Mark Halperin

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.

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