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mopinko

(73,879 posts)
6. door win, every time.
Sun May 10, 2026, 05:11 PM
18 hrs ago

i once knocked on the door of a polysci prof from northwestern. had the most interesting convo.
he’d done the research. told me- mail pieces mean very little. tv, yard signs, same. gets u name recognition, period.
phone calls turn ppl off. (i’m sure texts, more so.) what wins is face to face. there is just no substitute for it.

it does take a certain amount of money to recruit, transport and feed those door knockers. but it’s nothing compared to teevee, esp in big media markets. as someone who worked hard for obama, i can tell u, that’s how he won. i dont think i’ve seen anyone since who flooded the streets the way that campaign did. (but admit i havent been active since.)

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