what's it like to work on a political campaign?

Question

does anyone have personal experience, anything from volunteering to paid work, at any level. I'm interested in politics, but uncertain about doing it for a living.

Answer 1

it's fun. i love politics. it's in my blood.

patraeus says he doesn't know if the war in iraq is making us safer. he seems to disagree with bush on that.

Answer 2

I havn't but you may enjoy this book written by Hunter S. Thompson when he covered the McGovern campaign.. Its caleld fear and loathing on the campaign trail. Its hard to tell where reality ends and his fantasy takes over because the people and system he writes about are so insane....

http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Loathing-Campaign-Hunter-Thompson/dp/0446313645

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_on_the_Campaign_Trail_'72

Heres an excerpt

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

* If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

Answer 3

When you work on a political campaign, you call people and tell them things to promote a certain candidate's ideas. Information flows through you, for the purpose of achieving a specific result.

It's a lot like being the nozzle on an enema.

Answer 4

I worked on one of the Congress women from Florida and it was fun. It was volunteer, but you get to meet so many people. I enjoyed it.

Answer 5

I volunteered for John Kerry's campaign. Its high-energy!

Answer 6

They do things like set up computer programs to call all the residents of a region which is strongly affiliated toward their party, and prompt voting for certain candidates. I have been getting calls for several weeks now supporting Democrats. Some of them even have offers to help me get to the polls and to help me vote. That people of this caliber, who are essentially too stupid or otherwise incapable of voting are key consitituents of the Democrats is old news to anyone lucid of course.

Answer 7

Fun!!!!!!!!!!!
Ask Monica & Mary Jo.

Oops....... Ted Kennedy drowned pregnant Mary Jo.
That wasn't so much fun, eh???
(Sorry about that.)