Republican activists in swing states say they’ve seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump.
Does door knocking work? I don’t answer the door anymore, haven’t for a while. I check the cameras. If I don’t recognize someone or their uniform I don’t get up.
Same with picking up the phone. Leave a message and I’ll call back, if it’s relevant. Don’t leave a message and there’s no callback.
And I’m skeptical of text surveys, what new scam could be contained within?
Who is doing participating in these polls? Is this all boomer data? Or are they just pulling numbers out of air for headlines?
I’ve gone door knocking both for campaigns and other non-political canvases and most people don’t have cameras. Heck, many people don’t even have doorbells, it literally is knocking on the door.
Most people will answer the door if they are home, most won’t want to talk. You just move onto the next, it’s about being visible and talking to those that are willing to do so.
It can work yeah. From experience it’s usually more catching people out and about while you have the pamphlet bag and they get curious. Otherwise you’re just leaving pamphlets in doors. Calling people seems to be worse in my experience. If you catch someone outside there’s a good chance you aren’t interrupting with a short conversation. Whereas phone canvassing has gotten worse and worse about that somehow. Maybe it’s just something psychological. Some of my best results were being in the same area twice, (to finish pamphletting doors), and someone who couldn’t talk the day before can talk the next day and they give you time because you didn’t chase them like a salesperson.
We have a camera on the driveway and the front walk. We have a sign at the start of the front walk that, in compliance with state/federal law requirements, says no politics (among others). Anybody who makes it to the door gets yelled at for not reading the sign and asked for their permit from the city to go door to door.
We really don’t like people, outside of expected visitors/deliveries, coming to our door. Our dogs lose their minds barking and then are on high alert for a while going off at every little noise.
Political texts, regardless of party or content, get an automatic delete and mark junk. Same with emails.
Mailers don’t make it into the house and go right into the recycling.
We don’t vote based on the best marketing campaign.
Does door knocking work? I don’t answer the door anymore, haven’t for a while. I check the cameras. If I don’t recognize someone or their uniform I don’t get up.
Same with picking up the phone. Leave a message and I’ll call back, if it’s relevant. Don’t leave a message and there’s no callback.
And I’m skeptical of text surveys, what new scam could be contained within?
Who is doing participating in these polls? Is this all boomer data? Or are they just pulling numbers out of air for headlines?
I’ve gone door knocking both for campaigns and other non-political canvases and most people don’t have cameras. Heck, many people don’t even have doorbells, it literally is knocking on the door.
Most people will answer the door if they are home, most won’t want to talk. You just move onto the next, it’s about being visible and talking to those that are willing to do so.
It can work yeah. From experience it’s usually more catching people out and about while you have the pamphlet bag and they get curious. Otherwise you’re just leaving pamphlets in doors. Calling people seems to be worse in my experience. If you catch someone outside there’s a good chance you aren’t interrupting with a short conversation. Whereas phone canvassing has gotten worse and worse about that somehow. Maybe it’s just something psychological. Some of my best results were being in the same area twice, (to finish pamphletting doors), and someone who couldn’t talk the day before can talk the next day and they give you time because you didn’t chase them like a salesperson.
So much scamming via phone. You in person is verifiable, so that makes sense.
I’m there with you.
We have a camera on the driveway and the front walk. We have a sign at the start of the front walk that, in compliance with state/federal law requirements, says no politics (among others). Anybody who makes it to the door gets yelled at for not reading the sign and asked for their permit from the city to go door to door.
We really don’t like people, outside of expected visitors/deliveries, coming to our door. Our dogs lose their minds barking and then are on high alert for a while going off at every little noise.
Political texts, regardless of party or content, get an automatic delete and mark junk. Same with emails.
Mailers don’t make it into the house and go right into the recycling.
We don’t vote based on the best marketing campaign.