He realized that he was well-liked by the Junior class. He knew he could win the Presidency of the Student Government, based on being popular. He liked being liked. One of his classmates, a girl named Suzi, also liked him. She kept telling him that popularity didn’t matter much in the real world – only money did. The candidate, however, saw how the others popular students usually ran the table, and he said to her that being popular mattered above all else. But since Suzi said this to him, there was something about what she said that rang true, but it didn’t apply to this election. Maybe when he turned into a professional politician – then money mattered, but not at the stage he was in now.He wanted to be as popular as the jocks were. They had all of the pretty women. They were the most pop
