PART 2 - THE CANDIDATE FIT the candidate meets the structure

Torus V3 · MI-10 · Christina Hines (D) · does the candidate fit what voters already believe?
Step 1 - The Context Store

Everything the system knows about the candidate

Screen 1 never mentioned a candidate - the READ is candidate-free by design. The context store adds one: Christina Hines, from public sources only. Her record, her positions (we call this her proposition set), and a live news read of the race - the outside forces pushing on voters that no campaign controls.

BIO & RECORD REAL - public sources
Warren native, Warren Woods public schools. U-M, Wayne State Law. Ten years a prosecutor - homicide and domestic violence in Wayne County, then Chief of the Special Victims Unit in Washtenaw. Working mom of three. Ran countywide for Macomb Prosecutor in 2024 - lost 57-43, and the system knows that too: name ID, proven fundraising, and a known loss margin are all context, including for the opposition.
PROPOSITION SET REAL - trunk-mapped
NEWS READ - THE OUTSIDE FORCES MODELED - curated snapshot
Cost of living remains the dominant salient force · coordination ruling reshaping spending patterns · Bouchard leads GOP primary with a majority undecided · Hines the only Democrat with a general-election lead in public polling. Forces are read, not controlled - they decide WHEN each message lands, not what it says.
Step 2 - Trunk Coverage

Ten seconds of table stakes

First check: do her positions cover what the district actually talks about? It does - and that is deliberately unimpressive. Any competent Democrat covers the topics. Topic coverage is where every other shop stops. It is where this system starts.

Economic security 27%✓ p1 p2 p3 p4 p8
Healthcare & eldercare 24%✓ p3 p5
Cultural & social 20%✓ p7 p9
Education 16%✓ p6
War & foreign affairs 13%△ p8 adjacent only - defense jobs, not policy

One honest gap shown, not hidden: she has no war-and-foreign-affairs position beyond defense manufacturing jobs. 13% of district conversation, thin coverage. The system reports it; a consultant would airbrush it.

Step 3 - The Stack Identity Reveal

The key and the lock

Here is what no poll can produce. Take real stack identities from the READ and lay the candidate against them - not topic against topic, but her specific record against specific layers, in the order the voter holds them. Persuasion only operates on moveable layers; the reveal shows exactly where her keys fit, where they partially fit, and where no key exists.

STACK B - essentials-childcare hierarchy · est. 26,000 in Younger Warren Families alone
1Cost of essentials MOVEABLE✓ DIRECT - p1, p2: her lead message
2Education & childcare MOVEABLE✓ DIRECT - p4, p6 + working mom of three
3Healthcare burden FIXED✓ AFFIRM - p3, p5: never challenge, always affirm
4Housing FIXEDno key - stay silent, do not improvise
STACK A - essentials-order hierarchy · est. 21,000 in the same archetype
1Cost of essentials MOVEABLE✓ DIRECT - p1, p2
2Law & order MOVEABLE△ PARTIAL - prosecutor record fits; party label fights it. BRIDGE: "10 years putting abusers away" - biography over party
3Government corruption FIXED△ TWO-SIDED - outsider vs establishment endorsements. Route: never claim purity, claim record
4Wages & jobs FIXED✓ AFFIRM - p8 union/manufacturing

Same candidate, same archetype, two different key-sets - and the honest entries matter most: the PARTIAL fits are where bridge narratives earn their keep, and "no key" is a real output that saves money and prevents self-inflicted wounds. Fit assessments MODELED v1; layer structure ILLUSTRATIVE of method pending panels.

Step 4 - The Creative Engine

Same cell, different game, different ask

Every ad is generated for one specific audience: the message comes from what that group believes (their stack identity), the ask comes from the job the ad has to do, and the timing comes from the news. Below - one cell (Younger Warren Families × stack B), two games, and the generated comps. Every piece a human approves, edits, or regenerates before anything flies.

SIMULATION - NOT CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
AD · SPONSORED
GROCERIES + CHILDCARE + RENT
Groceries up. Childcare up. Your paycheck - not so much.
Christina Hines is a Warren mom of three who knows the math doesn't work. Lower costs on essentials. Hold the price-gougers accountable.
See her plan
FOR CONGRESS · MI-10
PAID FOR BY FRIENDS OF CHRISTINA HINES · SIMULATED CREATIVE - NOT CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
DIGITAL DISPLAY AD · job: PERSUADE · speaks to stack B layers 1-2 · generated copy, comp layout
SIMULATION - NOT CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
AD · SPONSORED
VOTENOV 3
You already know what a fair shot costs. Vote like it.
Early voting is open. The neighbor who gets it is on the ballot - Warren born, three kids, ten years protecting families in court.
Make your plan to vote
FOR CONGRESS · MI-10
PAID FOR BY FRIENDS OF CHRISTINA HINES · SIMULATED CREATIVE - NOT CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
DIGITAL DISPLAY AD · job: TURN OUT · same group, different ask · generated copy, comp layout
SIMULATION - NOT CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
AD · MAIL
10 YEARSA PROSECUTOR0 years a politician
She put abusers behind bars. Imagine what she does to price-gougers.
Ten years a prosecutor. Zero years a politician. Christina Hines - for the people doing everything right and still falling behind.
Christina Hines for Congress
FOR CONGRESS · MI-10
PAID FOR BY FRIENDS OF CHRISTINA HINES · SIMULATED CREATIVE - NOT CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
MAIL PIECE - FRONT · job: PERSUADE THE TORN (stack A) · bridge: biography over party · generated copy, comp layout
HUMAN IN THE LOOP workflow
Deep dive: THE NARRATIVE ENGINE - how their story and our story become the ads
Every piece passes an approval queue before deployment - the operator approves, edits, or regenerates. Nothing flies unreviewed. At full scale this is 30-50 review decisions (one creative package per cell × game), not thousands.
✓ Approve✎ Edit↺ Regenerate✕ Reject
Step 5 - The Handoff

Keys cut. Now price the win.

The READ found the locks. FIT cut the keys - honestly, including the partial fits and the doors with no key at all. What remains is arithmetic: how many votes, from which squares, at what cost, in what order. That is Part 3 and the live Control Center - where all of this becomes a number that either reaches 50%+1 or does not.

Continue the story: Part 3 - The Price of Winning →