Door-to-door Canvassing Guide - Dry Training
A canvassing campaign is a complicated matter and a work of art. Conversely, individuals who believe they know everything about political canvassing without experiencing it in practice are undeniably wrong. Often, individuals underestimate the complexity of canvassing events. Moreover, political canvassing attempts require one to follow a certain sequence of events that must be organized before, d...
The Complexity of Mapping Physical to Geolocation Address
Individuals’ physical addresses are complicated structures, which we take for granted over time. The addresses in the US can have multiple elements which in themselves do not seem complicated. We can easily understand the elements of a physical address, such as street name and number, city name, state name, and zip code. While physical addresses are understandable to us, geolocation is somet...
Door-to-door Canvassing Guide – Campaign Manager
Campaign Manager As there are no two identical snowflakes, there are no two identical canvassing campaigns. Some of the campaigns can offer positions for campaign staff/managers. Moreover, these positions can be paid or offered on a volunteer basis. Once you sign up for the position of campaign staff/manager, you should clarify with the campaign owner whether the position is paid or unpaid....
Door-to-door Canvassing Guide - Campaign Owner
As a rule, political campaigns have a predefined set of goals and expectations. Canvassing campaigns are not an exception. In the previous section, we discussed what kinds of personalities may be found among the members of a canvassing team and what roles they can play within a team per their personalities. Based on the roles assigned to the team members, individuals have different goals and expec...
Door-to-door Canvassing Guide - Forming a Team
Political campaigns put a lot of pressure on people. Therefore, many tend to ignore the efforts of the candidates and avoid political participation at all, which results in the low turnout at the elections and consequently, dissatisfaction of the registered voters in the government they had not taken part in selecting. Other individuals get involved in campaigns because of their passion for a c...