How many WANT to go?

I live all the way up in Oregon, but come Hell or High Water, I will be there! Almost 6000 miles round trip! No matter WHEN it is held! I just wish someone would come up with a firm date so more folks could make plans, too. I think that is the only glitch that is cooling enthusiasm for the march at this time. A LOT of people are willing to give up time and money, but they have to be able to make plans ahead of time. Hopefully, there will be some decision made on this soon.

I think the carpool concept is absolutely amazing! It would be such an impact for folks to see huge groups of Ron Paul supporters. I am trying to organize carpools from up here in our neck of the woods -- 4 to a vehicle minimum -- would keep costs under control, and make it fairly easy to share driving duties. I am trying to get my 14 year old grandson interested in going, too. I think this is going to be history in the making and I fully intend to be part of it!

I want to spend my time with my family in my home and use my money in other ways, but it is too important not to go, so I will.

...but it will all depend on the date. That, and ticket prices from Hawaii to D.C. Oh, and permission from the wife... :)

I'm planning on driving down for this march. It may be the most important thing I do in my life for me and the young ones.

Canuck for Ron Paul

Who on here doesn't want to go? Nobody HAS to do anything. Isn't that what we're marching for? Liberty? Our God-given rights to live in a free republic? Not worth it to spend 150 bucks to make history? Is there any possibility that I'll be afraid of the inevitable scrutiny of the media on this? Let's have some real threads and not this nonsense.

millions !!!

www.ronpaulmarch.com

But if a lot of people show up, the MSM is going to ignore it, or try to find some negative aspect to report. If very few show up, that will play that like a fiddle.

I love activism especially when it is smart. This needs to be carefully evaluated for both the upside potential and the downside risks and then weighed in comparison to other ways to spend the resources of time and money.

you a big tim mcveigh fan? or were you one of his handlers?

I am going regardless of the date! I will clear my schedule, I will take a personal day, I will call in sick if I have to WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THERE!!!!
That is my commitment.

As I've calculated and posted some days ago, in order to have an impact similar to Martin Luther King's march (in numbers, anyway), we will need all of 400,000 participants. Anything less will receive scoffing from the media, although we shouldn't let that stop us. We just need to work hard enough to inspire that many Revolutionaries to get off their butts!

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Liberty for Dummies

106,675 Members in 1,598 Meetups, 10,917 waiting for a Meetup

This membership number reflects families who will go to the march, but have only 1 or 2 household members signed up on meet-up.com, people who lost their password and signed up more than once, people who signed up a long time ago, but don't follow the campaign anymore, etc., etc., etc.

What we need are some general estimates from a sampling of meet-ups of how many plan to go to the march and then we could compare those percentages to the number of people signed up on those meet-ups. This would be hard to do because so many people can't follow the volume of email from their meet-up. Another way of estimating would be to determine how many active members are in your meet-up. This would include people who have come to meet-up meetings, who communicate regularly with the meet-up, and who signed up for the precinct leader program.

Even if the number was accurate for who would want to go the the march, it would be hard to estimate who CAN.

Actually, it's the precinct leader program in my area where we've seen the greatest number of people who are active. Not that many people go to the meet-ups or guns shows. The real numbers have turned out in the precinct leader program.

**Multiply the number of precinct leaders by the average household size (and prorate the numbers for the states where the program was never fully launched) and you may have a decent ball park estimate of the people who want to go.

I will go, but just booked family vacation and I pray it is not that week!

that not many will go? Then stay home. If... and and say if... I had my way we would all go armed.

It is looking like the date may be 6/21/08 but dont quote me I have been hearing this date from some good sources. This is not set in stone yet

I know that I would love to go. But I cannot PLEDGE until a firm date is set. I just thought it was rather bizarre that so many people were arguing about a date, a name for the march, whether it was a "march" or a "rally", who should speak or entertain, etc. and still no one had a clue how many people could possibly show up. I know we have to have estimates just to get a demonstration permit. I don't think it would hurt our cause even if only 25,000 people showed up, as long as that was the ANTICIPATED (and publicized) number. Although it would be a whole lot better to have MORE show up than we estimated. (After all, lets see John McCain get that many people to travel hundreds or even thousands of miles to attend anything!) But as with any publicity event, the presentation is everything.

offer a specific date and some here thwart it. They can't grasp the concept that some know they will not be able to attend at a later date . Apparently, they reject the idea of choice. WE ALL WANT A MEGA MARCH but it is not logical to think that once Paul sets the date, EVERYBODY be able to show at that date!!!

http://ronpaulmarch.com/

and it is abysmal. I have begun to suspect the reason HQ does not set a date is due to this low response. I know it makes me very sad.

Even many Ron Paul supporters think this is something cool we're doing. Typical brainwashing stuff like setting out goals and most of them unrealistic. That's what they've been doing for decades. Then if you don't reach your estimated dream goal your automatically a loser.
WE need to break out of this kinda thinking or this insanity will never end