Re: [MLUG] Door-to-Door Vote Begging

["Clint Forgy" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/5/06, Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Not being one to pass up the cynically obvious, could it be the calls
> are secretly made by the opposition, to piss people off? (I am willing
> to bet it happens)

I don't think politicians are that intelligent.

> Happy Tuesday,
> Dave
>
> Jennifer Dozar wrote:
> > That happens here in Nevada. I got a visit from some one representing
> > the Democratic party asking for that stuff. I told her to go away in a
> > semi-nice way. I am about to vote republican on EVERYTHING out here just
> > to piss off the freakin nutty democrats out here. and like most of my
> > boyfriend's friends! hehehe. I hate politics!
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:33:03AM -0500, Jonathan King wrote:
> >> On 11/4/06, Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >>> So I'm home this afternoon...my wife had run to the store and our twin
> >>> 16-month old boys were taking a much-needed nap.
> >>>
> >>> And the doorbell rings...
> >> Ouch; so this situation sounds very sucky.
> >>
> >> But, that said, IF political campaigns are going to contact me, I
> >> would prefer they do so by a face-to-face meeting. This might be just
> >> me, but I hang-up on any kind of phone call, toss mail unread, and
> >> delete any political email sent to me from a campaign. We essentially
> >> don't watch TV, so I'm blissfully unaware of the political
> >> advertisements there. But if anybody ever knocks on my door, I at
> >> least open it and start to hear what they said. And I do that because
> >> somebody coming to your door (and 2000 others) has made a far more
> >> significant committment to whatever it is that they are pushing, and I
> >> know that if *I* ever had to raise support for some cause I was
> >> passionate about, door-to-door canvassing is what I would do. I'm
> >> basically okay with retail politics (or prosylitzing, for that
> >> matter).
> >>
> >> That said, I expect at maximum only one visit per candidate per cycle
> >> at a maximum (which was what we got in Columbia). If you're getting
> >> multiple visits from Talent's people or anybody else, that seems kind
> >> of inappropriate, unless you asked them to come back.
> >>
> >> jking
> >>
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