[EDITORIAL - Cris Alarcon]
Like a good footrace: (I used to run marathon but a good start always gives advantage, even in the log runs)
1) You run the course, in your mind, hundreds of times, over and over, and then more... If you can pre-run the course as practice, better. Have run that course in competition before? You have even greater advantage;
2) In advance, strategize the best route including how to outmaneuver the other runners;
3) As the "Official" starting time approaches you walk up to the Blocks, in a full sweat and your heart racing - You have been "starting" this race in many ways already so you are already sweating...;
4) You load into the Blocks, testing your traction, moving to adjust here and there, bunching up those well-practiced muscles, and when the deadline comes (starting gun fires) you EXPLODE off the blocks into a full out RUN, immediately;
5) Then you RUN as fast as you can, as far as you can, as long as you can, and without any break until that last vote is cast!
If you have run in a footrace, a political race, or even opened your own enterprise, you know this is how a good start is made. A good start is a Head start and that can be of GREAT importance.
If you see that your candidate is off to a poor start, it will be a very hard race for that candidate as they have ground to make up, and a very short time to do it.
And that is why every political campaign is a political Race. And why those in it are, Running all of the time.
Hat Tip to those that RUN this kind of race. It is arduous in ways most will never know.
On your Marks...
Get Ready...
RUN for elected office!
Cris Alarcon, in a New Year.
