She also told me that the first five minutes of any doorstep conversation with a potentialvoter was taken up with listening to how angry people were about expenses.
When the council campaign got under way, the Sinn Fein candidate Conor Maskey confessed to blasting a football straight into the face of the young son of a potentialvoter.
And their permanence allowed the campaign to develop vital local insight: to build detailed voter files on potential supporters, field test the best ways to motivate them, and push them to cast their votes weeks before Election Day.
