"Have you been with the President recently?"
Once certain things became commonplace, voices that should have been full of emotion also grew flat.
Sitting before the vanity and looking at herself in the mirror, Mrs. Chris had been planning to touch up her makeup a little before dinner. Through the mirror's reflection, she looked at her husband. "Not recently. What's wrong?"
Without waiting for her husband to answer, she continued staring at herself in the mirror and began touching up her makeup as she said directly, "I already mentioned your matter to him. He said he'd have to wait until after his reelection."
"He can kick out some of the people his supporters forced into place. That'll leave more positions to arrange for his own people. When the time comes, he'll give you a decent position."
"I don't understand much about this either, but at most, it'll only take another year."
This was the third year since the President had won the election, and the New Year was already just around the corner.
Next year would be his fourth year, as well as an election year.
Based on his current level of public support, there was basically nothing standing in the way of the President's reelection.
If he had needed to rely on more capital and outside forces to win the first time, then during his reelection, with sufficient public support, he would no longer need so many supporters.
A few core supporters would be enough to guarantee his reelection.
The advantage of doing this was that he could transfer out all the people his first batch of supporters had forced into office, replacing them with true "insiders" or people brought in through other arrangements.
This was a political reward. Why did the Federal President often seem so foolish during