When Trump Voters Open Their Doors
By Carol Smolenski

When I tell my friends that I do door-to-door political canvassing as part of a project that engages people in a deep conversation about why they vote the way they do, the first skeptical question I get is: Do people really open their door to you? The surprising answer I give is “yes, they do!”

I first signed up for CTC Together in late 2017 as one of the many people who despaired about the election of Donald Trump and the growing political polarization in our country. But I genuinely believed that we could overcome some of the divisions by just…

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