persuadable?

I phone banked on Sat­ur­day for Har­ris. I had tech is­sues – which seems about right – and it was my first time so I end­ed up only mak­ing 6 or 7 calls. 

One guy I spoke with for maybe 10 min­utes or more. Nice guy. Didn’t like Trump but was lean­ing his way. 

He was po­lite and seemed open to dif­fer­ent opin­ions. He watched the Oprah in­ter­view where he thought Har­ris dodged ques­tions and answers. 

He said he thought there were no school shoot­ings dur­ing Trump’s term. Eas­i­ly proven wrong with a Google search. 

He said be­cause Harris’s fa­ther was a pro­fes­sor, she was ly­ing about be­ing mid­dle class. 

He didn’t think Har­ris could hold her own against world leaders. 

He want­ed a pol­i­cy or two that Har­ris holds that would help his family. 

I asked him why he thought Putin would lis­ten to Trump. 

He men­tioned gro­cery prices. 

We end­ed it thank­ing each oth­er but I have thought about the con­ver­sa­tion since. Run­ning it through my mind. 

If I spoke with him again (I will not – it doesn’t work that way), I would ask what specif­i­cal­ly will Trump do to low­er prices? What would Trump say to world lead­ers that would stop them from at­tack­ing Ukraine or re­ject peace talks in Israel? 

How would Trump im­prove people’s lives??

This guy was prob­a­bly open to chang­ing, but still seemed resistant. 

He would prob­a­bly vote for Trump even though he doesn’t like him.

 

—lar­ry peters

Flom­mist Lar­ry Pe­ters is a Port­land-based mu­si­cian, writer, sales­man, and over­all trou­ble­mak­er with twen­ty years of ad­ver­tis­ing, news­pa­pers and pub­li­ca­tions, decades of play­ing and per­form­ing mu­sic, and a life­long af­flic­tion of think­ing he has some­thing in­ter­est­ing to say. Copy­right © 2024 Lar­ry Peters.

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