Well, the conventions are over, and the highlights seemed to be Paul Ryan's speech for the Republicans and Bill Clinton's speech for the Democrats. The fact-checkers sliced and diced Mr Ryan (Ezra Klein wrote an article about trying to find the one true thing he said), which is not a surprise since the economists have been doing the same since the middle of 2010, before anyone even knew who he was.
Enter Bill Clinton just a few nights later. His speech was extremely well researched and well stated. Except for a little nitpicking, he generally got a 'true' rating for the speech overall.
Thing is, Clinton's speech made me feel very informed because he didn't say anything I didn't already know. He was just repeating all the stuff I've been learning about for the past few years, and now he's gone and put it all out there in the mainstream.
So now I don't have anything to say.
Hm.
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