Canvassing: who answers the door?
We have a No Soliciting sign on the front porch window right beside the front door. To us, that means just about everybody. So we hardly ever answer the door. We hardly ever even go and look to see who it is anymore, either. Unless we are expecting someone.
That’s because we read about home invasions, including in our neighbourhood. In the past, we’ve had people wanting to look at our hot water heater (you’ve gotta be kidding, right?), wanting to reroof our house which has a perfectly good roof, wanting to talk to us about religion, wanting us to support their particular good cause. (As for the last, I might even buy those chocolate products but 99% of the time they contain almonds. You can get these products nut-free now, you know? And anyway, kids should not be knocking on the doors of strangers.)
But ironically, I would not mind talking to candidates. I was glad to run into Liz West on our street when I was coming home from the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. And did I miss some other candidate last night? Maybe not, because no flyer was left after the doorbell rang at 8;15 p.m.
Would it work for candidates to publicize a canvassing schedule, “I will be on this street on the afternoon of this day.”? Or put up notices on poles a few days ahead? “Coming soon, Cathy Candidate’s canvass of Main Street, on Oct. 4th between 2-4 p.m. “ Or are these schedules considered trade secrets; would we end up with multiple candidates in the same location?
