Telephone Canvassing

Surprisingly, my first experience of telephone canvassing hasn't been half as bad as I expected. We only contact people who aren't signed up to the TPS (unlike Labour and the Tories), so that may have had somethign to do with it. No-one put the phone down on me, and most people were polite, with the exception of the following conversation:

"Good evening, I'm calling on behalf of Jill Hope, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Harborough. Will you be supporting her in the forthcoming General Election?"

"I don't support you bloody lot usually, and definitely not now you've phoned in the middle of the football!"

"My apologies sir - thanks you for your time!"

Funnilly enough, he went down as an anti!

My overall impression gained so far is that what Labour vote there is here is soft. Often the answer on the "who will you vote for" question was "Definitely not that Blair!" There are an awful lot of undecideds, too. And as the Tories seem pretty up front about admitting it, I think many of them are genuine undecideds.

All still to play for in Harborough it seems ...