While the internet helps with that research, you really have to go out and experience regular daily life for a while to get enough local knowledge to sound like a local.
If you win, you get on the political gravy train; once you get into office, you’ll always be able to get some kind of related job once you’re out of office...
Nobody can argue that things are bright and sunny for radio going forward, but there’s still a business in creating audio content, whatever the medium.
Borrell Associates projects that figure will climb considerably over the next four years as the industry undergoes what it describes as a "great reshuffling."