{"id":1494,"date":"2004-07-29T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T03:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/07\/29\/ramp-up-to-the-big-speeches\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T03:04:08","slug":"ramp-up-to-the-big-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/07\/29\/ramp-up-to-the-big-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramp-up to the big speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a452'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that much of the build-up to the nominee&#8217;s speech comes from<br \/>\nwhat we see and hear in the convention hall before Kerry (or Bush, at<br \/>\nthe RNC) comes on to the platform.&nbsp; We get riled up (even people<br \/>\nlike me who aren&#8217;t too prone to getting easily excited over politics)<br \/>\nand in the mood to see what the big speaker has to say.<\/p>\n<p>But those of you out there who are not watching PBS&#8217;s or CNN&#8217;s or<br \/>\nC-SPAN&#8217;s coverage probably are not getting the same feeling that we<br \/>\nhere are getting.&nbsp; I think you can get <br \/>\nI think that much of the build-up to the nominee&#8217;s speech comes from<br \/>\nwhat we see and hear in the convention hall before Kerry (or Bush, at<br \/>\nthe RNC) comes on to the platform.&nbsp; We get riled up (even people<br \/>\nlike me who aren&#8217;t too prone to getting easily excited over politics)<br \/>\nand in the mood to see what the big speaker has to say.<\/p>\n<p>But those of you out there who are not watching PBS&#8217;s or CNN&#8217;s or<br \/>\nC-SPAN&#8217;s coverage probably are not getting the same feeling that we<br \/>\nhere are getting.&nbsp; I think you can get that feeling over the TV<br \/>\nbroadcast, but you need more context.&nbsp; I certainly remember the<br \/>\nfeeling of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/cuomo1984dnc.htm\">Mario Cuomo&#8217;s speech at the 1984 DNC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Point is, for those of you watching the major networks, it&#8217;s sort of as<br \/>\nif John Kerry dropped unannounced into your living room, without any<br \/>\nparticular reason why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that much of the build-up to the nominee&#8217;s speech comes from what we see and hear in the convention hall before Kerry (or Bush, at the RNC) comes on to the platform.&nbsp; We get riled up (even people like me who aren&#8217;t too prone to getting easily excited over politics) and in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[661],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deeencee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-o6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}