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"FacebookPinterest\n\nStill trying to wrap your head around that 18-month, six-billion dollar campaign? Not quite sure what to make of Tuesday's results? Not to worry: for the next few days we'll be surveying the best and brightest in politics and punditry to help you make sense of it all.\n\nWith Rob Zerban, Paul Ryan's Democratic congressional opponent.\n\n\n\nGQ: What the f*ck did we just do for the last year?\n\nRZ: Well, we certainly kept a lot of people employed, consultants and political operatives. We stimulated the economy with six billion dollars.\n\nGQ: What does the Republican party need to do now?\n\nRZ: Wow, that's a really good question. I was going to say they've already been lobotomized, so come back with a new plan that doesn't throw senior citizens under the bus and take away rights from women.\n\nGQ: What does the president need to do in his second term?\n\nRZ: Well, I think he needs to continue to build on the successes that he had in the first four years. The Affordable Care Act was good step in right direction of providing more Americans with health care and to continue to move the country forward. I think working on some grand plan with speaker John Boehner to make sure that we walk ourselves back from the fiscal cliff and build the majority in the midterm elections with Democrats. It'd be great to see campaign finance reform. We spend too much money and those resources can be better used in so many better ways. We should, I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.\n\nGQ: What's the lesson you're taking away from this election?\n\nRZ: The big lesson I'm taking away from this election is that I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.\n\nGQ: What is the most astonishing thing about the race to you?\n\nRZ: You know I have told people this, but this process of running a congressional race, and this one's a really honest answer, I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen. And that's the great side, so many people, so encouraging and so optimistic and there's this hope we can move together forward, move the country together. The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty. That was the most interesting aspect of it for me.\n\nGQ: Give us one song that sums up your feelings about the end of the campaign.\n\nRZ: Elton John, \"I'm Still Standing.\"\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012\n\n[WTF Did We Just Do, Ezra Klein?\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/11/the-gqa-wtf-did-we-just-do-with-the-washington-posts-ezra-klein.html)\n\n The Empowerment Campaign and its Dividends\n\nWho Won 2012? Women. Sorry Guys.\n\nA Mile High, and a Mile Short\n\nFollow Marin Cogan on Twitter for more updates from the political scene in Washington and on the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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