I also went on road trips with volunteers to different cities, where I assisted in training college students to conduct mock elections so they could identify Reagan supporters among students who were largely apathetic about politics. With Reagan winning the school elections, and the results getting coverage in the local press, the impression would be that the youth of America was behind him. It was an intriguing sleight-of-hand that clued me in to the importance of appearances, of controlling the narrative in a way my father had perfected.
