____________________In Texas, ‘every conversation matters’The Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke may turn on how many inactive voters Democrats can get to the polls. Last month I visited their Dallas headquarters, a bare-bones office in a strip mall off an expressway. The day I arrived, about 80 people in blue T-shirts sat in chairs, listening to a pep talk before heading out to knock on doors. “We’re knocking on doors of people that look just like us,” a man told the group. They are but one piece of a much larger project that aims to reach 72,000 doors in Dallas County before the midterm election, in order to turn out 26,000 infrequent voters.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2018 21:58 UTC