Bird-dog Training

Want to learn to bird-dog the candidates like a pro?  

The term "bird-dog" comes from hunting; the bird-dog's job is to flush the birds out of the bushes and into the open. Politicians are like the birds--they try to keep their positions hidden behind vague rhetoric. Using tightly crafted questions, the successful bird-dog forces candidates to reveal their position on an issue.

Learn how to ask questions on issues of importance to the candidates who are visiting our towns!

Open Democracy Action, American Friends Service Committee-NH, and NH Peace Action are hosting this training designed to explain how to strategically follow and quiz candidates about significant issues. With incomparable access to presidential candidates and the media who follow them, New Hampshire’s citizen “bird-dog” can shift the political tides of the nation. We show up at candidate appearances with honed questions that both educate onlookers and the media, and elicit informative answers from the targeted candidate.