"I can't believe I'm out here caping for a politician," she joked, using a term for promoting someone, after hitting a few dozen houses on Election Day. Several canvassers, some of them bedecked in DSA T-shirts, had met in her Point Breeze living room and spread out across the city. Over and over, standing on doorsteps, she repeated the same themes: Yeah, I don't like politicians either. Yes, the system is broken. But you can, at least, vote for someone who might make things better.