115. GOING BACK TO MY GRASSROOTS: the return of the ground campaign
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hello! Away from the set piece speeches and TV interviews, British elections are fought by thousands of party activists going door-to-door to speak to voters. But what impact does this really have and why are political campaigns around the world increasingly looking to the ‘ground campaign’? Becky Bond tells us the story of how her team pioneered a new way of involving volunteers in the Bernie Sanders campaign. Then Vincent Pons and Simon Kruschinski explain why door-to-door canvassing has made a return to French and German elections in recent years.
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Comedian Rosie Jones comes back to talk to us about what's keeping her cheerful in the election news this week
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| 1:35.4 | This says reasons to be cheerful with Ed Miliband and Jeff Lloyd. Hello. Where's Jeff you ask? |
| 1:43.6 | Cruises we've had a slightly unchirical moment. Jeff and I were just about to record our little |
| 1:47.9 | chat with him and his attic and me on the phone and then his computer blew up. Don't worry the rest |
| 1:54.1 | of the episode is all ready to go but I'm afraid nobody knows this week. I can tell you what we're |
| 2:00.9 | going to be talking about though. It's very much dominating my life at the moment. It's the |
| 2:04.4 | ground campaign in elections. The part of campaigns fought door to door by candidates and activists |
| 2:09.2 | in their local areas. At a time when a lot of the focus on election campaigns is about the use of |
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