Trump Ends a 28-Stop Campaign Blitz; Perth’s Hardest-Working Canvasser Says He Once Did 28 Doors in Letham and 27 of Them Had a Dog
The President has held a final weekend of rallies ahead of the midterms. Perth compares notes on the art of getting round.
A campaign rally, which in Perth would be held in a church hall with a tea urn. Photo: Brooks Charlotte, “Large crowd assembled at a political rally in South Bend, Indiana, for presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower”, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Donald Trump has been making a final push ahead of tomorrow’s US midterm elections, holding a last rally at the end of a 28-stop blitz and asking supporters to vote as if he were on the ballot himself.
Twenty-eight stops is a lot. But Perth has its own legends of the campaign trail.
“I did 28 doors in Letham one Saturday in 1997,” said a retired volunteer for a party he would rather not name. “Twenty-seven had a dog. One had a goose. The goose was the worst. I still don’t like going past that street.”
His wife said he had told the goose story “at every election since”, which he said was “important, because people need to know what it’s really like out there”.
Political experts say that big rallies help to fire up supporters. In Perth, a big political rally is anything with more than 30 people and a tea urn. “We once had 60 at a hustings in the Salutation,” said a Bridgend man. “Somebody said it felt like Woodstock. It was mostly a discussion about bin collections.”
The Perthetic notes that the American campaign is nearly over. In Perth, it is never over. Somewhere in the city, right now, a leaflet is being pushed through a letterbox and a dog is getting very excited about it.
The real story: Final weekend campaign push (BBC News)
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