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Go door-to-door for Kerry. It works.

Posted by Patrick

The Yale Civic Engagement Project compared door-to-door canvassing with other get-out-the-vote methods in the 2000 (and other elections) and discovered this:

Face-to-face contact raised turnout in the treatment group by as much as 8.5 percentage points. In addition, we found that face-to-face contact with this group produced spillover effects. That is, the intervention even had a positive impact on voter turnout among other household members of the treatment group, raising their turnout by 2.7 percentage-points. Thus, for every 100 treatment subjects assigned to a canvassing campaign, 4.3 additional votes were mobilized through intended contact and another 4.1 votes were mobilized through incidental contact, or spillover.

(Via Sam Wang's Meta-Analysis of State Polls page.)

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