Member: meritocrat

NH it is, I am making the move this month. I hate to say it because I know there were a lot of hard working people who did a great job (I certainly don't blame the volunteers on the ground), but the NH campaign sucked. McCain did dozens if not hundreds of town hall meetings, Ron Paul made a few appearances here and there but mostly spent his time in other states. The TV ads were horrible (for example they ran an ad about illegal immigration and visas... no one in NH cares). One area he could have grabbed some numbers would have been getting democrats, but by the time the campaign really got going in NH the deadline to switch voter registration (Oct 16) had already passed, so he lost out on all those. (when I went door to door in Nov we were instructed to skip the democrat households because they could do us no good). The end result was that on primary day very few voters even knew who he was, and those who did hadn't taken him seriously.

posted by turbosaab at 10:40 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2008