and i'm paying attention to dan rogerson's campaign. twinkle in his eye, and he sidles up to me. he says, "it's close." i said, "they're all close. they're all looking good." he goes, "no, your election's close." "how close?" "40, 50 votes." "oof... "but i'm losing, yeah? it's okay, i'm losing." "no, you're winning." and i'm thinking, "do i want this? "am i good enough for this? the other candidate's good, too." later, george comes back and said it was so close, there's a recount. huh... i should say, days after the election are surreal. you're exhausted. you've done 16- to 18-hour days. and you're now saying thank you to all the voters. you're saying thank you to the volunteers. you're cleaning up the signs. you're doing the campaign finances. i went to cornwall to win 18 elections, and we won 17. and one of them we won by 48 votes. mine. so i'm staying in cornwall. i'm going to help those grannies. i'm going to solve their problems as much as i can. and so, for the next three years, i work as a politician in a beautiful place in cornw