canvassers
Petition signature gatherers
Canvassers are people who go door to door or approach others in public to solicit votes, opinions, donations, or sales.
Political campaigns deploy canvassers before elections: Canvassers knocked on doors throughout the neighborhood.
The term also applies to those conducting surveys or selling goods directly to households.
Organized effort toward goal
- votersThose who cast ballots
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- candidatesThose seeking selection
- constituentsParts of a whole
ballots · turnout · precincts · registries · primaries · democracy · electorate · swing voters
Unpaid willing workers
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- communityCollective of connected people
- mobilizationOrganizing for action
- outreachProactive community assistance
coalition · local · engagement · activism · advocacy · movement · empowerment · participation
Striking to announce presence
- householdsCohabitating domestic units
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- neighborhoodsResidential districts of towns
- flyersPrinted promotional handouts
pamphlets · brochures · solicitation · visits · walking · clipboard · scripts · cold-calling
Frequency of sound
- convincingAble to persuade
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- talking pointsPrepared discussion themes
- rebuttalsResponses disproving opposing claims
objections · engagement · dialogue · conversations · rapport · influence · messaging · argumentation
Forms collecting structured responses
- data collectionSystematic accumulation of facts
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- respondentsThose who answer queries
- samplingExtracting subset for study
interviews · market research · demographics · census · enumeration · field research · public opinion · focus groups
campaign
Organized effort toward goal
- votersThose who cast ballots
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- candidatesThose seeking selection
constituents · ballots · turnout · precincts · registries · primaries · democracy · electorate · swing voters · voter registration
volunteers
Unpaid willing workers
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- communityCollective of connected people
- mobilizationOrganizing for action
outreach · coalition · local · engagement · activism · advocacy · movement · empowerment · participation · townhall
knocking
Striking to announce presence
- householdsCohabitating domestic units
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- neighborhoodsResidential districts of towns
flyers · pamphlets · brochures · solicitation · visits · walking · clipboard · scripts · cold-calling · foot soldiers
pitch
Frequency of sound
- convincingAble to persuade
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- talking pointsPrepared discussion themes
rebuttals · objections · engagement · dialogue · conversations · rapport · influence · messaging · argumentation · solicitation
questionnaires
Forms collecting structured responses
- data collectionSystematic accumulation of facts
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- respondentsThose who answer queries
sampling · interviews · market research · demographics · census · enumeration · field research · public opinion · focus groups · tallying
- sales repssales reps, field agents, representatives, sales agents, drummers
- canvassingknock, door knocking, door-to-door, doorknocking, knocking
- political organizerscommunity organizers, grassroots leaders, mobilizers, volunteer coordinators, precinct captains
- street fundraisingclipboard, petition, donation box, face-to-face, direct debit
- ToriesConservative Party, Tory, Toryism, Thatcherism, Thatcherites
- spamspam, junk mail, spam filter, spam folder, bulk mail