I haven’t followed major party political conventions for more than 30 years, although I’m watching the watchers fairly closely this cycle because I’m editing the stories of two journalists on the ground in Boston for my day job.
David Weinberger had the best snapshot of the convention I’ve seen, when he described what it was like to view the opening proceedings from seven stories up in the Fleet Center:
At 4 o’clock, when the Convention is gaveled to order by Terry MacAuliffe—a man so clean and well groomed that you want to take him home and dress his anatomically incorrect body in lots of fun outfits—the hall is more empty than full.
The second best observation goes to my wife who’s a C-SPAN junkie:
Fox News must not have a lot of fans among Democratic Convention delegates. When the network’s delegate wrangler repeated her requests to turn and face a particular camera “for Fox News,” the delegates responded with resounding “boos.”
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