fandomhigh | Political Campaigning (Thursday, April 20, 4th period)

Josh stopped his work on the Washington Post crossword puzzle as the class arrived. "Okay--last thing to talk about and then I'll let you break into groups and work on your final projects."

He pointed to the board where he had scrawled GOTV in huge letters. "Get out the vote," he said. "Because everything else you've done the rest of the campaign is absolutely pointless if they people you've convinced don't show up. By the time GOTV begins, you should know to the house where your voters live. You should know their names, if they need a babysitter for their kids to vote, if they need a ride to the polls. You should be able to print off a list of all of your voters and check them off as they go past your poll worker at their correct precincts. You should have absolutely nothing to do on Election Day but bug these people until your guy crosses their names off of the list. Call them. Knock on their doors. Do both at the same time. It's a fantastic system called 'knock and drag.' 'Have you voted yet? No? Let me give you a ride. Bring the kids, whatever.' Get. that. voter. to. the. polls."

Josh shrugged. "Otherwise it's game over. Every single vote counts--this has been made abundantly clear in recent years. The average winning Senate campaign raised and spent $6.5 million last cycle--it's stupid to waste that kind of money by not following through at the end."

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Wince. And yet? Still not the worst thing he'd dealt with that week.

"I was thinking it'd be a good idea if I keep my focus on the Morrison group for the final project," Angel said.

Josh looked up. "Logan and Elizabeth doing okay on their own, then?"

Angel flipped through a mental catalogue of plausible lies. "I think they'd do better without me."

"Huh," Josh said. "Any particular reason? Or do you think Morrison'll do better with the 'porn for everyone' concept?" He grinned. "I'd think that Logan'd be easier to convince on that than, say, Rory."

"Um," Angel rubbed the back of his neck. Plausible. Plausible and yet not totally truthful. "Um. Something's come up. Where, um, as a TA I think it's the responsibile thing to do."

There. What could go wrong with that?

"What kind of something?" Josh asked.

Ah. A request for details. Well Angel's fault for asking a stupid question like "What could possibly go wrong with that?"

"Um," lie with the truth, lie with the truth. God why was this so much easier when he didn't have the soul? "Because... there's... bias. On my part. Towards one of my team members. I guess you could call it... favoritism?"

"Bias, huh?" Josh laughed. "You've got a crush on Elizabeth or something?"

Angel opened his mouth to say no.

Then remembered what he'd have to say yes to if he was being honest.

"Yeah, yeah, I do," he said, acting as though he really hated to admit this. "It's - woo boy is this embarassing. But this is just between us, right? There's confidentiality?"

"Sure," Josh said. "I totally respect wanting to keep work and personal lives separate." He smiled. "Have fun working with the Morrison campaign."

Angel's shoulders sagged with relief. Finally, he was getting out of the Logan thing with minimal damage. "Thank you, sir. I appreciate it."

Josh waved it off. "Not a problem."

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