canvasser

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• Every four years, when Michael Bloomberg runs for Mayor, the Big Apple is transformed into a winter wonderland where it's Christmas all year round — at least for the consultants, ad salespeople, canvassers, caterers, and hangers-on whom the mayor employs. Quantitative electioneering
• Now the group is under fire after an investigation revealed dozens of their "canvassers" - were ex-felons, some still on parole. Is the '08 Election In Process of Being Hijacked?
• You're speaking corresponding with someone who is outraged by the actions of ACORN, who wonders, when he votes, if his franchise has been made irrelevant by the fog of false data created by their "canvassers"; with someone who is outraged that his taxes go to support professional rabble rousers with no demonstrable purpose except to foment unrest. Jeffrey Rosen on the two important race cases that will be argued in the Supreme Court in the next few days.
• And since I'm considered a "veteran" canvasser by this point — I've been with the office almost a year — and since I had a good night and met my fundraising quota for the week by Wednesday, no less, I figure, why not go ahead and tell Trent. Takin' a Break
• Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house -- a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day " drummers.
• It urged candidates and canvassers to avoid handling or helping voters complete their postal ballot papers.
• Meanwhile the battle for votes in the area has intensified, with teams of canvassers from all parties converging on both town and country in search of support.
• The duties of this "hard-worked" functionary consist of the checking of the Parliamentary voters list of his ward, once every two years, and of acting as chief canvasser and election agent for the Ministerial candidate, who, however, is usually returned unopposed; and for these onerous duties he is rewarded by an ungrateful Government with the "beggarly" salary of �0 a year. Chapter XXIV
• The question of what to do was answered for me one day when a canvasser from the white opposition Progressive Party (now called the Progressive Federal Party) came to the front door to sell the virtues of his party. Chapter 1 - Recruitment
• Volunteers would be trained as campaign managers and canvassers, and leaders would be groomed for campaigns for local office - alderman, city council, state rep - and campaign on credit reform.