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On the Democratic side, the campaign used hundreds of volunteers and paid canvassers, including some who drove from San Francisco and Los Angeles.

With its mountains and coastline, Donegal is a beautiful place to live in but its scale as a political constituency makes it a “canvasser's nightmare”, says Áine.

Nevada has attracted its fair share of canvassers from neighbouring California, where the Democrats are all but certain to win.

In addition to the presidential candidates’ omnipresence, voters in the state are bombarded by mailers, ads on television, radio and social media, and canvassers knocking on their doors.

And canvassers like me, the phalanx from 1199 SEIU, made sure that every voter we spoke to knew how to cast their votes early or by mail.