Note that my "down-ballot races" are judges (some of our lower courts are elected) and the internal to the political party stuff, including "male district leader" and "female district leader" (and yes, those are the official names of the positions, and there's one of each for each district).
My paternal grandmother's approach, for a long time, was to call my father and ask for advice; he knew about the races in her district as well as the borough-, city-, and state-wide races. (I'm not sure how much of that was being involved in local politics, and how much was making a point of checking into it for his mother.)
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Note that my "down-ballot races" are judges (some of our lower courts are elected) and the internal to the political party stuff, including "male district leader" and "female district leader" (and yes, those are the official names of the positions, and there's one of each for each district).
My paternal grandmother's approach, for a long time, was to call my father and ask for advice; he knew about the races in her district as well as the borough-, city-, and state-wide races. (I'm not sure how much of that was being involved in local politics, and how much was making a point of checking into it for his mother.)