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I'd wait a couple of years, they'll probably change their mind again.
Besides, the goal of campaigning is not to change someone's mind -- it is to win elections.
On the face of it, the goal of campaigning is to win elections by changing people's minds.
It may also help e.g. by encouraging The Base, but if it turns out that that's the main way it's effective then I bet there are more effective means to that goal than campaigning.
Incidentally, if anyone's having the same nagging feeling I did -- weren't Kalla and Broockman involved somehow in some sort of scandal where someone reported on an intense-canvassing experiment like that but it was all faked, or something? -- the answer is that they were "involved"... (read more)