WASHINGTON — This summer, with Americans hunkered down at home as the Covid-19 pandemic raged, teams of organizers located in a half-dozen battleground states made thousands of phone calls and put a ...

Deep Canvassing is a canvassing method that will be critical in getting undecided voters to support Joe Biden because it involves building a deep connection with people who are suffering through this ...

It is becoming axiomatic that you can’t talk people out of hardened views. Particularly on political subjects; the common view is that we are in a “post-persuasion” era. Perhaps that depressing ...

A national network of grassroots organizations says a new form of canvassing can help change the preferences of voters, including those living in rural areas, to generate more support for progressive ...

This story originally published online at The Assembly. Steven Demastus cracked open his storm door, peering warily at the woman on his front steps. Looking up at him in gold-rimmed glasses and ...

Canvassers usually knock on doors hoping to chat briefly. With deep canvassing, the idea is to engage voters in more meaningful conversations. By Jennifer Medina MINNEAPOLIS — Late on a Sunday ...

I spent a recent Sunday in Croydon, Pennsylvania, a working-class town along Neshaminy Creek in the southeastern corner of the state, learning and practicing deep canvassing, a promising method for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kamala Harris MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images It was about an hour into a late-October Zoom call with six strangers that I looked ...

It’s Nov. 1, and Precious Cogwell is canvassing in Alamance County, North Carolina, encouraging people to go to the polls the next day. No one answers Cogwell’s knock at the front door of a brick ...

People who are going door to door in rural Colorado are taking a longer view of how political campaigning can help build stronger, more responsive communities. Mary Dodd is the chair of the Montezuma ...