Canvassers across metro Phoenix have encountered barking dogs, hostile conversations and rare perfect visits.
As she trudged from house to house in Ahwatukee on Thursday in search of registered voters, she was met mostly with frenetic barking behind doors that never opened.
They talked to voters about candidates and causes, shared their own stories, handed out flyers, told people how and where to return their ballots, and, sometimes, had doors slammed in their faces. Most are volunteers or paid workers, but the candidates themselves have done plenty of walking. After a rousing chant of"Si se puede! Si se puede!" —"yes we can," a famous slogan of the farmworkers' labor movement — the volunteers broke up into small groups, one of them led by Stahl."Eight, seven, nine?" one said."I just took a random guess.""We are very very close," Stahl said."It's pushing everything you possibly can across the finish line to get there.
She wants to elect people, she told him, who will allow her to make her own decisions about health care.Stahl smiled and said"So, hopefully we're not strangers anymore. You know a little bit more about me.
The union uses a popular canvassing app called MiniVAN that shows users which houses they need to hit, the name and age of the registered voter who lives there, whether they've voted yet, and any past canvassing visits. On a Saturday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, Richard Sinclair and his wife, Margaret, both 83, were at home in Scottsdale when a knock came at the door.
"And actually my wife was so impressed, she even suggested that she put her signs in our yard," he added."My wife who hates political signs!"
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