"Three Decades of Experience vs Three Days of Cramming"

I love interviewing strangers about politics, getting into their heads, coaxing quotes out of them. It's more fun when they're coming from a completely different direction than I am, but I always get a buzz out of the interaction, anyway.

Last night, I approached a half-dozen peopel at Spit Fire before and after the Veep debate, and then wrote the experience up for OfftheBus.

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( high & low expectations ... )