Eddie's door-knocking rule: just listen
Eddie Andrews answers with his experience knocking on doors as a candidate: he just listens, and people who only heard the words 'conservative' or 'Republican candidate' unload for fifteen or twenty minutes. He says some then tell him they might vote for him simply because he listened without being rude. A host adds that ministry is the best on-the-job training for public office because it teaches listening and discerning the real problem.
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