Our Whole Strategy Right Now Is Convincing Voters Our Candidate Is Boring, and I Have Spent Six Years in This Business Never Once Expecting That to Be the Actual Pitch
I Spent Four Hours Today in a Room Full of Volunteers Making Cold Calls, and I Left With a Considerably More Complicated Picture of What Voters Actually Want Than Any Poll Has Given Me This Entire Cycle
Our Opponent’s Campaign Sent Out a Mailer Today Using a Genuinely Misleading Statistic, and I Spent the Afternoon Debating Internally Whether to Fire Back the Same Way or Actually Hold a Higher Standard
The Redistricting Fight in a Neighboring State Has Genuinely Nothing to Do With Our Own Race, and I Still Spent the Entire Day Fielding Questions About It From Voters Who Are Clearly Confused
I Watched a Volunteer Who Has Never Done Political Work Before Convince a Genuinely Undecided Voter Today Using an Argument I Would Never Have Thought to Make Myself