Is there any provision for a battlefield promotion to House or Senate Minority Leader?

I wonder if part of it is that the companies making the ads want to make more of them and get better over time. If so, they might charge less for them. And they’d inherently be cheaper and quicker to make than traditional ads. Some clients would take the trade, even if it will bite them eventually.

Yeah, that makes sense. Jay wasn’t a minor figure, but also wasn’t as big a part of shaping the structure of government.

Not arguing the main point, but was Hamilton significantly more prominent than other New Yorkers before Miranda upgraded him? I recall him being more on a similar level as, say, John Jay or Gouverneur Morris. But I don’t have high confidence in that recollection.

A third is generous indeed. Once they got to 70, they’d have a heck of a time living another 30 years with no support from anyone younger.

Also horrifying is the almost-as-large fractions who answered “That’s me!”

Very polite to not assume they were on a first-name basis.

These guys love to talk about the importance of markets, until they want to say a place with sky high real estate prices is terrible. (Or they want a bailout.)