Literature Drops: It's canvassing without some of the invasive baggage. On a pleasant weekend day when folks are out in the yard, there are some opportunities for direct contact, but the target remains in control of the interaction. Many folks find fliers on their doorknobs annoying, but certainly less than a knock on the door that interrupts dinner, a video or a phone conversation. Wouldn't an early-morning flier on a car windshield reminding a voter to vote engender less hostility than a dinnertime interruption?
Lit drops are worthless.
The data seems to be on your side. All I can say is that I had some excellent conversations with folks while doing lit drops in East Cleveland in '04, and I got almost nothing but hostility knocking on doors on Long Island in '07. Could be the radical differences between the cultures in those two communities too. Don't know if I actually did any good in either situation.
