Without an identifying sticker and some sort of handout you're just any jerk off the street. You can't just hit the ground running and expect to be taken seriously in a society saturated with solicitors and salesmen. The point remains there is a lot of ancillary things that need to be done. Truthfully, I am not privy to all the complexities which arise in these stages and am probably forgetting an essential task. Post-canvassing responsibilites involve 1) collecting and aggregating the newly-acquired data in the form of an updated spreadsheet, 2) drafting and mailing follow-up letters, and 3) refining calling lists. Among other easily-overlooked tasks, pre-canvassing functions include 1) financing, designing and ordering supplementary literature, 2) area mapping, 3) preemptive targeting and spreadsheet tailoring, and 4) recruiting and organizing volunteers. That said, I'd be remiss if I didn't at least mention some of the duties associated with those phases. But, back to the door-to-door stuff.įor the sake of simplicity, I'm setting aside preparatory and subsequential tasks and focusing solely on the groundwork aspect. There is a lot of validity to the rational ignorance supposition, but the long-term consequences of voter disconnect are not innocuous.
In local elections the apathy is especially disgraceful with just a tiny fraction of eligible voters turning out to a precint five minutes away.
Now, I'll save my thoughts on voting for another post, but it's truly pathetic that Americans have to be repeatedly poked and prodded to fulfill a civic duty that people have died fighting for. I say curiously because doorbell-ringing and neighborhood canvassing has all the hallmarks of an ineffective and inefficient activity. Curiously, this postulate remains unchallenged in both political circles and in the broader context of drumming up awareness for pet-causes. Judging by the frenetic "get-out-the-vote" crusades in the last presidential election, I'd say the stock in this form of vote soliciting is higher than it's ever been. Has it ever dawned on these wankers that being an attention whore makes all their so-called piety and self-righteousness seem like a farce?Ĭonventional wisdom purports that door-to-door campaigning is the most fundamental undertaking behind successful grassroots efforts. I think this might be worse than those holier-than-thou staight-edge losers who put "X's" on their hands to tell the world they don't do drugs. One guy with piercings and tattoos is smugly quoting the bible to prove some point which validates his nonconformity. I was just watching something on Fox News about punk kids who are head over heels for Jesus Christ. 15 years ago, who would ever have guessed that the murder rate in PG County would be 3 times as high as Brooklyn, NY?
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PG has some grimey hoods just outside the District, but what the hell is going on over there? It's like crack is just making its way down to Maryland. The Bronx, with a 2003 population of 1,363,198 has 57 homicides. Brooklyn's 2003 population was pegged at 2,483,164.
So far, very-urban Brooklyn is at 94 homicides (Brooklyn North has 48, Brooklyn South has 46). PG County is largely suburban (some of it is even rural) and has a 2003 population of 838,716, mentioned in the link above. Heard on the radio today that Prince George's County reached its 99th homicide this year. Just end the suspense and speculation and call the new digs Living-on-Campus-Sucks-Ass Village. Is it really that hard to assign some generic, uninspiring name to a bunch of college dorms before they get built? The last two residential projects built on campus (presumably Housing V and VI) are Liberty Square and Potomac Heights. Why this school insists on tacking Roman numerals to every construction project is a mystery. 1, several parking lots and portions of others will be closed permanently to make room for construction of Housing VII in the northeast sector of the Fairfax Campus. I saw this message on Mason's webpage yesterday: As of Monday, Aug. Despite its perennially craptastic Op/Ed page and slanted presentation of real news, the NY Times is still unmatched in its coverage of benign personal narratives and neighborhood meddlings. Anybody that hasn't lived under a rock for the past twelve years has witnessed this ironic, but logical, trend. Here's an interesting article from the NY Times about how the ethnicity of those preparing your food frequently does not match the ethnic cuisine itself.
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