Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places: Tales and Rules from the Campaign Trail

Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places: Tales and Rules from the Campaign Trail

by Rick Ridder
Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places: Tales and Rules from the Campaign Trail

Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places: Tales and Rules from the Campaign Trail

by Rick Ridder

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Overview

The veteran presidential campaign manager recounts his many adventures, travesties, triumphs, and lessons from more than forty years on the trail.
 
Over his long and legendary career, campaign strategist Rick Ridder has been at the center of everything from presidential death matches to the legalization of marijuana. In this lively memoir, he recounts his life on the trail from the McGovern campaign to more recent candidates and causes. Along the way, he reveals his “twenty-two rules of campaign management”―each one illustrated by entertaining, instructive, and mostly true stories from his own experiences.
 
Rick offers an unsparing, often hilarious self-portrait of the political guru as a young man, criss-crossing the country from one drafty campaign headquarters to the next, making mistakes and pulling rabbits out of hats, wrangling temperamental celebrities, winning some elections and losing others.
 
Through his stories, you’ll meet the state legislature candidate who said he’d win thanks to his reputation as a judge in cat competitions; the US Senate candidate who told the Southern press, “I hate southern accents”; a young Senator Al Gore who campaigned for President in 1988 by eating his way through New York City alongside Mayor Koch; Leonard Nimoy, good-naturedly trekking through rural Wisconsin in Rick’s own Jeep because Rick was too young to rent a more appropriate vehicle; and many other colorful characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781682307984
Publisher: Radius Book Group
Publication date: 11/19/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 951 KB

About the Author

Rick Ridder is President and Co-Founder of RBI Strategies and Research. A former presidential campaign manager, Rick has been an advisor on numerous campaigns from local initiatives to U.S. Congress and international heads of state.
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