We’ve learned by having real, in-depth conversations is that a broad swath of voters are actually open to changing their mind.
— Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer
Trainer, Organizer & Deep Canvasser
We’ve learned by having real, in-depth conversations is that a broad swath of voters are actually open to changing their mind.
— Dave Fleischer
Over the last 15 years, Fleischer's teams pioneered deep canvassing, a much more effective form of voter persuasion. His team at the Leadership LAB was the first to come up with the approach, and the first to have a randomized controlled trial (RCT) validate their effectiveness at changing voters’ minds in a large and lasting way. The RCT findings were so powerful that they were published in the trusted journal Science in 2016 (Broockman and Kalla, “Durably reducing transphobia: a field experiment on door-to-door canvassing,” Science, 352(6282): 220-224).
In 2020, Fleischer established and directed an independent expenditure super PAC focused entirely on campaigning directly against Trump in Philadelphia in both 2020 and 2024. The PAC allows Fleischer to teach deep canvassing to both partisan and non-partisan groups around the country, which is what he is currently doing.
Public attention for Fleischer’s voter persuasion work includes his TEDx talk on how to change voters’ minds and reduce prejudice. His writing demystifying deep canvassing is posted online at https://davefleischer.Substack.com.
