Mark Halperin

Three asymmetrical advantages for Republicans.

Two they agreed on.

One, I'll break the tie and say Jeff Rose is right.

Republicans are better at using technology to get out the vote.

They're better on social media content.

They're better on podcasting.

Those are in the age in which we live.

If you have advantages in those areas on a campaign, big advantages.

That's why so many Republicans continue to believe that if they can get the president's approval rating up,

if they can improve voters' perceptions of the economy, having to do with politics, then their campaign apparatus

again, the whole red side of the thing, those are big advantages to have.

If you think about all the political content you've consumed, and many of you consume a lot of political content, just in the last couple months, you haven't read much about that, right?

Or heard much about that on TV or on podcasts or on YouTube.

It's just, for some reason, just as sports reporters tend to not ask the right questions of coaches and quarterbacks and other players,

For some reason, people in my profession, not everybody, there's some exceptions of folks I admire do it right, there's not a lot of coverage of campaigns

And campaigns are more determinative than politics about who wins and loses, who represents us, what the government ends up doing.

So I'll continue to cover campaigns and the mechanics of this stuff.

For some of you, maybe it's a little wonky.

Maybe it's too inside.

Maybe you don't want to see behind those curtains.