Day 2 is barely underway and already the storm has reached tropical storm proportions. The WordPress connection is hit or miss this morning and I’m leaving for lunch soon so I won’t go into much detail now. However, I will say this: no one is getting along. What has struck me the most this morning is how little people understand the system. Few understand the system for getting credentials and even fewer understand how the voting will actually take place.
Making matters worse is Hillary’s ambiguous position on what her delegates are supposed to do. The delegations are supposed to vote tomorrow morning and yet Hillary isn’t supposedly going to release her delegates until tomorrow afternoon. This means that a) the Hillary supporters are pissed and confused (always a great combination) and that b) the Obama campaign sees no value in the SD delegation (and why would they?).
The theme of the Convention is supposed to be unity and so far, I don’t see it, at least not on the ground level. Granted, I haven’t been to the Pepsi Center yet so I couldn’t tell you what the overall atmosphere is. One good thing: even with all of their infighting and bickering and windblowing, no one in the delegation has threatened to vote for McCain. At least we can all agree that we’re Democrats.
I scored credentials today so I’ll have photos from the floor later tonight. (Pay attention to my Twitter feed on the side for random updates throughout the day though.) Also on tap for today is a talk by the Hispanic Insitute with guests Bill Richardson and Dan Abrahms, dinner with CNN’s Bill Press and other lawyers and lobbyists, and then Hillary’s speech. Oh it’s going to be one hell of a day.
PS: There really was chocolate cake last night, with espresso. Guess who didn’t get any sleep last night? Though that may have been the quadruple Americano I had at 10PM.
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Nice shoes.
Good update EG. thanks for the inside track