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n. - Persuasion of voters in a political campaign.

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  • The Museums Computer Group is interested in canvassing a wide range of views.
  • Congressman John Sweeney of New York also spoke and said that the -- he called the canvassing board the "thugs in that building."
  • She said service employees would also be engaged in canvassing, phone banking and voter registration activities across the country.
  • Remember, a day of canvassing is by no means a true scientific sample, but not a single voter we met said the war was his or her top priority.
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