Does anyone else get lectured by Republicans at the polls?

[KingCharlemagne]

41. Back in 1988 while living in Madison, WI, I was precinct walking for

Michael Dukakis and down-ballot Dems in the General Election. I stepped onto the enclosed porch of a detached single family house and the porch door closed behind me. The guy who opened the door prefigured Jeffrey Dahmer. And I still remember the cold breeze that went down my neck when he listened to my pro-Dem spiel and then said, "I'd be happy to vote for Dukakis (and the Dems), except that they favor abortions." From the mad glint in his eye, I knew I was in the presence of the clinically insane. My training for precinct walking had given me no instruction on how to handle this. As I recall, I muttered a few polite inanities about Dems supporting a 'woman's right to choose' while backpedaling as fast as I could until I reached the porch door. Guy was sort of following me, all the time muttering his anti-abortion litany. For a second my heart stopped when it seemed like the porch door handle was stuck. It wasn't, I got the door open and slipped out. But it truly scared the living shit out of me. And this was in Red Madison, of all places. I have resolved since then never to enter the dwelling or structure of any stranger while canvassing or precinct walking and offer this advice to more novice DUers.