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Canvasser

noun

A petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes. Synonym: solicitor.

Someone who examines votes at an election. Synonym: scrutineer.

Someone who conducts surveys of public opinion. Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster. "A headcounter counts heads"

A person who takes or counts votes.

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"Canvasser" Quotes from Famous Books

... province; and there he ruled without a rival. But he extended his care over the Whig interest in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Wiltshire. Sometimes twenty, sometimes thirty, members of Parliament were named by him. As a canvasser he was irresistible. He never forgot a face that he had once seen. Nay, in the towns in which he wished to establish an interest, he remembered, not only the voters, but their families. His opponents were confounded by the strength ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... down-hearted! you are too—too gentlemanly, De Stancy, in this matter—you are too soon put off—you should have a touch of the canvasser about you in approaching her; and not stick at things. You have my hearty invitation to travel with us all the way till we cross to England, and there will be heaps of opportunities as we wander on. I'll keep a slow pace ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... scale of all human employments is the art of canvassing for a sewing machine company. I did it for two weeks. My teacher taught me how to canvass a tenement. The janitor is the traditional arch enemy of the canvasser. My teaching consisted largely in how to avoid him, circumvent him, or exploit him. A Mrs. Smith—a mythical Mrs. Smith—always lived on the top floor. I was taught to interview her first; then I ...

— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... nor the last time that he acted in this capacity. The place had become his by a sort of prescription. His persuasive and convincing oratory was thought so useful to his party that every four years he was sent, in the character of electoral canvasser, to the remotest regions of the State to talk to the people in their own dialect, with their own habits of thought and feeling, in favor of the Whig candidate. The office had its especial charm for ...

— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay

... the part of host to these rural folks!" said George, with a secret envy. "Do observe how quietly he puts that shy young farmer at his ease, and now how kindly he deposits that lame old lady on the bench, and places the stool under her feet. What a canvasser he would be! and how young he still looks, and ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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