Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which we had given to the local groups were ignored. At each organizational meeting, I stressed the importance of getting lists of all registered black voters. In half the places I later toured in October this was never done. At each meeting, I also urged that an intensive precinct canvass be undertaken. No house-to-house canvass was done in three-quarters of the state...
...about the Northern workers. He told me that he was forced to take the blame when volunteers were ineffective. In Adams County where he was running for the state senate, Morrissey told me how he had left detailed instructions for the volunteers about how he wanted the precinct canvass organized. He explained that he had been forced to go to Jackson for a couple of days. When he returned, he found that the volunteers had gotten only halfway through...
...turned out, Morrissey was glad that the task had not been finished. The Northern volunteers working on the canvassing cards had organized them by street within city rather than by street within precinct. It is impossible to canvass an entire street in rural areas as there are often large gaps between houses. Often these divisions are marked by rivers and by long stretches of bridges. Usually if one canvasses within one precinct on one street, there is a good chance that houses will be close together. Morrissey then had to take an additional week reorganizing the cards by precinct...
...Washington, D.C. and North Carolina, New Hampshire campaign manager Mike Brower explained. McCloskey has a permanent staff of about 16 people, with 60 volunteers coming up on weekends and over 60 more recruited on a full time basis for the month of January. By March they hope to canvass all the Republicans and Democrats twice over...
White, on the other hand, has relied on his campaign machine rather than on his personality to win the election--an approach which his weekly polls tell him is working well. The primary thrust of his organization is a canvass of almost all 152,000 voters in the city, using computers to discover the issues most important to different groups of voters. His campaign manager John P. Marttila, who also ran Father Drinan's campaign last year, last week denied the charge that the campaign lacked the personal touch, "What could be more personal than going door to door...