Let's say that you're David Perdue, and the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has just publicly acknowledged that your race isn't going as well as hoped.
("I think we're gonna get there, we still have 20 days, and like I said, I don't want to sound like we're down and we're desperate," NRSC head Rob Collins told RollCall. "We're up. It's just we want to win this and put our candidate in a position to either win in November" or in a runoff.)
Let's also say that the most recent SurveyUSA poll has you down by three points in a race the GOP supposedly couldn't lose, with the pollster attributing your deficit to the fact that you led your opponent by 28 points among independents in August, but now lead that group by just six. Among moderates, your opponent's 22-point lead has mushroomed to a 32-point lead in just the past week.
And just for kicks, let's just say that your opponent has been trying to cast you as a hyperpartisan more interested in picking fights than in getting things done in Washington.
What do you do?
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