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To Democrat Canvassers
I tip my hat to you.
Canvassing puts more votes in the ballot box than writing internet articles. So I have to commend those Medium writers who sacrificed some Medium time to get some votes for the Democrat Party. I believed your work should have found the result you were looking for.
Writing is fun. Canvassing is not fun. I have done a fair bit of political canvassing. Knocking on doors to have a little chat with people you don’t know; some are annoyed, some are hostile. I would never seek employment in this kind of field. Strange I did this as a volunteer.
In theory, canvassing is about identifying the soft support for a political party. Then the party campaign office will try to motivate these citizens to make the trip to the polls and cast a vote.
It’s kind of sad that many citizens have to be manipulated to vote. But this is the nature of western democracy. Whether we like it or not, the bulk of the population is not that interested in politics as the political players and political junkies. Why we need “ground teams” to “get out their vote,” and decide one political party over the other is a sign of a broken system.
From what I could gather from the 2024 US election, the blue ground team was much better than the red ground team. Despite the heroic efforts of thousands of blue team…
