Mark Halperin

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.

But if you care about who's going to win the midterms, and we'll keep talking about that, and so many of you do, focus on campaigns.

at least as much or i would argue more than politics this is this is what has allowed me in my career to understand stuff and i can't tell you how few reporters even think this way and every time i talk to anybody who works in a campaign and i express the least bit of appreciation the least bit of understanding of these asymmetries they're all they're always very appreciative and

gives me a little bit more time with them because they want to be appreciated for what they do and what they're good at and what they're trying to excel and what they're trying to create these asymmetrical advantages in.

And for most of them, that's not politics.

That's campaigns.

All right, that's it for the day of reported monologue.