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Octavio, 19, a shy mechanic from a poor settlement outside Tuxpan, knows how hard it can be, and he is trying to hold on. In March he paid $2,200 to a door-to-door smuggling service that picked him up in Tuxpan and dropped him off in the Hamptons. But it was no luxury ride. The trip took eight days, including three days and nights of nonstop driving from Douglas, Ariz., where he walked across the border, to the Hamptons. The Chevy Astro van that took him through the U.S. was crammed with 13 people--11 other...
...think on Sunday we had 40 to 50 votes. Haddock-Riley had 500,” said Grimeland in a speech to his campaign staff following the announcement of the results. Grimeland went on to congratulate his supporters for building a strong voter base and for going door-to-door to convince additional voters to support his campaign...
...feel strongly about, seeking to gain momentum one Harvard student at a time. ONE BY ONEGabe M. Scheinmann ’08, the candidates’ campaign manager, says, “What we want to do is focus on meeting as many students as possible, hopefully all, going door-to-door, in the freshmen dorms, in the Quad, by the River.” Last year’s campaign manager for the ‘outsider’ ticket, Connor C. Wilson ’07, says that he believes this strategy could work...
...area and together they consult it often, checking off residents as they travel door to door. Today, they are calling on homes they have not visited before. Over the course of 55 minutes, Murphy knocks on 25 doors and speaks face-to-face with 10 people.“Door-knocking is a numbers game in the sense that most people won’t be in when you call,” Field says.Murphy has faced so many doors since his campaign started that sometimes they all blur together.“I can?...
...days [consist of] going door-to-door. I’m on the telephone,” he says. “I’m just going to be out and about more than anybody else...