Door-to-door campaigning can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of campaigning, especially when you aren’t the candidate. A friend and I went campaigning in an important election in autumn of 2004. It may not be as fashionable as campaigning for Barack Obama, but we flew out to campaign for John Kerry and John Edwards [...]
All posts for the month October, 2009
The Guide for Canvassers – Lesson 3 – Dealing with Voters
When knocking on doors for years any canvasser will be able to tell you a tale of partial dress, dressing gowns, night workers or ‘otherwise engaged’. But there are three types of voters that are very difficult to deal with, those with dogs, those with questionable housing and those with a point. Those with dogs [...]
Posted by johnault on October 31, 2009
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The Guide for Canvassers – Lesson 2 – Assume Nothing
Not long after the 1987 General Election, I volunteered to help, as a full-time member of the team, for the Mid-Staffordshire By-election. As it was a by-election not long after the merger of the SDP and the Liberal Party, the campaign team was quite small, with a continuing SDP candidate opposing us. We, however, had an excellent candidate [...]
Posted by johnault on October 30, 2009
http://johnault.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-guide-for-canvassers-%e2%80%93-lesson-2-%e2%80%93-assume-nothing/
The Guide for Canvassers – Lesson 1 – The Basics
Following the Agents Training that was published last week, I was reminded, by a few friends, of a number of canvassing incidents that might benefit from publication. I have been campaigning for Liberal Democrats, and the SDP/Liberal Alliance before that, for almost 25 years now, and still one of the most memorable canvassing moments was [...]
Posted by johnault on October 30, 2009
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Why does David Cameron always look constipated? Is it because he is ‘weak and marginal’?
Why does David Cameron always look so constipated? Eton, Oxford and the Bullingdon Club may have taught Mr Cameron a certain type of debating style, but it’s one that makes my skin crawl. Whatever you say about Gordon Brown, even if you oppose his politics completely, he does actually work very hard, if at times ineffectually, [...]
Posted by johnault on October 29, 2009
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