It’s not that Alex Moore thought that being marooned on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean would be easy. It’s just that he assumed he’d have some advantages going in.

Moore, a 27-year-old communications director for Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, is a former class president and high school baseball player who felt good about his gym routine. He was a lifeguard in his hometown of Evanston, Ill., and he’s spent most of the last seven years working in the helter-skelter world of Washington politics.

“Some would say [I’m] the complete package,” Moore joked recently, seated in the Rayburn courtyard several months removed from his stint as a contestant on season 49 of the CBS reality show “Survivor.” “When you think about it, the chaos that goes on here and how adaptabl

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