It was Halloween in Johnston County, North Carolina, and Adon Bermudez-Bey, a canvasser dressed as Spider-Man, was knocking on yet another unanswered door.
For months he and his colleagues have been tramping across this battleground state, spreading the word about Democratic candidates. Yet, more often than not, the curtains twitched closed when they came down the drive.
On the tree-lined country lanes here, where yard signs supporting Kamala Harris or Donald Trump are interspersed with the occasional Confederate flag, many Democrats aren’t sold on their party’s candidate.
“A thing we see oftentimes it’s like, they’re Democrats but they’re also not voting for Democrats,” said Bermudez-Bey, 28, a regional field director for Down Home North Carolina, a civic organisation that works with low-income people in rural
