On the weekend, Conner held a barbecue party and invited several people to attend.
Lin Qi was among them.
This was Conner's fourth year in office, and the Midterm Election was only a few months away. However, there was hardly any electoral atmosphere surrounding this year's Midterm Election.
In the past, various publicity campaigns would have begun half a year in advance. Even with Conner's high approval ratings, some candidates would still have built momentum to make his reelection seem less certain.
This was a kind of...game, but not one between the president and the presidential candidates. It was a game between politicians and voters.
Just as politicians and capitalists were always telling the people that they were unhappy and had little money in their pockets because they were not working hard enough.
If they wanted to live a good life, they had to recognize their own laziness and work twice as hard.
Politicians themselves also had to show an attitude of "I am working and sacrificing for our shared ideals every moment of every day." They could not expect to do nothing and still have voters cast their ballots for them. That was unrealistic.
A presidential candidate who successfully "usurped" the presidency in a Midterm Election had less than a thirty-four percent chance of winning. That seemed like a lot, but in truth, the success rate was already frighteningly low.
Since most candidates knew they had little hope, why did they still spend money campaigning? Was it just to waste their supporters' Political Donations?
Of course, that was part of the reason. After all, campaign funds were also an important channel for transferring benefits.
More importantly, these politicians were expressing an attitude to the people: "I am fighting." At the same time, through this defeat, they accumulated some "popularity"