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Title: 4um Fundraiser for a Ron Paul Campaign Ad in a NH Newspaper (Creative input requested!)
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Published: Nov 20, 2007
Author: 4um
Post Date: 2007-11-20 11:57:11 by robin
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We need ideas and people who are willing to create a great Ron Paul advertisement that we all pay for and place in a New Hampshire newspaper, ASAP!
More info will follow as to how to make your donations to pay for the advertisement. If you are interested in helping with the actual creative work involved please contribute your ideas on this thread.
This will be a joint effort for anyone who wishes to be involved.
This thread will serve as the story board to create the advertisement.
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#271. To: Original_Intent (#270)
Sorry to hear that. I hope you are now well.
Help us nominate Congressman Ron Paul! Paid for by the members of www.Freedom4um.Com. Not affiliated with the Ron Paul campaign. For more information about Ron Paul, visit his website at www.ronpaul2008.com. Here's my contribution to the idea. With a little tweaking, I think it might be good.
Good work Critter!!!
Thanks! I figure we can't get too fancy in the average newspaper. It's not like they are running an 8 color press on premium glossy stock. Simple, black and white, to the point. Some rewording may be necessary or some talking points replaced with others, but I think something like this is the best way to go.
eye-catching pictures! Hope you're feeling much better.
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I think it is very good. Excellent work.
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the size of the ad we're looking at is 4x6 so we will need to keep it short and simple. i like the hillary reference very much. the text on the side may not be necessary? OI, the graphics you chose are very nice and meaningful to us, but i think the ad should include a photo of Ron Paul for those readers who may not know of him.
A bit off topic, but does ANYONE know what is going on with the link to the 'Tea Party' at the bottom of every thread? I've been getting 'Service Unavailable' for a couple of days now...this is really a bad time for this site to be crashing...
It works for me
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I just clicked it, and it STILL says 'Service Unavailable'. I'm not the only one...LOTS of people complaining at various Ron Paul forums. It might be a browser issue...
Interesting...doesn't work with Firefox; does work with IE. HMmm...
i was having issues with it, but now it's fine for me. i think there was a problem at the source site..
"They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." ~ Gerald Massey
Not bad - better than my feeble efforts. You have better layout tools too. Given Hitlery's high negatives even among the Dem's makes the case as to how stark the choice is. I still like my "tag line" though - tweaking it: "In The Spirit of Liberty - Ron Paul '08". My reasoning being that one of the high positives of Ron Paul is his adherence to the Constitution and Jeffersonian principles. That is a connection that seems to run consistently through his appeal. Perhaps across the the bottom 2 font sizes up from the basic text. I would bring the the votes against the Patriot Act and the Real ID closer to the top - just under the opposition to the war. My reasoning being that we want to establish a connection with people who are not yet Ron Paul Voters. In the same vein I would suggest bringing the Bill of Rights up to the number 2 slot under Bring home the troops immediately. Also as a suggestion would be to add a little to it i.e., "Honor the Consitution and Restore the Bill of Rights". That of course connects with the "In The Spirit of Liberty" tag line.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
Thanks - getting better but still short on energy although the congestion is slowly clearing out. I love the Advancing Battle Line picture - it just seems to capture the spirit of what we are trying to do - a rag tag band with more spirit than money and a leader who actually leads bravely. Not like some Chickenhawk Psycho who is a wannabe leader like Duhbya.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
Thank you for the gracious comment. I agree. I still love the advancing Battle Line though - it just captures the entire spirit of our endeavor - for me anyway. Although I agree it might be a bit grandiose for a nuts and bolts ad.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
That's closer to the size we need.
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I use FireFox
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4X6? 4X6? What a bunch of cheap fuggers. hehehe I thought we were talking a full page here. :p
4 x 6 is about $1200 6 x 8 .........$2400
Wow, that much? Which paper?
I figured someone would have some ideas on what should go where, and what should stay and what should go. I just figured I'd toss an idea out there. I like your suggestions, but now, we only have 4X6 to work with so I will have to take it back to the drawing board. That will have to wait for tomorrow night I guess. Thanks!
Manchester Union Leader. New Hampshire. Sunday circulation is entire state, 250,000 copies. That translates to over 300,000 readers.
Sounds good to me. :) I'll tinker with my thing tomorrow night, make it 4X6 and incorporate the suggestions made here tonight. I'll post it for all to critique. :)
LMAO! I am old and my eyes don't like small print. So I have my browser displaying 4um in pretty large text. My layout was done with html and the large text and everything looked great, nice and even and lined up perfectly. So just now, I was fiddling with my browser text size, and when I looked at it then, it looked awful. So are you folks all blind like me using large text or were you just being kind? lmfao!
it does for me too.
i have my font size on maxthon set on large too.
excellent suggestions..now, since the ad is limited to 4x6, will the text be too tiny to see?
I can make RP smaller to accomodate text I think, but I am too tired now. Just got done making www.ronpaulforumny.com/ The new york meetups were looking for a place to coordinate.
Well A combo of your and Wudidiz's thoughts would be workable. By dropping the picture down to the size Wudidiz used and, if your software allows you do do it, putting the Hitlery message in a single banner across the top, and then condensing the points down to just the key one's, as per the survey thread, then it can be done.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
We may have to do some pruning. Certainly the anti-war, and pro-Bill of Rights should stay. While eliminating the FED is important to those of us already aware of the bigger issues moving the current scene to someone not up on it abolishing the FED, even if they know what it is, is an issue who's significance would, from simple lack of knowledge, elude them. Condensing it down to a list like Wudidiz's would work within the size limitations.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
What I did here, I did with html. I made a table and filled it with text and an image. With my Photoplus, I can do just about anything. I'll play with it and let the 4um conscience decide. :)
This is a bad time of year for me to do grunt work. Creativity - ouch! - I'm still stuck at the lolly pop for trees stage of artistry. Loot I can do. 1 out of 3 ain't bad.
Roger! Hotel Sierra, Out.
"How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools." - Unk.
just one? ; )
LOL!!!
You must be registered with the correct party to vote for Ron Paul in states with CLOSED PRIMARIES. Click Primarily Paul and scroll down to the State by State chart. As promised: I need a proofreader to double check my spelling. I can read it a thousand times and not see the obvious, like just now, I had to change to "candidate" from "candidan". Don't ask how I got that or missed it ten times... lol
$10,572,315seventy eight!
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
I know! awesome! I bet we hit 20 mil this quarter. hehehe
I hope Ron Paul blimp works out, I love it! I'm not wealthy though, so only gave $100 today, and am bogarting another $100 I'm gonna spam on the establishment on Dec 16 to help Ron Paul.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
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On (date here) help us nominate the Republican presidential candidate which polls show to be the only one who can beat Hillary Clinton in a general election. 
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eye-catching pictures! Hope you're feeling much better.
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I thought we were talking a full page here.
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I still love the advancing Battle Line though - it just captures the entire spirit of our endeavor - for me anyway.
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#304. To: robin (#6)
You'll do grunt work AND contribute loot?! Wow! We need more volunteers like you!
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#307. To: abraxas (#261)
LOL. You had me at Barack Friday. Hehehe.
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