2016 Postmortem

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Thu Sep 22, 2016, 03:56 PM Sep 2016

Do you do door knocks on Republicans?

Here in WI we only do OUR voters. From our VAN lists. Any other election I rebelled against this. But, this election our opponent's supporters do not operate in a land of reality, real reality. The BBC interviewed a Trump supporter in Pennsylvania who said of Hillary “A truthful word has never come out of her mouth”. Really? She lies all the time? Where do you get that idea? No don’t tell me, I already know. You think she lies all the time and yet you’ll vote for Trump.

At this point, convincing a member of the Republican base that any Democrat is anything other that a criminal come to oppress them is like convince an Orthodox Jew to enjoy a BLT. As the saying goes, you can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position that they didn’t use logic to arrive at. And there’s no logic involved in the Republican base. They just believe what they want to believe and work backward from there. As I said I live in Wisconsin.

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Do you do door knocks on Republicans? (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Sep 2016 OP

Not anymore. CanonRay Sep 2016 #1

I got accosted by a man in NH, pretty abusive behavior... Agschmid Sep 2016 #2

No we identify our voters and then knock on doors of Democratic voters. Demsrule86 Sep 2016 #3

In Florida, we only knock on democratic and no affiliated doors yeoman6987 Sep 2016 #4

This year a lot of Republicans are voting Democratic. LAS14 Sep 2016 #5

California--We only knock on doors (target) Democrats. Same thing with skylucy Sep 2016 #6

No, we only hit houses with Democrats in them Gothmog Sep 2016 #7

Well, first I light the paper bag. Then I knock. Then I run. BobbyDrake Sep 2016 #8

One theory up here in NH is not to Raven Sep 2016 #9

That would be a waste of time. n/t Lil Missy Sep 2016 #10

You can phone bank instead- they're making sure Dems are registered and asking for volunteers too... bettyellen Sep 2016 #11

CanonRay

(14,112 posts)

1. Not anymore.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 04:03 PM

Sep 2016

These people are out of their minds, irrational and violent.

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

2. I got accosted by a man in NH, pretty abusive behavior...

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 04:06 PM

Sep 2016

So I don't anymore.

Demsrule86

(68,643 posts)

3. No we identify our voters and then knock on doors of Democratic voters.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 04:14 PM

Sep 2016

Some are registered Dems for years but really have morphed into GOP types...they can be nasty. One threatened to sick his dog on me in 12, I calmly told him, it would be a shame to kill such a handsome animal and walked back to the car where my daughter waited...one waited in the car and one knocked on the door. This year I am in town ...not in the boonies so it has been easier. I live in Ohio.

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

4. In Florida, we only knock on democratic and no affiliated doors

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 04:18 PM

Sep 2016

LAS14

(13,783 posts)

5. This year a lot of Republicans are voting Democratic.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Sep 22, 2016, 04:20 PM

Sep 2016

Or thinking about it. Print out your favorite document addressing Hillary myths and hand it to those who seem to be on the fence or near that. There are too many to handle by talking with people at a door knock.