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Sure but you've got to have some degrees for the cute girls.  I mean, I know you know what engineering classes look like...

I was actually quite shocked at how many hotties were in the civil department.

BTW, high school football starts tonight in the Columbus area. I absolutely love hearing the drums in the distance while sitting on my porch. 

A lady on FB posted about how great the speech Obama gave was.  i asked her for one thing in it she thought was particularly good, and she responded "Hope.".

OK, then.  Hope.  Some politician gave a speech about hope, and maybe zoning (though I couldn't find that in the transcript I scanned).

How many speeches in history have had some lingering impact?  Even the Gettysburg Address was largely panned at the time, in part for being too short (which I'd view as a plus).  I think the Churchill speech in the HoC had impact.  I'd opine 99.99% do squat, maybe a very brief "Wow, great speech!" comment by partisans, and a week later they couldn't tell you anything about it.

Sound and fury ...

Conventions are to gin up the base, and get the powers that be together to sort out who is going to gran that Ambassadorship to Peru et al.  A President makes over 4,000 appointments, I've read, nearly all of which are PLUM assignments, worth donating however much money one can manage to snare one.  Secretary of Commerce?  Assistant Secretary?  Assistant to the assistant associate Secretary of Homeland?  Brigadier general?

All the judgeship positions?  Not just SCOTUS, but all the myriad others.

I'm no fan of Joy Reid either, but downballot Florida has the potential to be a major Republican liability.

The reason: Abortion protection and state legalization of marijuana are on the ballot. It would be a blockbuster upset if either measure got to 60%+1 and passed, but if those margins end up anywhere near passage that becomes a major Republican problem. Probably not for Trump, but further down the slate? Yup. This is also the reason why Florida is the only place on this US Senate map for Democrats to go on the offensive.

Look at 2022 in Michigan as an example. In 2022, Michigan's abortion protection referendum passed 56-44. The Michigan GOP lost all statewide elections, both chambers of the Legislature for the first time since the mid-80s, and was left broke and awash in infighting.

And this is hardly the only state-level Republican problem that hasn't gone away over the last 30 days.

I am voting yes on the marijuana passage. Hate the stuff.  But it helps a lot of people.  
I am also pro choice.  But neither of those 2 issues impact how I judge and vote for individual candidates- because they are not the leading issues.  

Inflation, economy, how we handle immigration, and crime.   

I mirror most voters on what the top issues are, per every poll I have seen. 

The difference is- I will actually vote on the issues, not the media, memes, fear, bluster, etc.    and on all of those issues, I could not support a single Dem on the ticket.  

I think the idea is that both issues will trend heavier to drive voter turnout for voters who REALLY care about those issues, and that there is enough of a correlation between opinion on those issues and party affiliation that it'll boost D turnout more than R turnout, giving a boost to the Ds.

Much like in 2004 there was a concerted R strategy to get gay marriage initiatives on the ballot in many states, thinking that the people who were REALLY against gay marriage would be highly motivated to make it to the polls, and that the turnout advantage would help the Rs. 

Pretty sure offering a girl a block of cheese and a lager will get most of them in Wisconsin asking for sausage.

Worked for me.

There is a quite large HS stadium about a mile from me and I can hear their drums a bit.

The stadium was used as a training site for athletes during the 1996 Olympic Games, and occasionally hosts public practices for the Atlanta Falcons. Henderson Stadium was designed by Richard Aeck, and is considered a masterpiece of modern engineering expression.[1] For the fall of 2009, Henderson Stadium was closed due to renovation. All games were played at Lakewood Stadium and the Georgia Dome.