Here we go again! 2008!

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Hi,

This is Jeff from the Lindale and Tyler meetups.

I've been in NH since 15 Dec. We do canvassing, phone banking, and sign waving. The sign waves that we do at the Mall of New Hampshire (also called Manchester Mall) are unbelievable! I've never heard so many horns at a sign wave. I have gone through whole packs of slim Jims in a short period of time. You can find video on You Tube of
these sign waves.

There are a number of people here from all over Texas. We also have a surprisingly large number of people from the west coast. CA, OR,and WA, are all well represented. I know of at least one ex-pat who returned to the US for OLFD.

I recently moved from a house in Rye, NH, to Gilford, NH. The latter is a more remote area where people are less involved in the presidential primary campaigning. In the small, out of the way town of Franklin, NH, on Dec 29th, we gave out 7 yard signs out of about 20-25 answered doors. We also met a number of people who had never heard of Ron Paul but liked his position on the issues.

We knock on the doors of people with other candidates' signs in their yards. We have removed John Edwards signs and replaced them with Ron Paul signs on request by the homeowner. Two days ago, a 4 x 8 Hillary sign was hauled down at the owners request and replaced with a Ron Paul sign. The support for opposition candidates tends to be paper thin. When confronted with the facts, many voters are flipped to Ron Paul.

Just today I left a slim Jim on a door while canvassing. The homeowner returned before we left the area and chased us down and said, "You'd better take this back before I through it in the trash." He was a Kucinich supporter who hates republicans. We talked on the street for about 10 minutes about the war, the corporations, and civil liberties. He left with a Ron Paul DVD and he said that if Ron Paul finishes in the top 3 in Iowa, he would
vote for him in the NH primary on Jan 8th.

One of the most effective tools that we have here has been the US Constitution. People in NH take the Constitution more seriously than do the people of any other state that I have seen. I have seen unregistered non-voters commit to register and vote for Ron Paul based on Ron Paul's support for the Constitution. We use the Cato Institute version which is a very nice copy with gold lettering on
the cover. It stands out sharply against the piles of mail from opposition candidates.

The impact on the ground of the OLFD grassroots volunteers has made an enormous impact. No other candidate has anything close to what we have. Yesterday in Franklin, NH, I saw a lone Hillary canvasser making her rounds through the same neighborhood that 4 Ron Paul canvassers were covering. This was in a small town with a total of ten Ron Paul canvassers. A week ago I saw a lone Obama canvasser who was competing against 6 Ron Paulers in a minivan.

At a recent sign wave at the Mall of New Hampshire, we had 25 sign wavers standing on three foot snow banks for 8-10 hours. Six college kids from Boston showed up waving signs for John McCain. They we not dressed for the cold weather, they were immature and undisciplined. One of the McCain girls was all but converted to Ron Paul on the issues of free-trade and the weak dollar--she was disagreeing with one of her fellow McCain sign wavers and agreeing with one of our guys (all while holding a little McCain sign). These kids were headed back to Boston after about an hour of standing on the snow banks.

If you are considering coming up to NH for the Ron Paul surge, I would encourage you to do it! It is a real blast and you can really make a difference here.

Live Free or Die!

Jeff