Before the senator's dramatic floor speech, the bill must be drafted; the convention pageantry is typically preceded by the monthslong slog of drawing up a party platform.
When you buckle down to study for a test, finish a homework assignment, or slog your way through a textbook chapter, you're in Robot Mode. You're doing the work.
How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate people, and then how do you get folk who have been fighting, slogging for 20 years, reenergized about the place that they live?
At times it may have seemed like the road ahead was an impossible slog. But today, I have the distinct honor of telling you: you have made it. You only have another half hour to go. It's incredible!