Posted by Duane Dichiara at 12:00 am on Jun 05, 2006 4 Comments
On Thursday, my job was all but done. The mail was written,
printed, and dropped. The radio buys were running. The paid calls
were recorded and scheduled. So, like most every election, I
decided to spend the last few days walking precincts so I could get
a first hand feel of what the electorate was thinking.
Over the weekend I walked two large precincts – one in Vista and
one in Carlsbad – in North County San Diego. The targets were GOP
and Decline to State Primary voters. Probably close to a total of
250 households, of which I spoke to around 85… maybe more.
The temperature the first day (Vista) was a boiling 95 and I
drew a hilly precinct in an inland upper middle-class community
called Shadowridge. This precinct is not in the hotly contested
CD50. It is represented by Congressman Darrell Issa, and amusingly
I actually ended up walking his precinct and knocking on his door
(he wasn’t home). The second day, mercifully, the weather was in
the 70’s and I was fairly near the coast in another upper
middle-class community. In the second precinct, I was in the middle
of the Bilbray-Busby brawl. These are both very, very Republican
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