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40. Did the party have a lot of resources to help him?

It seems to me that the party expects candidates to raise those resources. The party spent a fair amount of time and moeny trying to retain the seat in the 41st, but still lost that seat. The guy who ran for the 42 (and got creamed) was mad because he got no help, after, he says, party leaders begged him to run. The party probably had to triage.

With triage, there are three classes of people, because you have limited resources, you cannot help everybody, so you focus your resources.

1. those who don't need help, because they will survive on their own
2. those who are pretty much beyond help
3. those who can benefit from immediate help

For myself, I kinda took the Governor's race as a lost cause. The ones I thought we could win, most likely, were State Treasurer and Attorney General (and I was also deluded into thinking we had a chance at SOS. Heck, on election night I stopped at headquarters after I got done working and picked up the box of Steve Six signs, figuring we could use them again in four years for his re-election. I didn't know who won, but I thought surely Six would.

Heck, I myself figured that McKinney, Six and the 41st were in the first category. I put my own resources, besides the time I spent manning headquarters, into helping the candidate in the 42nd and also trying to win my county for Holland. I figured he would lose statewide, but might win our county. Hell, he got slaughtered in Leavenworth County.