The Government, and How It's Ran
             "To get ahead in life, you can learn a great deal from those who get ahead for a living...People are jockeying for position, all the while keeping an eye on the competition...There's a magnetism to this world of make-or-break."
             Explain how according to Christopher Matthews, the game of politics is played, who gets ahead and why. Include a variety of "players" in your discussion, presidents, members of Congress, aides, etc. Evaluate just how "magnetic" this world is. Do not write in first person.
             Imagine yourself going to Las Vegas. Just walking around the casino floor, hearing the coins, the dealers, smelling all the cigarettes around you, and just as you decide to try to put money in the machine, you've won the jackpot! From then on, you decide that by winning this jackpot, you will then take the easy way in life. You will let the money you just won run your life. In the book Hardball by Christopher Matthews, he pointed it out multiple times that "to get ahead in life, you can learn a great deal from those who get ahead for a living." By getting ahead in politics, you are just playing the game.
             According to the author of the book, the game is played by getting a head, meaning by being one step ahead of your opponent. Don't get mad, get even, is another point that the author of the book points out. To get mad will just let your reputation go in a different direction you'd want it to, but to get even in the most secretive way, would just make you ahead of the game. To have them run with you for office, side by side, would make you the bigger man for then, you have realize that by having your worst nightmare run by you, they then couldn't do anything to hurt your reputation, for them too will be hurt.
             "Lyndon Baines Johnson, the country boy from Texas, knew the importance of such hideaways. The first thi...