The Post-Iowa Run

I worked the phones for most of the evening at campaign HQ in Concord. We all worked in the streets of downtown Concord handing out Constitutions to everyone in the streets, ducking into shops when we had the opportunity to hand out Constitutions to shop owners - and to get out of the four degree chill.



We quickly organized a march around 12:30 through Concord all the way to the State Capitol down the street, shouting "Ron Paul Revolution! Give us back our Constitution!" Yeah, it was corny, but we were all sincere about it: whatever ultimately happens in these elections, a movement has been started which is going to grow and live on well beyond the final U.S. pullout from Iraq - whenever that occurs, however much money and however many more troops will have died by then.

We rushed to Murphy's Tap Room in Manchester after we were done for the evening. Murphy's is a sports bar, but wouldn't you know it, all screens were on CNN this evening, and all eyes in this packed bar were eagerly anticipating the results for Dr. Ron Paul. We were rather upset that CNN's Republican pie graph had the results showing for Romney, Huckabee, McCain, and Thompson, and then there was a large white chunk in the top left corner that had no name attributed to it - the entire night. Ron Paul's name was never shown in the graph, but he ended up just behind McCain and Thompson, coming in at 10% of the total vote. It was a bit disappointing because we were really hoping for third place, which we missed by about 3%, but it wasn't a bad showing, and it should give some momentum heading into New Hampshire, where we'll almost certainly do better.

The owner of Murphy's is a Ron Paul supporter and gave us all free beer, and another supporter covered all of our meals for the evening.



Today we're heading for Berlin - New Hampshire (not Germany). Into the north, where few canvassers ever reach. They should be interested enough to hear us out, at the very least, which is all we need to convert most voters.