The Democrats' convention deserves a good bump, it was well crafted and on message, and it had some killer speeches.

In anticipating the conventions I expected much more out of Trump. I thought that creating a television production might be a place where he had real experience. It was a pure delight to see what I thought was a significant difference in the overall quality of the showbiz. Well the speaker list of course, the quality of the videos, the music and entertainment.

That said, the bottom line for this old lady who voted for the first time 44 years ago - we have the best candidate and she is a woman. My estrogen is bubbling over with joy. I've always voted for the person I felt was the best choice and it is a big damn deal for me to have it be the woman this time around.

In non-political news, I finally remembered to go to the supermarket near my office to buy soda, and it is even cheaper than I realized! I've been paying $2 a pop (by which I mean each, not the wrong name for soda), and this was $4.50 for a six-pack! AND I got two plastic bags, because they still have them in Boston, unlike in Cambridge, where I do most of my shopping. So I can go to CVS after work, even though I forgot my reusable bag!

Everything is coming up Jesse.

Awesome news, Jesse!

I wasn't claiming Trump is affable and stays on message, just that it's not the qualities you'd think would make someone shine in a debate are the ones that end up mattering.

I also can't wait to hear who will be playing the role of Trump in Hillary's debate prep. I know that's horrifically dorky, but I really want to know.

First ace is that Hillary has an actual campaign operation.

Yeah, her operation is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than what Trump faced from any of his Republican opponents.

Someone on Twitter pointed out that Trump noped out of the debates as soon as it got down to three or four people, so he doesn't really have an experience with that.

That's true. I hadn't thought of that.

It's been a really crappy week. I don't wanna work, I just want to tweet lines from Hamilton all day.

Trump has the disadvantage of debating a woman.

He's such a mysognist and I have to assume it's got to eat at him some that he has to go up against a woman. Either that or he'll be even more over confident.

But what little I saw of him at the DNC he managed to stay on point for 2 sentences before rambling or at least not able to stay modulated. There's a difference in how he raises his voice and what politicians do.

You never know what will happen.

I have little hope that the debate moderators can either keep him on point or establish any control whatsoever over the proceedings. Also, I agree Gud, I would love to know who gets to try and play that opponent for Hillary.

I have little hope that the debate moderators can either keep him on point or establish any control whatsoever over the proceedings.

Dear god, if they get Megyn Kelly . . .

Jon Stewart or Steven Colbert for debate moderator. I think Trump would actually walk off the stage if that were the case.

Yeah, but he's proven in interviews that he gets angry and blustery when he can't answer a question, so all it will take is a little pushback from Clinton -- or even a moderator -- and he's likely to blow his top.

I am sort of afraid that this is what makes people LIKE him. If you think that Hillary Clinton is a criminal and the actual devil, then someone having all that "righteous" anger could be a good thing in your books. I think that Trump is unlikely to convince people who do not already support him to vote for him, however, so really his sope is that the Hillary hatred is strong enough to move people from her to third party voters.