canvassing
Door-to-door campaigning
Canvassing is the act of going through a neighborhood or area to solicit votes, opinions, or sales, typically by knocking on doors or approaching people directly.
Political campaigns rely heavily on canvassing to reach voters before elections.
The term extends to any systematic effort to survey or examine something thoroughly: After canvassing the options, we chose the cheaper plan.
A canvas of opinion is the result of such an effort.
Directly between residences
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- votersThose who cast ballots
- ballotsVoting forms
- precinctsBounded administrative areas
constituents · candidates · campaigns · get-out-the-vote · turnout · electioneering · primaries · caucuses
Directly between residences
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- communityCollective of connected people
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
local · petitions · townhall · meetings · engagement · participation · residents · coalition
Systematic opinion gathering
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- dataFacts for analysis
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
- samplingExtracting subset for study
fieldwork · census · research · respondents · opinions · interviews · door-to-door · focus-groups
Directly between residences
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
- fundraisingSoliciting money for organizations
- donationsGifts to organizations
- pledgesFormal promises given
appeals · cold-calling · pitch · prospecting · salespeople · contributions · membership · subscriptions
Art of persuasive language
- convinceCause to believe
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- influencePower to affect others
- talking-pointsScripted positions for interviews
pitch · debate · messaging · scripted · rebuttals · objections · rapport · engagement
door-to-door
Directly between residences
precincts · constituents · candidates · campaigns · get-out-the-vote · turnout · electioneering · primaries · caucuses · party
door-to-door
Directly between residences
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- communityCollective of connected people
- organizingSystematically putting in order
neighborhood · local · petitions · townhall · meetings · engagement · participation · residents · coalition · mobilization
polling
Systematic opinion gathering
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- dataFacts for analysis
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
sampling · fieldwork · census · research · respondents · opinions · interviews · door-to-door · focus-groups · enumeration
door-to-door
Directly between residences
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
- fundraisingSoliciting money for organizations
- donationsGifts to organizations
pledges · appeals · cold-calling · pitch · prospecting · salespeople · contributions · membership · subscriptions · collections
rhetoric
Art of persuasive language
talking-points · pitch · debate · messaging · scripted · rebuttals · objections · rapport · engagement · one-on-one
- campaign jargonstump speech, talking points, sound bites, soundbite, soundbites
- civicsballot, election, ballots, Bill of Rights, branches of government
- democracyvote, voting, election, elections, ballot
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- advocacypetition, advocating, protest sign, championing, picket sign
canvassingneglecting
Failing to attend to
ignoring · disregarding · abandoning · overlooking · inaction
canvassingavoiding
Deliberately staying clear
withdrawing · retreating · shunning · evading · staying away
canvas, canvass, canvasser, canvassed, canvasses, canvassers, canvasback, canvasbacks