On a quiet weekday morning at John Maginnis’ home office a few months ago came a knock at the door and, with it, the columnist’s first personal contact with the great non-campaign of 2011. “It was a college-student volunteer for Gov. Bobby Jindal, canvassing the neighborhood to spread the good word and to ask if the governor can count on my support and, also, if I wanted to volunteer for his campaign or just write him a check,” Maginnis says. “Thoroughly canvassed, I thought nothing more of the encounter, until a few weeks later came another knock on the door from another of the governor’s young campaign workers, trolling for votes, volunteers, checks. The Mormons have nothing on the Friends of Bobby Jindal.” The visits got Maginnis thinking about door-to-door canvassing, and how it “is often the first taste of politics for those who will go on to practice the art themselves. Or to manage campaigns. Or to write about them.” Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
