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Deep Canvassing - Western Wisconsin Votes A partner organization that isnt doing electoral work may ask its members to canvass via #KnockEveryDoor. Please enter a valid email and try again. Ella then managed the Leadership LAB project at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, where a team of more than 1,000 volunteers and staff collaborated to innovate new methods of voter persuasion and prejudice reduction and apply them on the ground to help win LGBT rights campaigns across the country. Through a deep canvass, we can at times identify a voters deeply bias and prejudices, views that may not be identified through polling or focus groups but can be utilized by your opposition. Paid for by Up PAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Fleischer does improv in his spare time, and the training sometimes felt like a well-oiled comedy routine. In our experience in 5 years of canvassing on same-sex marriage in LA, we logged 12,000 completed conversations. We have a national reputation for our success developing practical, positive, non-partisan, non-judgmental ways to connect with voters. The leaders worked to keep the mood relaxed and optimistic. Massachusetts voters could choose to keep or throw out a law that banned discrimination based on gender identity. "Our ability to change voters' hearts and minds has been measured, this time for real," Fleischer said, contrasting the intensely reviewed work of Broockman and Kalla to the earlier, retracted paper. Fleischer is especially interested in learning whether deep canvassing can affect peoples thinking on two issues racial prejudice and abortion rights. But the more they analyzed LaCours study design and results, the more problems they found. See also the AYCC website for more information about deep canvassing and an example of a useful Climate Conversation Report Tool. Im with Black Lives Matter, and I know a lot of trans people, the woman told Riley. LaCour appeared to be breaking new ground, showing that one brief but memorable interaction could reduce prejudice. But he also knew that political persuasion had not been studied often. Effective Lobbying and Deep Canvassing - Institute for Change Leaders Fanned out across the neighborhood were more than three dozen Leadership Lab volunteers, many of them local college students, as well as progressive activists from around the country hoping to learn about changing voters minds. The curse of the orange hats, read a headline in Salon. Its only right. I think theyre wonderful. Topping and dozens of other canvassers were a part of that 2016 effort. LaCour claimed that there was only an effect from the deep canvass if it came from someone who was LGBT. Heres a 2015 video example of deep canvassing. Have a Conversation, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/magazine/how-do-you-change-voters-minds-have-a-conversation.html. Leadership Canvas Owl, Fox & Dean Approaching voters with emotional honesty and vulnerability. And in that moment, he points out that a transgender nondiscrimination law would help people who feel discriminated against at school or work. What is a deep canvass and how is it different from a traditional canvass? Toward the end of the conversation, the canvasser nudges the voter into thinking about how that experience can relate to the plight of transgender people. In 2020, these seem like radical propositions. While a discussion of transgender rights can trigger deeply ingrained feelings about sex and gender roles, the issue is also a fairly recent political consideration for many people. Going door to door, a Los Angeles-based activist group tries to reduce prejudice against transgender people. Note: One needs to login/become a member to access webinar. Whats the best way to convince a voter at the door? Follow The Great Battlefield and others on SoundCloud. "We had a certain sense of responsibility.". Its not about calling people out or labeling them fill-in-the-blank-phobic. In this conversation, recorded in March 2016, a Leadership LAB volunteer speaks with a voter in Los Angeles about including transgender people in non-discrimination laws using the same approach that was studied by Broockman and Kalla in Miami in 2015. As Fleischer returned to the discrimination she had faced, Nancy paused and said, It felt terrible. A few minutes later, when he asked her if she saw a connection between your experience and how you want to treat transgender people, she said she did. The Leadership LAB He handed her a small video player, on which she watched a Baptist minister in Houston make the case about bathrooms. Thats the thing theyre happier when they come out, whenever everybody knows, she said. Its a real heart-to-heart between strangers. The idea is that people learn lessons more durably when they come to the conclusions on their own. The Leadership LAB of the Los Angeles LGBT Center trains people in canvassing techniques aimed at reducing prejudice. We work to empower volunteers to connect the personal to the political with voters in order to make long-term, meaningful impacts on elections. Maybe, as The Wall Street Journal suggested, Fleischers efforts merely flattered the ideological sensibilities of liberals. But this week, a new study published in Science by David Broockman, an assistant professor of political economy at Stanford, and Joshua Kalla, a graduate student in political science at Berkeley, appears to serve as vindication of Fleischers work. Oops. You can also go more in-depth on the science behind deep canvassing by reading the academic study referenced by the New York Times that was published by political scientists David Broockman and Josh Kalla in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

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