Published on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 12:00am
There is no place quieter or more forlorn than the losing candidate’s headquarters the morning after election night. If the phone rings, it’s a that it is either one more unpaid creditor looking for payment or a wrong number. Gone are yesterday’s hopes for the upset win to confound the pollsters and the pundits. If you know or run into any staffer from a losing campaign, take a little extra time to offer her some attention and a little encouragement. Too often, as the wonderful sports novelist John R. Tunis wisely wrote, “Losing is the great American sin.”