While conventional local TV, radio and newspaper news outlets still rank highest, social media, search engines, and newcomer locally focused apps (Nextdoor, Ring) are increasingly becoming go-tos.

Polls and prediction markets and forecast models, oh my! The truth is they're all secondary to the way the media cover the presidential news cycle, especially the inevitable black swan stories that will break in the months ahead.

Well, now we know how Kamala Harris is going to prosecute her campaign against Trump. It will be on behalf of what she described as the only client she has ever had: the people. You know, us. And if you ask me, it is the perfect tagline for the campaign - "Kamala Harris, for the people" - because ultimately, it fundamentally is what America is all about. I mean, read the Constitution.

"It's the fourth quarter, we're down a field goal, but we're on offense and we've got the ball. We're driving down the field," Tim Walz reminded Democrats, turning up the DNC's Wednesday night lights and coaching them on how to take the field.

In hilarious, entertaining, but also poignantly serious back-to-back speeches, the Obamas articulated things we've all been wondering about Trump for way too long.

Until Jan. 6, 2021, America had experienced the peaceful transfer of power. Last night, it witnessed the first altruistic, patriotic transfer during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. "America, I gave my best to you," President Joe Biden said, capping off his keynote endorsement of Kamala Harris to succeed him.

I once called Democrats' use of TikTok for messaging "peak idiocracy," but sometimes you can teach old trade reporters new tricks. As for grand old parties, not so much.

Perceptions that Trump fumbled his NABJ appearance are dead wrong. It was never his target audience. The reality is that the people he wanted to reach weren't in the room he was speaking at.