Not good if RP supporters buy all the USAToday papers on the 21st

USAToday is free at Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, Sleep Inn, Clarion, etc.)
And a lot more. Google "Free USAToday"

Then we already win.

These will make great promotional material in the year to come. It would be terrible if this print run did not sell out.

The answer is for the USA to print more.

I have already posted this elsewhere but here it is again:

I emailed Lawrence Lepard who is paying for the USA Today ad for Wed. This is what I said:

Dear Mr Lepard

A Ron Paul supporter posted that they were going to buy 10 copies of the paper for themselves.

Then they realized they had better not – because there would be none left for non-supporters, who are the ones who really need it.

Could USA Today be informed to increase production on that day?

Sincerely

Stephanie Relfe

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He just replied to me with this request:

"Yes, I am working on that. Send them an email telling them you want multiple copies. If enough people do that they will do a bigger print run.

Thanks for your efforts.

RP will win.

Best, LWL"

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This looks like a good general form to email them from:

http://feedbackforms.usat......

Stephanie Relfe
Health, Wealth & Happiness
www.relfe.com

AHAHHA :D yoopee! That is so illegal and yet so brilliant at the same time. (stuffing a slim jim in every newspaper in the newspaper box!)

Why not buy up copies of USA today and give them away? Leave them in offices . . . put them on restaurant tables . . . heck, leave them in bathrooms!

I'm just buying one. Of course, then I'm going to put the ad in a frame and mount it in my office

I am worried that they will buy up all the newspapers so that no one can buy them.

I haven't put any in a news paper at a news stand yet all you need to do is ask the news stand guy or put them in the news paper boxes put them in to the first ten then you know they won't be wasted

Usa today is handed out for free at many hotels expecially hotels near buissness districts and airports

Don’t worry about it being a big travel day. These papers are given out in hotels and on airlines and are sold in airports and at rest stops. The paper is very big with business travelers and people still do business over holidays. If you want multiple copies, try not to buy them all in one place. If you are traveling, have your slim jims handy.

Save your money and pool your resources and buy an insert in a local weekly newspaper. About $150.00 per thousand inserts. Excellent project for meetup groups. Replace paid for by [name] with name of meetup group.

If you buy extra copies to give to other folks, remember to slip a Slim Jim inside each one!

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I'm going to buy a dozen copies and leave them opened up to the ad on empty tables at Starbucks and any upper level fast food type restaurants (looking for spots where the clientel are likely primary voters).

From someone who used to deliver newspapers to stores

roughly 50% of the copies WILL sell, BECAUSE it is a travel day because noone gets to watch night news before cause they are getting ready to go and travel early

thats higher then your usual 25-30% weekday

BUT ANYWAY

BUY HALF THE COPIES AND GIVE THEM OUT!!

Why the hell would you buy multiple newspapers for an ad? They would have no idea that sales are increasing because of some politician's ad. Even if they did know there was a surge because of Ron Paul supporters buying multiple copies, why would they care?

Just buy your newspaper and let other people buy their newspaper so they can check out the ad...

I am pretty sure that most papers don't make too much of a profit, if any, on the sale of their papers themselves. The money comes from the advertising.
So, the paper is already paid for. The only reason they hope the paper sells is so people will see the ads and buy all that stuff they don't need or to believe things that aren't true.
It would be worth it to me to buy one just to see what an honest ad looks like.

Go Ron Paul!

i thought i'd buy like five or ten copies and give them away with people's orders. i just can't be obvious about it because of work. i'll have to say something along the lines of, "hey, i've got an extra copy of USA today, do you want it?"
most people would probably say yes, don't you think?
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"i thought what i'd do was, i'd pretend i was one of those deaf-mutes." -laughingman

Why would people buy more than 1 for themselves? People shouldn't do that. I like the idea of buying a whole bunch (make sure you buy them and not purchase 1 and steal the rest from the machine) and giving them away to people.

I don't think they will sell out. It's a huge travel day. The airports are going to be packed all people will be loading up in their cars to travel all across the nation. I'm sure they are printing extra for this reason alone and all newsstands, stores and corner bins will be full.

Buy the stack, leave them in the rack, tell the store clerk and leave a note that says "Free papers, courtesy of a dedicated Ron Paul supporter!"

I used to deliver newspapers and every store always wants to sell out. What happens to unsold copies? Their header gets clipped and the headers go back for a refund. Some stores will sell out and others won't. Ask a few of your stores to save any copies not sold after 24 hours or whatever time frame they use before taking them off the stands. In this case they may leave them out all weekend until the new edition is delivered the following Monday.

Remind the store every day you would like to buy whatever copies remain on Monday morning after the weekend. If they know you and you get the attention of the person who usually is assigned this task (often the graveyard shift) you can purchase all the copies or just one if you want before the unsold returns are sent back to the distributor. This way the publisher benefits and we do not shoot ourself in the foot by preventing someone from buying a copy.

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..Without the truth we have nothing

good enough for me! The ad isn't for me anyway.

I'm thinking the same thing. These papers are going to go like hot cakes! Maybe we should notify USAToday to be prepared for a run on their Wed. edition. I plan on buying 5 or 6 copies myself and having a few of the ads laminated for campaigning purposes. It's very realistic to expect every edition to be bought and many folks will be deprived of the message and this will defeat the whole purpose FOR Ron Paul. USAToday doesn't care who buys them, this may be a strategy for them too. They may very well be thinking (rightly so) that many many RP fans are going to buy these up. They DO KNOW how passionate we are and probably have been watching blogs and RP sites in anticipation of sales. I would go as far to say that they have someone looking for heavy RP demographics and expect bigger sales from one place to another.

When buying from newspaper boxes, we must be sure to PAY FOR EVERY COPY. We don't want stolen papers to turn into an anti-RP smear story in their next edition.

I'll also ad that my wife and I have been doing something for weeks that we think is effective. We will go to newspaper boxes (USAT & local) and pay for a paper and then stuff the remaining papers with RP slim jims. The Wednesday edition would be great for this. What would be better than opening your USAToday and reading the ad and then having a slim jim or wallet card supplement to stick in your pocket?

when you buy a copy, either give it to someone or cut the ad and post it somewhere where people can see it (bulletin boards, bus stations...)

I'm sure everyone is going to buy ONE for themselves... I might suggest going to the stores later in the day (after noon for instance when the morning paper is just about moot) and buying what is left. Maybe to be left in places like malls, or fast food restaurants. Who knows. A strategically placed slim jim would work just as well and be cheaper I guess... I wonder what section the ad will appear.

I can't resist buy one for myself, though.

...and then giving them away with a slim jim or two inside....

...maybe in traffic, lol.