My old buds are making the mortgage, college and boat payments for the next few years over the course of the next few weeks.
And what are your old buds saying about this election...?
“And what are your old buds saying about this election...?”
“Those who speak don’t know, those who know don’t speak”, as Confucius said (maybe it was Lat Tzu).
That stuff is akin to the top secret marketing research done by Ford or Proctor and Gamble...
We would be focused on getting to the nitty gritty of which groups would vote for “our” candidate, regardless, and which groups would NEVER vote for our candidate no matter how much we spent. Identify those groups so you don’t spend an unnecessary dime on them, take the remainder and find out what media they consume, correlate that with likelihood of voting and cost of ad buys.... now you know how to spend precious dollars; believe me (and if you can’t trust an anonymous source on an internet discussion page who CAN you trust?) that data is guarded like any highly valuable data, you or I are not seeing it unless we are responsible for deploying resources!
The camps will release whatever numbers will either inspire people to vote or hopefully discourage people more likely to vote for the opponent to vote. The media will release whatever numbers will increase traffic... in no case the numbers ‘we’ see having anything to do with a result attained at great expense.
Boring and completely mercenary stuff. As to any ethos, more akin to a pilot who would strive to make the best landing possible regardless of their feelings for the candidate, or the surgeon who would of course do the best possible operation even if they would as soon the person they are operating on be hung immediately afterward :-)