Two races

== Get an inside track on the mayor's race run.==
Running for the 42nd, the Jack Wagner's vacated state rep seat in dist 42? Should that be included on this wiki? The time lines of the state senate special election and the mayor's race will overlap at some point.
Let's put the campaigns in some perspective. The election for mayor is about 300 days away. Murphy got about 40,000 votes in 2001. For you to exceed Murphy's 2001 vote total, you will have to win over 133 people per day to vote for you. This is a daunting task, but one we will undertake to the best of our ability. Even if we fall short and only convince 133 people a week, that would be a major accomplishment. On a shoestring budget, it may not be possible to reach that many people by election day. With enough fundraising, you might be able to access big media such as radio and tv ads. But with libertarian-sized fundraising efforts, you may have to be content with yard signs, brochures and banner ads on local media and political web sites.
On another subject, here is an excerpt from the Badnarik campaign staff's post mortem on the badnarik for president campaign.
Badnarik Specific Problems
From the perspective of dealing with the media, the most significant
problems the communications team had to dal with were:
 
Badnarik holds no college degree
Badnarik was running for an executive position with no executive experience
Badnarik has no political wins under his belt 
Badnarik's income tax status. We buried a reasonable response (written by Barb Goushaw-Collins?) to this on te website, and never had a problem with the issue after this was completed.
Badnarik's previous comments about prisoner atrophy and blowing up the UN building. We generally played these off as jokes, but they did come back to haunt us from time to time.