Interesting thing happened to me last night. I ate late on the way to the airport to pick up my wife, and sat at the end of the sushi bar at a Japanese place. There was an empty space next to me, then what was clearly a group of four sitting two on each side of the corner. As I was sitting there overhearing snippets of conversation, I came to realize these were election operatives, and I’m pretty sure they had worked for a failed Dem campaign for state rep one county over.
Their conversation was quite interesting. For one, I don’t think many Republican campaigns for state rep here have the sort of horsepower this group represented. For another, their attempts to noodle out what had just happened with Trump, and what it all meant, were engrossing. One guy brought up the idea of peeling off the non-Evangelical vote, and the other told him that after Trump, that whole model was dead. There was also the comment made that they think there will be a recession, since things have been going so swimmingly for the last 7 years, and it can’t go on forever, and that will make him vulnerable on reelection. It was all I could do to not laugh out loud at that one. I’m old enough and business savvy enough to know what a good recession recovery looks like.
The point to this being that they didn’t sound like they were going anywhere, and they seemed like some fairly sharp operators. So the election is over - and we better all get to work on the next election.
Good points; one advantage that they have is the constant infusion of taxpayer funds (through teachers’ unions, for example) in their coffers (so they can field more full-time operators than us). Too many of us are working real jobs to focus so much time/energy on perpetually campaigning...