One of the lesser-known duties of reporters assigned to the White House beat is to spend one day per month in the presidential pool. The pool is a rotating group of reporters who shadow the president whenever he makes a public appearance at the White House or in the Washington, DC area. When you’re up, you’re up — and you only get the details of which event you’ll be attending hours before it happens.
With the election just six days away, I was called up on Wednesday. And because pooling means a lot of time waiting around — for security checks, for the president and everyone else to ready themselves for a public appearance, and so on — I spent a good part of that day planning our election week strategy.
