Usually by this time in a campaign we would be going door-to-door in the towns in Carbon County campaigning for the Democratic presidential candidate. “We” would be those volunteers willing to encounter dogs, hills in Nesquehoning, the up and down steps in the west end of Palmerton, the difficulty of finding people in apartment buildings, broken sidewalks, inoperable doorbells, and very occasionally, a really rude person.
We can’t do that this year. We can’t ask volunteers to visit people while Covid-19 cases are again rising in Pennsylvania. We can’t ask residents to open their doors to strangers on their porches.
What we can do is a literature drop. We are visiting Democratic households, dropping off a Biden/Harris piece that includes a small American flag and a number to call if people need a ride or want a yard sign. It is not as effective as a front porch pitch, but it is something. If we can garner one out of a hundred votes, that’s one percent. Clinton lost Pennsylvania in 2016 by less than one percent.
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