The public I am writing towards is a segment of the population that is dissatisfied with their congressional representatives. According to a Gallup poll conducted at the beginning of the 115th Congress, Americans’ approval of that legislative body is at 19%. Remarkably, according to CNN, federal legislators serve, on average, for over a decade. Counter intuition aside, there is a lopsided majority that is prepared to consume my message. I need to consider that having substantial leisure time to participate in the political process is not a privilege every American in that 81% can enjoy. My observation invokes the criticisms in the reading of the public sphere. Ideally (and naively) it is supposed to be an equitable, universally accessible, and egalitarian platform for discourse. So, whatever technique I use to appeal and some of the ways I invite the public to involve themselves in the campaign will need to consider their finite time. Having limited opportunities to attract the public to this campaign is conflicting with the best practice of kairos. The understanding I lifted from the reading is that kairos is a tactic of waiting for or manufacturing the ideal conditions in which a rhetor can most effectively persuade their audience. It was challenging for me to separate the concept of a physical public sphere to what it actually is, but I didn’t necessarily agree with the assessment that it isn’t a place. I thought about the Internet and the platforms for connecting members of the public sphere there, particularly blogs like Reddit, or quasi-blogs like Twitter and Facebook. In our speech we say that we are on them, but in our minds we are going to them. Not unlike coffee shops or other gathering places, they are distinct spaces that we can navigate, entering and exiting whenever we so choose.