Dialing the Phone Was a Crapshoot at Election Time

Who would I find on the other end of the line? Photo by Katrin Hauf on Unsplash.

I signed up to make phone calls for the Maine Democratic party where I live, in the part of the state that went for President Trump in 2016. The Dems believed they had a chance to elect Joe Biden and to flip the Senate seat from red to blue.

Once a week for two months, I made about 50 phone calls to Democrats, Republicans, Green Party members, and unaffiliated voters, asking…