See, this is why I gave you grief about running: methinks thou doth protest too much.

Your course of action is exactly what a good leader should do in such a situation. I had a good idea who my constituency was before and after I ran. So on any subject where I was not up to speed, I read their thoughts on it, and acted accordingly.

Many will call this a populist approach, and some will do so in derogatory fashion, but really-- isn't that what representation is?

Of course, there are those times when being a leader means acting on expertise that your constituency lacks or subjects they don't understand, but that's a different matter.