Experience has shown that an excellent way to get in touch with presidential candidates is through a process known as
“bird-dogging”. The term comes from hunters’ use of bird dogs to flush out quail, pheasants, and other game birds.
(We’re not advocates of such hunting, but we accept the use of this term.) In election campaigns the bird dogs are
people who approach candidates at town meetings, in people’s homes and cafes, on courthouse square and Main Street
and ask them questions on public policy issues.
