This is what sparks people to go out and spread the word. This is what spurrs people to donate. This is what challenges the other campaigns and we don't need ANYONE telling fellow passionate supports to not focus so hard on something so huge. How do you think our forefathers got to where they wanted to be? Certainly NOT by telling themselves not to expect too much and not focus so hard on something like the Boston Tea Party. I'm not sure if you've heard, but there are Tea Parties going on all over the nation, not only that, but all over the world.
we don't need negativity or pessimism in the 11th hour of losing our nation. i've said it before, it's now or never, and now sounds pretty damn good to me.
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I WILL BE DONATING AGAIN AND SO IS MY DAUGHTER AND WIFE

AT MIDNIGHT. WE DID LAST NIGHT A MIDNIGHT AND WE WILL AGAIN AT MIDNIGHT. SORRY YOU GUYS HAVENT FIGURED IT OUT YET.

The number of people

The number of people donating appears to be holding at a steady rate. This indicated to me that the donation server is operating at max capacity of approximately 3000 transactions per hour. I would suggest not splitting donations. What is collected today may be a function of this max rate * how much the average donation is. The only thing we can change is how much is donated on average by not splitting it up into multiple donations. People getting server errors could be causing the fluctuations in the number of people per hour being tracked.

SO stay off the server if you are just watching Donate big ONCE.

don't you think...

the site might under too much pressure of everyone is waiting til the last minute? I don't think it can process so many posts at the same time. I think this is great but give it at least one hour to spread it out so everyone's last donation will be posted.

perfect

I'm not a freak but got about 10 people interested in our next president (regardless who the party nominates). He is and will be my only president.

Great Post

The power of ONE...One person go and get three new RP supporters today and teach them to get three new supporters. Repeat this process over and over and there's no telling how big the grassroots campaign can grow, but it won't happen if we don't get outside and pound the pavement or snow...:-) Well, better go practice what I preach...GO RON PAUL!

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison