Word: canvass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary. "Without question," says Edward O'Donnell, McGovern's national youth director, "it was those seven weekends that turned the campaign around. We really had to pull teeth to get those kids up there." But enough of them came to enable McGovern's volunteers to canvass 200,000 in the state...
...names, telephone numbers and demographic particulars of a million or so voters. Feed in recorded messages by the candidate, slanting each pitch to appeal to a different ethnic or social group. Plug in a bank of telephones. Push a few buttons. And bleep, whir, dingaling, the machines tirelessly canvass the constituency with "personalized" calls (TIME...
Laurie W. Saunders and Barbara A. Schram, students at the Graduate School of Education and organizers of the campaign, held the reception to mobilize backing for April's Massachusetts primary. They asked students to register to vote and to canvass and distribute information sheets...
...campaign strategy relied heavily on a telephone canvass conducted by fifteen volunteers in the Manchester headquarters...
Evers then organized a registration campaign for the last two weeks of June and dispatched a group of students from his Jackson headquarters to canvass in Copiah. I did not go but heard reports that the first couple of days of the campaign were a success. However, after three days, another dispute arose over where the canvassers would go. The younger blacks felt they were being left out of a policy-making role and they felt they should decide where the students should canvass...