Very gratified to see the outcome tonight.
I’m one of those rare birds who has been contributing to Rick’s campaign since last July. With his tiny margin in Iowa, I’m claiming that my donations put him over the top in that state. (Hey, don’t bust my bubble!)
Within the past couple of days, I picked a couple of the larger newspapers in Mississippi and Alabama and posted in the comments section of the most prominent political articles. I gave (very politely and respectfully) reasons to vote for Rick. (Swiped the info from Antoninus.)
Perhaps I should have also done that in Hawaii. Hmmmm.... I need to see where the next primary is gonna be. I have more work to do.
The next contest is the caucuses this Saturday in my state of Missouri.
After that is Puerto Rico, where apparently Rick Santorum made an unwise comment to a local newspaper saying the state should be required to adopt English as its official language as a condition of statehood. I haven't personally checked this, but there is a Freeper on the ground in Puerto Rico who is running pro-Santorum threads on the situation in his commonwealth and has more details.
Click here on these two threads for Puerto Rico details:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2858804/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2852420/posts
For Missouri, your project of logging onto newspaper websites to post pro-Santorum comments means the Springfield News-Leader and Joplin Globe (the largest papers in the conservative southwest section of Missouri), the major statewide newspapers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star, and several other important papers such as the Jefferson City News-Tribune and the two daily newspapers in Columbia. Also the Cape Girardeau paper (home of Rush Limbaugh) and the St. Joseph paper get significant regional readership.
Side point: While you're certainly welcome to read the Pulaski County Daily News, you may not want to bother to register to post comments on our partner website for three reasons:
First, the webmaster monitors IP address locations because we've had a lot of problems with foreign spammers and he's likely to reject an obviously out-of-state IP address unless I personally intervene to get you approved (which I will do on your behalf if requested);
Second, such a high percentage of our population is military personnel from Fort Leonard Wood who are registered to vote in other states that turnout is quite low; and
Third, our county's local Republican leadership seems to be solidly for Rick Santorum and I haven't chosen to push potentially divisive issues when the people who would be expected to be supporters of Gingrich or Romney seem to have decided on their own to support Santorum as the best candidate.