Wang Lei pushed the bicycle and walked slowly on the street in a depressed mood.

The sunshine at noon in July is already very poisonous, but the road is surrounded by thick sycamore trees, and the canopy is wide, making the wide street avenue. Walking below, you can't feel the heat of the sun at all.

The crickets on the trees kept chirping, which made people feel upset.

This cement road is the main road in Braddock. It has been a history of decades. The road surface is still intact, but in some severely damaged places such as corners, the black cinder below has been exposed.

The sidewalks on both sides seem to be made of tiles, but in fact they are poured with concrete with pigments. The patterns imprinted with a template on them look exactly the same as those laid by tiles, and avoid the problems of loosening the bricks and water accumulation in the gaps.

Braddock has a long history and is becoming increasingly deserted, but it is not dilapidated. It was well laid during construction and maintained in place.

"Hua, aren't it strange that we are all young people. Instead, we hope that the town will remain the same and keep the tradition, but the adults don't agree with it. I hope to tear them down?" Wang Lei frowned and kicked a small stone on the road. He tried his best to cheer himself up again and did not want to give up easily.

Wang Hua walked on the narrow curb. In order to maintain balance, she opened her arms and kept shaking her body: "Who knows, I like this place anyway. If I want to go shopping and go to the playground, we can go to Pittsburgh!"

Wang Lei nodded and thoughtfully: "Maybe, we didn't want to stay here all the time. When we graduate from high school, we will go out to study in college, Pittsburgh, Boston, and then work outside. We hope that when we come back occasionally, we can still find memories of our past in the town."

He tried to analyze the situation: "So, Uncle Brady is right, the town is not our playground, nor is it a place where we nostalgia, it is the place where the people of the town live, we left, and there are still people who want to stay, this is their town, not ours."

Wang Lei patted the handlebars in annoyance: "So, they don't care about our ideas, or even object to them, oh, damn! It's so damn!"

Wang Lei was even more discouraged. He felt that he was just wishful thinking. What the residents of the town needed was not nostalgia or sports venues, but life. From their perspective, such a choice made sense, but not what he wanted to see.

"Oh, be careful, you almost bumped into me!" Wang Lei lowered his head and almost bumped into a pedestrian on the road. When the other party saw him, he immediately shouted: "Rex, I heard you are running for mayor?"

"Yes, Aunt Camilla, we want a library, a football field, we can't watch Hawke tear down the tradition of the town..." Wang Lei subconsciously began to promote his own philosophy. Camilla is Luca's mother, working as a cleaner in the town, she is very cheerful and has a loud voice.

Before Wang Lei finished speaking, Camilla had already raised the broom in his hand: "Stop, stop, Rex, do you know how many streets there are in Braddock, how long are the streets in total, how long does it take for us to clean these streets every day? Damn it, just for the library and stadium you mentioned, my salary has not been adjusted for three years, Oh my God!"

"Aunt Camilla... I know, I know that everyone wants to live a good life. I hope the town's economy is full of vitality and brings more job opportunities, but I think it has nothing to do with the library and the sports field. Demolition of them will not bring job opportunities." Wang Lei spread his hands and made a helpless expression.

Camilla knocked on the bicycle with a broom, and didn't seem to want to hear Wang Lei speak. She said loudly: "Rex, you don't know how much an egg costs. Go to college and come back after you graduate."

Wang Lei wanted to say something, but Camilla was already carrying a broom and turned to sweep the fallen leaves on the floor across the street. He had no choice but to shrugg and push the bicycle away.

According to the plan, Wang Lei should have continued to visit other people on the list, but he did not go. Brady, Donna, and Camilla's words made him a little discouraged. He always felt that something was wrong and he had to think clearly first.

If they face their problems and blame like before, and cannot come up with an effective solution and cannot convince the other party, facing the voters too early may only have a counter-effect. Because the first impression is very important.

He remembers a newspaper report once mentioned that voters usually decide whether to like a candidate within fourteen seconds. This is the first impression. Once the first impression is formed, it is difficult to change.

The first impression is the only chance, so he must be cautious.

He couldn't be self-righteous and thought that he thought he would get everyone's support if he thought he was good. Brady and others seemed to agree with it, and even some objections.

The teenagers are carefree and only want a venue for sports. The adults are thinking about how to live. Everyone has different demands. Now they have conflicts and it seems difficult to reconcile.

"I will not give up! I will never give up!" Wang Lei kept cheering himself up while reflecting.

He thought about it and decided to go to Alvin's house first to see how he collected information online, and then asked Wang Hua to go to another place to play first.

