Reflection On The Campaign Of A Candidate

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The Campaign of a Candidate 101 Working for our Community, who can bring it, Madison Nguyen is the slogan and chant that continues to ring in my ear, even when I go home after a difficult day of trying to support a local candidate. It has gone to the point where I dread hearing these very words because it is in every community rally and charity event that I have attended for the past three months. Ever since, I begun working on the campaign for Madison Nguyen, who is running for State AssemblyWomen in the city of San Jose. However, this job is definitely one of the few jobs that I definitely underestimated. Personally, I thought that by working in a campaign it would be like the movie The Candidate or looking into a computer screen for which districts have voted either for liberal or conservative candidates in the past four years.
However, instead I have come to find that it is nothing that I had imagined, but that it consists of the following: Canvassing through neighborhoods (door-by-door), making phone calls to voters, attending charity events, and dealing with bossy, know-it-all campaign managers that think they have the upper-hand. Which in my perspective, drives me completely insane, but then I remember to take a deep breath and tell myself “don’t do anything because it is not worth getting fired,” then I resume back to making campaign posters that would appeal to the public. I continue to ask, while making these posters, “how do posters like these appeal to voters?” And why? Is it the slogan? Or the smiley candidate themselves? But how should I know? I’m just there for the paycheck and some may say too “naive” to understand politics. I have found myself sometimes divided with the morals of what I have to do and what I should do. However, I have found myself asking questions about everything, I have seen and heard since working in a campaign. Whether it would be witnessing debates regarding the safety of the city to attending simple charity events for a noble cause that I slowly began to realize the real face of politics. Which is that all candidates, regardless of their political party all have to put on a theatrical show into getting as much votes as they can. Which reminds me of a play that I had read like over two years ago, called Farragut North written by Beau Willimon. Sometimes while I’m working I find myself comparing the littlest things to the book and trying to tie it all back to what the democratic process really is. And how it affects citizens. One example to demonstrate this, is when I conduct pollings on a computer which consist of the following: One, just making some sort of chart to tally down how many people over the years have voted and two what policies are individuals more for (being from gun control to abortion). Then, right next to my desk I eavesdrop on a conversation occurring between two co-workers and what they talk about is a “bet” on the democratic presidential candidates. Tony says. “I bet you fifty-dollars that Hillary Clinton will be the next presidential candidate.” Jason scoffs and replies. “I bet you sixty-dollars that Bernie Sanders will be the candidate. Feel the Bern, Tony.” For about the next ten to fifteen minutes they continue to exchange bets to the point where I felt a headache occurring and reminding myself I have two more hours to endure this, just suck it up, and stride forward. Every Friday and Saturday of every week for the past two months at eleven to two o’clock in afternoon, I have found myself having to walk door-to-door, with a clipboard and pen, in
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Due to the fact that, I have no seniority. 2.) I must learn to respect people with higher authority. 3.)When I hear something I don’t like. I must ignore it. Before entering into campaigns these were difficult for me to follow because I always voiced my opinion and did not care what others had to say. However, this changed over time because the conversations that I continuously overhear are mindless, narrow, and pointless. There is no right or wrong answer, as long as an individual can support their stance, but what should I know? I know nothing about local

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