Have you ever had a politician knock on your door?

[Radical Activist]

Any good campaigner will knock on doors for support. Have you ever had a candidate for office knock on your door? Did it make you more likely to vote for that person? Was it anyone nationally known?

I've never had one knock on mine but I've done a lot of door knocking for candidates. It can be fun sometimes.

[graywarrior]

1. Yep.

A republican running for a city position, I forget which one. He was very pleasant and I could tell he was nervous. Takes guts to do that.

[maveric]

2. San Diego City Councilman George Stevens. 1994

Was running for re-election. He went door to door talking to "the people", wearing so many gold chains and rings, driving a brand new Mercedes coupe, that "the people" on my block were not impressed with him at all.
I voted for him anyway. He's a dem and his opponent was a typical stuffed shirt/do nothing repug.
He did win that election and he is/was a good man. His delivery just stunk.

[Radical Activist]

15. Gold chains?

Was he running for Mr. T?

I've seen elected officials do that too and I feel the same way about it.

[gollygee]

3. Yes

several. Just local folks though. Democrats and Republicans.

[Bunny]

4. Yep, and I voted for him for that reason.

He was a Democrat, and he was running for mayor in my tiny little town (pop. 5400 approx.). I had no idea who to vote for, in a small town like this I don't really pay attention to who the mayor is, but I voted for him because he came to my door and introduced himself.

[Radical Activist]

16. Interesting

I'm curious about how many people will vote for someone for that reason. It seems like a lot.

[Nikia]

5. Everyone knocked on my grandparents door

They often already knew them. If they didn't know them personally, the candidate already knew people who they knew. It was fun to talk to politicians.
When I moved to a different county with my father, we had one local politician who I did not know knock on our door.
Door to door campaigning for local politicians seemed to be common though in my part of Ohio.
Since we've been in Wisconsin, no politician has knocked on our door or left door to door campaign literature. I think that sort of campaigning is rather lacking here.
I think that door to door campaigning not only got more people to vote for a particuliar candidate but to vote in local elections in general and encouraged others to get involved in the party and local politics.

[Kat45]

6. Only those running for local (town) office.

[bigwillq]

7. Yes

Just local folks though.

[Telly Savalas]

8. The woman who is now my MP knocked on our door about 2 weeks

before the last Canadian election.

What's really cool is that a couple of weeks after she won, she and a few of her volunteers were outside a subway station passing out thank you flyers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Sure

The first time it was a guy you may have heard of, when he was in his first run for Congress. I was at some friends' house and their folks weren't home, but the candidate stood there and talked to us for a good five minutes, and he didn't talk to us like we were kids, either. He asked us what was important to us and stuff like that.

He won that election, btw, and a few more after that, and later got a job in the Clinton Administration.



Leon Panetta.

[AlCzervik]

10. no but the Gropenfuher was on my street for a photo-op about redistricting

funny part was him and my dumbass gop rep were trying to show how our street was the dividing line for the district, it wasn't, they had the wrong neighborhood.

[UrbScotty]

11. A county commissioner once, and a Granholm volunteer in 2002 (nt)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. Yep.

State Representative candidates regularly knock on my mom's door. People there seem to love the personal attention.
Duckie

[NNadir]

13. A guy running as the Democratic Candidate for congress once when I was a

kid.

He had the same chance of being elected as I have of being elected Pope after Ratzinger kicks off. I grew up in a solidly Repuke area.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Ethan Berkowitz, my Democratic

state representative, came around when he was running last time. He's now running for governor, and I really hope he wins.

[Alleycat]

17. Only local candidates

By that I mean very local. Borough council members and mayors.

[begin_within]

18. Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) knocked on my door about 10 years ago

when he was running for a San Diego city council seat, and he was very polite, although he didn't stay long, I got a very good impression of him from that visit.