Thursday was a big night. As evidenced by the 40 million television viewers and the convention average of 22.5 million households a night.
During the convention there was little time to blog unless you had an aircard, and there was even less time to keep up with fellow bloggers and their posts. In fact, I didn’t get around to looking at fellow delegation members blogs until Thursday morning. For those interested in that material I would recommend Suzi LeVine’s delegate blog, http://suzilevine.wordpress.com/ where the right side of the page has links to other delegate blogs.
I have multiple blogs in my head, and there is a lot of content and wonderful news I have not shared, but production is thwarted by exhaustion, travel and post-convention decompressing. On more than one occasion I told delegates: enjoy it, because on Friday we’re chopped liver. Well, it’s Friday.
One thought that I would want to share is that conventions do matter. It goes beyond the fact that the outcome, the winner, is already determined. It is an opportunity for the parties to define their agenda and make their case to the public. On the ground there are efforts by various groups to improve our democracy by presentations, featured speakers, information booths, new technologies, music, and art. In the end, the projected economic boom for Denver is 200 million dollars. And I suspect there are a few people who will use their experiences here in Denver to go on and help others. Conventions do matter-in a big way.