The room was warm, with a deep-red carpet as the base and several camel-hair rugs that looked extremely expensive.
The gentlemen of the upper class wore high-end formal suits. Even the way they spoke and carried themselves exuded the distinctive style of the upper class.
Even their topic was thoroughly upper class, having to do with the state election.
"Old Joe has a very good chance in Orlant State. The party invested heavily there this time. Hicks's loss was completely unnecessary. He wasted a great deal of our resources..."
This was a group of Conservative Party politicians. Hicks's sudden withdrawal had indeed put the Conservative Party at a disadvantage in its efforts to expand its political territory. Now, aside from consolidating its stronghold, the Conservative Party had also found a new target among the swing states.
The resources originally meant for Hicks had all been redirected to this Governor Candidate named "Old Joe."
Old Joe was fairly well-known within the Conservative Party. Before this, he had been a senator in Congress for eight years.
He had his own reasons for stepping down from his position as senator to run for governor. He was not too old yet—only sixty—and that age was considered just right for Federal politicians.
He wanted to serve two terms as governor, take a break, and then try running for president.
By then, he would be only sixty-six, and being a governor was an advantage in a presidential campaign.
The thinking of many people was that if one could manage a state well, one could manage a country well. At the very least, one needed experience governing a region.
If someone who had never served even a single day as a mayor, governor, or any other official in charge of a region could become president, then God