The Personal Touch
Davis says she relies on "door-knocking," coffees and other functions across the city to meet new people and garner votes.
"In Cambridge the best way you get votes under PR is through personal contact," she says.
Former mayor and current councillor Reeves repeated the Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill maxim, "All politics is local," adding that Cambridge politics is a one-on-one, incremental process.
"That's how you come to know your voters and your voters come to know you," Reeves says.
One by One
Geneva P. Malenfant, vice-president of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), one of Cambridge's political parties, sees two types of candidate. One type, like Maher or Toomey, gets support from neighborhoods; the other from community groups.
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