This is a an area that has been long-stolen by Democrats and in the decade I've lived here I've never had a canvasser knock on my door. Suddenly this year they're actually canvassing, this was the second time and it was on a Sunday morning even so they are trying to catch people at home. Plainly told the timid gal who came to my doorstep that the person they're canvassing for is one of those who voted to end cash bail in Illinois for everything up to 2nd degree murder and to get off of my lawn.
If they're suddenly going door-to-door in neighborhoods they consider to be owned by them then they are clearly not confident in the steal this time around even in this corrupt state. There are even Democrat sheriffs and states attorneys suing the governor for signing that bill into law and a pamphlet arrived in the mail exposing him that was written by a well-known Democrat columnist, his own party is throwing him under the bus as they're realizing that they've pissed off too many normies this time.
Has anyone else been experiencing this?
I have a Republican relative that is running for office. She can't get the GOP funding unless she goes door to door and meets the voters. She's talked to more than 3500 voters. She's putting in the work to win. Sometimes she runs into rabid Trump-haters but most people are nice and respond to her pitch. I think she'll win. But the Republicans have been doing it this way for years. Dems not so much, they rely on cheating. I think a red wave is coming.
That's what's unusual about it, they've "owned" this area for so long they never meet with anyone and just send out ads with photoshoots of the same actors year after year.
Also your relative would have been doing that months ago before primaries, not five weeks before the general.
She has been since early spring, working her butt off. I'm shocked by how much effort goes into it. Another reason I'd never want to be a politician.