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In reply to the discussion: How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand? [View all]PATRICK
(12,407 posts)Most canvassing that drops lit does it by day so people coming back and getting their mail will naturally collect it. Night is reserved for phone calling when presumably most people, those with landlines enumerated on poll information, are available. That may be because of my own experience. Bolder folk who knock on doors, I don't know their hours and the poll info and Union membership usually directs them to GOTV efforts not debating the other side(time wasted even if one vote is turned?).
In my experience people are unusually polite considering. The hot button people usually have one issue they fortress behind. The experience of GOP workers would be interesting, probably similar, with reversed hot button experience.
The whackos of course will never give up fear and hate as their personal norm, their projection. I'd rather be visited by one of the Xian nut groups who don't intend much real world harm and whose underlying supposition that they are trolling the damned doesn't always create overt bad manners.
I can assume that people who talk like this about guns will produce the odd one or two who will carry guns in hostile(the majority) neighborhoods. This should make answering the door at all in some states a further act of courage.