mattering

The homeowner-renter divide was the survey’s most significant social cleavage in attitudes toward the construction of affordable housing, rent control and universal basic income, mattering more than differences in race, income and education.

But in the end, what happened this week on the shores of Lake Michigan may end up not mattering very much, given Trump’s consistent lead in polls and Biden’s dire straits.

The negativity could end up mattering in the 2024 presidential election.

"It's difficult to predict how the expenditures of these monies will affect turnout in the primary election, and that might be what ends up mattering the most," Dowling said.

Of course, it didn’t wind up mattering because Rasika lost again anyway, but the whole “episode” really espoused the energy of this season, which is sort of fly by your pants?