Supporters are calling to relate their concerns and ideas about certain Senate or House races, or the presidential race. I talked with a board member about the possibility of getting a major celebrity to go on the road to promote the environment and our campaigns. And I participated in a phone call with our California coordinator, Sue Burnside, and our media coordinator in D.C. for the California campaigns, Shalini Matani, to talk about our California Dirty Dozen events on Wednesday. Just as a marathoner knows how fast they should pace themselves so they can run a race in under three or four hours, a good campaigner knows how to set a pace that can last until Election Day. However, we always expect the unexpected as well.
Campaigns are by their very nature imperfect projects.
You can never go to bed at night thinking that everything is done. There's always that one more phone call, one more media call, one more fundraiser, one more ally to reach out to. It's an imperfect business. The worst feeling in the world is to think that there might have been something else that could have been done to achieve a win. You just hope that you do enough.