"Oh, Rex, I finally let me see you!" At the door of Alvin's house, Wang Lei met Luca, who twisted his butt exaggeratedly, and looked like he was about to faint: "This is really bad. None of them believed me, damn!"

Wang Lei suddenly felt a bad feeling: "Luca, what's going on?"

"I went to my mother, aunt, aunt and others as we discussed, you are going to run for the mayor, and you are going to reserve a library and a sports field for the town! Hi, do you know what their reaction is? They don't believe it, saying I'm lying, Oh, my god, how could I say panic?"

"I swear to swear, so that they believe that you will really run for mayor. But this is even worse. My aunt actually said that the sports field should have been removed long ago, and the glass window of her house was broken several times. Oh, she is really too selfish!" Luca talked about his experience with her hands and feet. He spoke very quickly, and was a little rapturous, and the content was very trivial and had no point. Wang Lei finally figured out what he was talking about.

Damn it! Why are they like this! Wang Lei was not surprised because the situation he encountered was similar, but he was also a little unwilling to accept it: "Luka, I understand! This is a huge challenge, waiting for us to conquer, come on, let's discuss together how to defeat prejudice and win."

Wang Lei hid the depression in his heart, and he couldn't let everyone be discouraged.

At Alvin's house, Wang Lei found Colin was also there. He was sitting on the floor, playing with a black Motorola flip mobile phone v998 in his hand. He looked up at Wang Lei, put down his phone and said, "I made a few calls to my grandfather, mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law, and my little nephew. I think this sample is very representative, the old man, middle-aged man, young man and children, men, and women. The result I got is..."

Colin shook his head: "They all think this is a joke. In other words, they don't think an eighteen-year-old middle school student can manage the town well."

"The ratio is 100%... This sample is very small, but..."

"But it's very representative, right?" Wang Lei interrupted Colin with a smile. The successive bad news made him calm down. He must not be discouraged at this time. He retreated when encountering difficulties. It was not his style.

He took the time to read the "Presidential Letter" and found that the disadvantage of the initial battle had a great impact on everyone, and everyone's position was a little regressed. Although it had the role of a halo and could still be maintained at the level of the peers, it was already in danger.

It seems that halo is not omnipotent. If you want to win the election and become president, your personal efforts are the most important.

The third-level supporters are fellows. They recognize your morality or opinions and are willing to stand on the same side as you, but they also have their own opinions and ideas. Everyone has the same status and has not yet recognized your leadership position. Only when they reach a higher level will this recognition appear and support will be stronger.

Now, the campaign plan has encountered setbacks at the beginning. Although everyone can still stand on the same side as Wang Lei, they have lost confidence and cannot see the hope of the campaign.

"Colin, you should know that in the sampling survey, the sample must be large enough to be representative, so the attitude of your family and relatives can only represent one group. Let's wait for Doug, Wang Yang, Emily and others to analyze the results together!" Wang Lei smiled. Judging from the current situation, it is difficult to have a better result. He can only prepare for himself a little more time, first stabilize Colin and Luka, then reflect, find a new breakthrough, and then find ways to inspire everyone's enthusiasm and confidence.

"Okay!" Colin nodded. Although he felt that the result would not be much deviation, he could understand Wang Lei's mood. Surprisingly, he did not argue and continued to lower his head and play with his phone.

"Alvin, how about it? Is there any information we need on the Internet?" Wang Lei walked behind Alvin. The latter had just returned to the computer and opened a folder, which was densely packed with various files.

Alvin used his mouse to stroke the screen: "There are a lot of news about elections on the Internet. I copied some of them. The Internet speed is a bit slow. There are only these for the time being, and I will continue to look for them."

Since the current Vice President Gore proposed the Information Highway Act, after nearly eight years of development, fiber optic broadband in the United States has gradually become popular. Pittsburgh and nearby areas have used broadband. Only Braddock has not yet connected, and Alvin also uses dial-up Internet access.

Obviously, Alvin already knew that the situation was not good, but he was still working conscientiously.

"Okay, very good! Thank you, Alvin, you pack the information and copy it into the floppy disk for me. I'll take it back to check it out," Wang Lei said to Alvin. He hoped that the information would help him.

Alvin nodded, took out two floppy disks from the file shelf next to the computer, inserted them into the computer floppy drive, and began to save files inside. The computer's host box suddenly made a crunching sound of reading disks.

Wang Lei said to Colin and Luca again: "Okay, everyone has worked hard in the morning. Let's go back to have a meal first. After dinner... do your business first, and then go to my place at three or four o'clock. Let's take a look at the whole situation and then decide what to do!"

I will never give up, I will never give up! Wang Lei kept saying to himself in his heart, I must find the problem, then solve them, and win the election.

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