He reminds me of polling day at Richmond upon Thames in the 1983 general election. Having been up to do the good mornings and working ever since, I arrived on a doorstep 10 minutes before the polls closed.
A Conservative Party worker arrived on the same doorstep at the same moment. We compared notes and found we were there to knock up the same person.
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I remember a commentator at the last election who earnestly decreed that the Lib Dems would need to develop a system that identified potential voters and got them to the polls.
I do wonder if any of them have ever paid any attention to real politics in their lives.
On the evening of a more recent by-election I was sent to knock up voters marked with the cryptic code "AND". A group of Tories watched me for a bit and then one of them asked me why I was knocking up their voters. I just said that they were on my list and carried on while the Tories went off in a bemused huddle.
I later discovered that AND stood for "Asian - No Data".
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