They were typical political analysis and commentary. Because I had made a choice, just as you have a choice, to own my story, to write it myself, in my own words. In those first two days after the special election, the analysts who were predicting my downfall considered it unthinkable that the Democratic-controlled legislature would even entertain working with what everyone assumed was now a lame-duck Republican governor. That I would be reelected in a landslide less than eight months later … that probably sounded like the plot of a science-fiction movie. It turned out to be a true story.
