Politics is a tough business. Very often it is hard to figure out by very experienced people like myself. I am a Republican who lost reelection to the Hopkinton Town Council in the recent election. I have run every two years for the Hopkinton Town Council since 1992. It took me three tries to be elected to the Town Council. I lost two bids for town moderator before that. Yet I am certainly the most Republican in modern times on my Town Council.