canvasser
Example Sentences
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California voters complain that canvassers for a measure to repeal a law expanding protections for fast-food workers lied about the effects.
From Los Angeles Times
The canvasser “really appealed to progressives. There are a lot of easy marks if you say, ‘Hey, do you support giving fast-food workers a fair wage?’
From Los Angeles Times
They dangle opportunities — volunteer, canvasser, campaign manager, staffer — to idealistic upstarts, padding the youngsters’ resumes and sucking the reformist out of them.
From Los Angeles Times
The nonprofit, she said, spent a million dollars on billboards, TV ads, registration drives, canvassers and phone banks to turnout Latino voters.
From Los Angeles Times
Since February, when Garza’s organization launched the project, canvassers have gone into Black communities in nearly every U.S. state to conduct the confidential, self-reporting survey, which is also available online.
From Seattle Times
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