There is a very small pool of engineers who work full-time in politics because it is a small and highly cyclical industry with extraordinarily small margins. I

There is a very small pool of engineers who work full-time in politics because it is a small and highly cyclical industry with extraordinarily small margins. I have personally worked with many competing campaigns and nearly all vendors in the space do. Many organizations grapple with these conflicts of interest in and outside of politics, and do so successfully. From my perspective, it is quite paranoid.