If you're an old pro you know how well you're doing when you're doing it and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems it could well...
I don't like political poetry and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that I think it is missing the point of the American tradition which is always apolitical even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.