Interesting, thanks! Any thoughts on how we should think about the relative contributions and specialization level of these different authors? ie, a world of maximally important intangibles might be one where each author was responsible for tweaking a separate, important piece of the training process.
My rough guess is that it’s more like 2-5 subteams working on somewhat specialized things, with some teams being moderately more important and/or more specialized than others.
Does that framing make sense, and if so, yeah, what do you think?
People who worked on the campaign can speak to this better than I can, but I would give them more credit for doing reasonable due diligence. I have a strong expectation that:
There were lots of Democratic strategists involved
There were lots of attempts at polling / predicting the race
I also think there can be a meaningful difference between knowing on paper that “having connections in the district is important” and “spending money can help you win” and “having a voting record is helpful”, and seeing how those factors actually play out in practice. That said, I hope (and expect) that there was more “know-how” generated by the race than just the lessons reflected in this post.