Millions in outside cash, volunteers swarm Michigan to tap voters

They started with roleplaying and a prayer circle before a group of about a dozen people hit the streets in Detroit to knock on doors and find the people who are classified as “infrequent voters.”

Their mission: convince those voters that casting ballots on Tuesday and again in November can affect the issues that concern them most — high auto insurance rates, water shutoffs and blight in their neighborhoods.

“You know, you usually see politicians coming around telling us what we want to hear. They offer to build you a cement pond and they never build it,” canvasser Duane Clark, of Detroit, said in rehearsing the opening line he often uses when talking with voters.

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