Short answer: A whole lot of politicos wind up sitting home in their sweatpants binge-watching Veep.

Deciding whether or not to do Cleveland may be simplest for Republican pols on the ballot in November. If a candidate is running in a state or congressional district that trends blue or purple—or whose voters did not enjoy Season 14 of The Apprentice—he or she should stay away from Trump-a-palooza, period. Happily, the need to spend four valuable summer days wooing voters back home is the perfect excuse to avoid the presidential pageant without raising eyebrows. Already, the list of Republicans who claim to be too busy serving constituents to attend includes the rising-star congresswomen Elise Stefanik and Mia Love (who is opting for Israel over Cleveland), as well as Senators Kelly Ayotte and Mark Kirk. (Not that Kirk is shy about his anti-Trumpness. As he explained his planned non-attendance in a radio interview in April: “I’ve got to really do my hair that week.”) While Senator Pat Toomey “has not ruled it out,” his office told me, he is “not likely” to attend thanks to “his busy campaign schedule in Pennsylvania.” Even the former presidential nominee John McCain, said his campaign spokesman, will be “traveling across Northern Arizona that entire week” rather than partying down in Ohio. “Most of our candidates will be doing in-state campaigning,” Andrea Bozek, the communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told me. “And if they aren’t, they should.”

For Republicans not on the ballot, the calculation is more involved. They must decide how willing they are to risk alienating the party’s easily affronted standard-bearer. For #NeverTrumpers such as Senators Lindsey Graham, Ben Sasse, and Jeff Flake, it’s an easy call. Graham will be spending convention week elsewhere, stumping for fellow Republicans. Sasse isn’t sure exactly yet what he will be doing, his office said, but you can bet he won’t be schlepping to Ohio to kiss Trump’s, um, ring. And Flake recently told reporters that he cannot possibly make the big event because, he said, “I've got to mow my lawn.”

Senator Susan Collins, by contrast, will be attending, although she has yet to make up her mind about backing Trump. And at least one on-the-Trump-fence lawmaker feels obliged to go, despite being begged by a top aide not to attend. “I’ve been trying to get him to be anywhere other than Cleveland that week,” lamented the aide, who wished to remain anonymous to spare himself and his boss abuse—“Israel, Alaska, Hawaii. I’ve tried everything!” But the senator is set on going, said the aide, on “the very narrow chance that something surprising does end up happening.”

The trickiest juggling act may be for Ohio Senator Rob Portman. On one hand, he’s running for reelection in a key swing state. On the other, how bad would it look for the Republican senator from the state where the Republican convention is being held to bail? Luckily, Portman’s team has found a way to split the difference. The senator will drop in on the official convention now and again, but much of his week will be spent overseeing his own confab, organized as a thank-you to his campaign volunteers. Among other activities, some 500 summer interns will be bused into Cleveland to do a community-service project (Portman is a big Habitat for Humanity booster), as well as schmooze with other Republicans who Portman’s people are hoping to lure over from the convention proper. That Tuesday, the senator will kayak down the Cuyahoga River with a group of veterans to help Team River Runner raise funds for its wounded-warriors projects. Portman’s people stress that these events have been in the works since well before the nomination was sealed. Still, the fine-tuning of the Senator’s schedule will continue right up until the last minute, so it’s tough to say how much time he will wind up being able to spend at Trump’s get-together. Clever, no?