Ready For Another Presidential Campaign? #262 By Hank Silverberg I wrote a novel in 2015 about a fictional political campaign. It has a complex plot about a female vice-president getting ready to challenge an aging president who has health issues. The story centers on the reporters covering the election campaign with some sidebar plot twists that include a terrorist, and dirty tricks. At the time I wrote it, I thought it was a pretty plausible story, far enough away from reality to make it a fun read without stretching things into bizarre territory. Then along came the 2016 presidential race, and by the time the novel was first published in 2017, the truth became stranger than my fiction. But I have hesitated to write a sequel because it could not compete with the unpredictable and destructive nature of real American politics right now. Let's look at it as if it were the plot to a novel. You have a former defeated president ...
