I always love this. It's important to keep up to date on which people, places, and phenomena the respective Great States are proud of.
Until and unless we get an official thread for this, let's liveblog the incredibly suspenseful action from Denver.
N.B.: Live stream available at c-span.org. Grab it while you can; I don't think this will last much longer.
...3:53 PM Denver time: I've decided I want the guy from American Samoa to follow me around nominating me for things.
...3:55 PM: I like the way Arkansas did it: proudly cast its votes for Hillary Clinton while exhorting the convention to stand behind Barack Obama.
...3:56 PM: California passes, presumably because its 9000 delegates would get the roll call over with too early.
...3:59 PM: You know, I never thought it was fair that Democrats Abroad only get half as many delegates as they should. It's not like they ignored party rules and held their primary early... not that I am bitter.
...4:01 PM: Good on Eleanor Holmes Norton for pushing the Taxation Without Representation thing. Meanwhile, C-SPAN (and probably other networks) are keeping a running tally at the bottom of the screen. The suspense is killing me!
...4:03 PM: Florida. This is a little embarrassing...
...4:05 PM: Now, see, Georgia knows how to do a convention roll call. "The empire state of the South," indeed.
...4:08 PM: Is that Sen. Daniel Inouye speaking for Hawaii? C-SPAN doesn't say.
...4:09 PM: Idaho is "where the sun first touches the mountains"? I'm pretty sure that's not true. Here comes Illinois...
...4:11 PM: Illinois passes! I wonder what they have up their sleeve.
...4:12 PM: The front page now has an open thread for... the Big Tent. Don't they know there's a roll call going on?
...4:14 PM: I wondered when the Kansas guy was going to get around to mentioning the Jayhawks.
...4:17 PM: Louisiana proudly casts its votes for gumbo and jambalaya. Now I'm hungry. Our total: Obama 820.5, Clinton 208.5.
...4:18 PM: The Maine guy loses his train of thought. Right on!
...4:19 PM: One thing convention newbies may not know is that they always arrange things so that Ohio can put the nominee over the top. I don't know who died and left Ohio in charge, but whatever.
...4:20 PM: We're on the rec list! For those of you just joining us, Obama is still winning. Just thought you'd like to know.
...4:22 PM: Massachusetts runs through the list of things its sports teams have accomplished. "And the proud home of the 2008 Super Bowl Ch--er, ahem." Nice to hear the nod to the gay marriage law. We're Democrats, people! Damn right we're proud!
...4:26 PM: Mississippi. The M states are really dragging this thing out. We may end up in prime time after all.
...4:30 PM: Dear God, there are a lot of M states. I suppose we're all wondering who will speak for New York, which I assume will be the state to move that we nominate by acclimation.
...4:32 PM: Montana, you know we love you, but shut the hell up.
...4:33 PM: Nebraska! Finally, an N state! Rejoice!!
...4:35 PM: The great state of Nevada proudly offers 1 to 3 odds on Barack Obama in November, with the over/under standing at 63 percent turnout.
...4:37 PM: With New York just around the corner, we stand at Obama 1392.5, Clinton 341.5.
...4:41 PM: Drama!! New Mexico guy almost votes... then relinquishes to Illinois!
...4:42 PM: The great state of Illinois yields to the great state of New York! The crowd goes wild! People, this is what roll calls are all about!!
...4:44 PM: There's Hillary!
...4:46 PM: Hillary moves that we nominate the senator from the great state of Illinois by acclamation...
...4:47 PM: But will the convention agree to suspend the rules? Oh, the drama!
4:48 PM Mountain Daylight Time, August 27, 2008: We have a Pope nominee!!!