I decided the NV Democratic State Covention would be a good chance to use my new Pulse Smartpen. I sold my Wii to get this bitch and then waited six months for them to finally ship it, so it better be awesome. (So far it is.)
Sorry about the delay in getting the pencast out. It took longer to upload than I expected. It will also take a long time to download, but it will be worth it. It is here.
Anyway, this is the first three hours of the covention. I haven't listened to all of it, or any of it really, so I can't attest to the sound quality. If you click on the name of the speaker it should cue up to around the time that speaker is speaking. I apologize for misspelling almost everything, including people's names.
I'll post some convention comments after the fold.
I know that the results have already been posted a couple of times, but for anyone who missed it, or just likes seeing it again: Obama got 14 delegates and Clinton got 11 delegates. That is a net gain of two delegates over the caucus results from January. We also, most likely, will pick up an add-on delegate and make it 15-11.
I arrived around 7 am and checked in. I was pre-registered (and did get the fee waiver for anyone who followed that thread) so that part went really fast.
From there I went to the Obama delegate meeting room. For some reason the Obama room was tiny. The Clinton room was about three times the size of our little broom closet. Did they think Clinton would have more people? Do they just hate us? Whatever, we made due with our tiny room and had a nice pre-convention meeting.
After the pre-convention meeting we went down to the convention floor. The convention started a little late, of course. The first hour we had a fight over the rules. Specifically how our electorates were chosen.
The chairman and the executive board had selected a slate of electorates and wanted us to approve them. Many of us felt that the delegates should elect the electorates, rather than having them appointed. We ultimately won that, but the selection of electorates was tabled.
Then we had a series of speakers. Bill Clinton showed up to speak on behalf of Hillary. His speech was all about uniting behind the nominee and he pretty much did not talk about Hillary at all.
For Obama, we had Kal Penn. I absolutely adore this guy, so I was thrilled. He's way better, and hotter, than Bill Clinton. He spoke well on Obama's behalf.
The theme of most of the speeches was John McCain and unity.
After everyone spoke they announced the delegate allocations. You can see the actual percentages in my pencast.
When it finally came time to elect our national delegates each CD went to different rooms. I was there with the rurals. We only had one delegate to elect. Since Obama won the rurals that delegate was for Obama. The Hillary people started shouting and getting pissed because they weren't allowed to run candidates. I really don't understand why they thought they should have a right to run candidates when Obama won. They kept claiming they were being disenfranchised. Of course, the reality is that their presence there was their vote. They didn't have enough votes so they didn't get the delegate. That is not disenfranchisement, that is losing.
Well, that's my convention report. I would be happy to address any questions below. Overall, it was an awesome day for Obama.
[Update]
The addon delegate has been selected. His name is Rusty McAllister and he is uncommitted. Thanks to BradF and MSN1 for reporting this information.