I Spent a Day With the People Who Get Paid to Influence Your Vote

Jun 22, 2018

They have come to network, and nothing can stop them. Not the official schedule, which attempts to corral networking into hourly breaks. Not a show of indifference to their eager, outstretched hands. They have come from Philadelphia and California. They have come from Haiti and Brussels and Darwin, Australia. They can make a meet-cute from the most insignificant morsel of observation. How do you feel about your laptop privacy screen? someone genuinely asked me. “We’re going straight into the next session,” is the curfew call they dread.