Democratic National Convention **live commentary thread**

[Xing]

Time for DAN THE MAN!

[Gass3268]

I think the Sanders people are getting tired.

I've heard on twitter that the Clinton/Sanders campaigns are now "whipping" the crowd to be more reasonable.

If that's the case then they should have been doing that from the start.

Oh I totally agree, but at least they seemed to figure things out now.

[KingSweden]

I think the Sanders people are getting tired.

I've heard on twitter that the Clinton/Sanders campaigns are now "whipping" the crowd to be more reasonable.

If that's the case then they should have been doing that from the start.

Better now than never

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Malloy's speech is very inspiring.

[Gass3268]

Nate Silver is saying that only about 2-5% of the entire arena is booing.

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[DrScholl]

Nate Silver is saying that only about 2-5% of the entire arena is booing.

"Nate Silver ‏@NateSilver538  17s17 seconds ago
How many people were booing mentions of Hillary? I'd guess 2-5% of the delegates, or something like that. A few loud pockets of people."

It doesn't sound like a big amount of people, so that sounds about right.

[Gass3268]

Here is your problem:

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[evergreenarbor]

Nate Silver is saying that only about 2-5% of the entire arena is booing.

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That would be about 5-12% of the Sanders delegates, given that 40% of the delegates are Sanders delegates.

[Wells]

They booed somebody who wasn't Clinton.

[Xing]

They booed somebody who wasn't Clinton.

This is, perhaps, the most effective way to bring about unity, even if it's not ideal.

[heatcharger]

Here is your problem:

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Of course it's the conservadems causing trouble.

If this is true then they need to rearrange the seating chart ASAP.

[Averroës Nix]

That Democratic voters are inefficiently distributed for winning Congressional seats has more to do with population geography than with how district lines are drawn...

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Can they change the seating plan mid-convention?

[KingSweden]

Nate Silver is saying that only about 2-5% of the entire arena is booing.

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That would be about 5-12% of the Sanders delegates, given that 40% of the delegates are Sanders delegates.

Would line up with polls suggesting 90% of Sanders supporters will back Hillary

[Gass3268]

Can they change the seating plan mid-convention?

I would not be shocked if they do that tomorrow.

[Kingpoleon]

Yeah abolish the death penalty, and criminals return in our towns and cities.

They will, unless you give everyone life in prison.

I don't want criminals near me. Do you?

Criminals are lurking in every nearby prison, just waiting to pounce.

[Wells]

Democrats have great music.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

This music is pitiful.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

This music is pitiful.

Yeah, how come they have yet to have somebody come out to 'Immigrant Song'?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

This music is pitiful.

Could you be any more of imbecilic teenaged boy?

[Gass3268]

Just read a tweet that the Sanders camp has dispatched Ben Jealous to go to some of their more rowdy supporters.

[NOVA Green]

Haven't seen much on this thread, other than the usual Hillary hacks freaking out blaming everything on Bernie, and the Republican hacks rubbing their hands.

What is neglected is the fundamentals that the Democratic Party is deeply divided regarding foreign and economic policy, over decades of poor decisions going back to the early 1990s and the time of the DLC.

We saw NAFTA rammed down our throat supported by a Democratic President, where the vast majority our Senators and Reps voted against.

Personally, I saw (500) jobs disappear virtually overnight in a (9,000 employee) manufacturing facility of a Fortune 500 company where I worked, where the starting pay was $11.50-13.50/Hour (DOE) back in the mid '90s, including two friends that worked on those lines. Subsequently, the same company shut down virtually all manufacturing lines and relocated them to Ireland, Puerto Rico, and Singapore, and several thousand more high paying manufacturing jobs (Including management, engineers, sales and marketing, etc...) in order to take advantage of corporate tax loopholes.

These stories exist across America, and yes the Democratic Party at senior levels was responsible for that trade agreement.

Is it any wonder that Donald Trump has made this a major issue, when it appears for many Democratic voters that the Party is so much in favor of "Free Trade" without providing "Fair Trade" that actually provides the labor and environmental protections, job retraining and education policies that were promised when the Democratic Party DLC (Now thankfully retired) chose to go that route???

I know many posters on this forum, including a huge number of red avatars, don't actually remember what happened because they are too young, nor saw friends, family, and even communities impacted by the destruction caused by a Neo-Corporatist vision as part of a giant "race to the bottom" based upon a Globalist vision that appears to care more about Wall Street investors where everything is Profit/Loss and not about investing in America Inc....

Don't blame Bernie for actually speaking the truth when it comes to the collusion of *both* political parties in the selling out of America to the highest bidder.

[Likely Voter]

just saw row of Bernie supporters with Bernie stickers on their mouths. I guess they are protesting being whipped to not boo. Net result is the same

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

This music is pitiful.

Could you be any more of imbecilic teenaged boy?

Dude, the RNC music was bad too. They should've played Sinatra's New York New York during the balloon drop. Instead they played a Stones song that had no connection at all.

Calm down dude.

[Xing]

just saw row of Bernie supporters with Bernie stickers on their mouths. I guess they are protesting being whipped to not boo. Net result is the same

If we don't hear as much booing, that's certainly better for Hillary on balance.