Canvassing, interrupted

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's campaign says it knocks on a million doors a week. Joe Biden's campaign says it knocks on zero. Host Scott Bland talks to Miles Baker — former door knocker, organizer and current political strategist — about the silver linings of the pandemic. Halting in-person canvassing has actually been a useful way to retool campaign strategies.Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Miles Baker is campaigns director at The Action Factory.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Southern Company is an industry leader in resilience and innovation.
0:04.4	They're making energy smarter and more sustainable for the 9 million customers
0:09.1	they serve across the country, from modernizing their infrastructure to setting a goal of net zero
0:15.0	carbon emissions by 2050, Southern Company is committed to building a
0:19.7	resilient energy future today and for the generations to come.
0:25.0	Learn more at southern company.com slash resilience.
0:29.0	Southern Company building the future of energy.
0:32.0	If... Building the future of Energy. If you go out to knock,
0:36.0	um, and you say like, hey.
0:40.0	Hello.
0:42.0	Hi, Nerdcasters.
0:44.0	Hi, I'm Miles Baker.
0:46.0	And I'm Scott Bland.
0:47.0	I'd like to talk to you.
0:51.0	Have a minute.
0:52.0	And I'm here volunteering for Barack Obama, and I'd like to talk to you have a minute. And I'm here volunteering for Barack Obama,
0:54.0	and I'd like to have a conversation about that.
0:56.0	A day in the life of a canvasser,
0:58.0	well, in the before times.
1:00.0	He was not expecting visitors.
1:01.0	Can you tell us what that was like?
1:02.8	Let me try.
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