Liz Skalka is a political reporter at HuffPost. She previously covered politics in the Midwest. Follow her on Twitter @lizskalka.
Veronica Bell and Brian Phelps canvass a neighborhood in North Philadelphia in late October. They two of a number of volunteer and paid canvassers allied with Democrats in a key swing state.PHILADELPHIA — All the trainings. All the walking. All the doors knocked on, to open just a crack or slam shut. All the campaign literature that ends up in the trash. All the hours doing this, repeating this routine, having the same conversations — it ultimately comes down to securing votes.
It’s Phelps’ first day on the doors in Philadelphia, and things aren’t off to a great start. His first hour was basically a bust. “Even when they’re not home, we’re doing the work,” he says, trying to stay upbeat. “We’re “The vast, vast, vast majority of doors, nobody answers. That’s just most of the experience,” says Jamie DeMarco, a state-level director with the Chesapeake Climate Network Action Fund, who was training canvassers last weekend in the Germantown headquarters of For Our Future. “You’re shifting through that haystack to find that needle of that person who only an in-person conversation could move.
the focus of its grassroots efforts. That reality is borne out in the data — by a wide margin, more registered voters reported being contact by the Harris campaign than the Trump campaign in recent weeks,Why is only one side investing in trying to talk directly to swing voters? It’s easier to throw money at commercials and mailers — or, with respect to Trump’s campaign, mobilize volunteers with an eye toward possibly contesting the results. The doors, meanwhile, can be a slog.
Bell leaves him with some literature and thanks him for his time. And then it’s on to another block. And another.
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