DAY TWO of the Democratic National Convention

I think I’m going to do things a tad differently. I’m still keeping track of states, though.

18 total speakers in the first hour.

STATES REPRESENTED (night one in brackets, each person counted only once)
UNKNOWN BY GREG [15] 1
CALIFORNIA [11] 2 I think California is going to run away with it.
NEW MEXICO [6] 1
MASSACHUSSETTS [2] 4
NEW YORK [3] 1
PENNSYLVANIA [1] 2
FLORIDA [2] 1
IOWA [1] 1
NEW HAMPSHIRE [0] 1
OREGON [0] 1
TENNESSEE [1] 1
COLORADO [0] 1
MINNESOTA [0] 1

Everyone else, same as at the end of last night.

-- Bill Richardson starts us off (white/hispanic guy, NM)
-- Invocation by Ernest Branch of Mass. (black guy, Mass). Rev Branch is fond of the phrase “Father God”, which always sounds funny to me.
-- Firemen from MA (white guys) and a pipe and drum corps from NH (white guys and gals) march in with the flags. Curiously, the band plays “You’re a Grand Ole Flag”, which doesn’t sound as good as you might think on those instruments. (I’m counting the firemen as One and the band as One).
-- Pledge from a local Mass white guy, I think.
-- National anthem from a Boston firefighter white guy.
-- Tom Vilsack (white guy of Iowa)
-- Bob Matsui (AsianAmer guy of Cali)
THE NEXT FEW ARE ALL CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES
-- Lois Murphy (white gal from Penn)
-- Allison Schwartz (white gal from Penn)
-- Jim Stork (white guy of Florida)
-- Patty Wetterling (white gal of Minnesota)
END THAT SECTION
-- Betsy Cavendish (white gal from somewhere who looks like Scott Thompson)
-- video tribute to the Boston area, featuring Conan O’Brian and Doris Kearns Plagiarist Goodwin. Sadly, Carlton isn’t in the video.
-- John Tanner (white guy of Tennessee)
-- Linda Sanchez (hispanic gal of Cali), played in with “Spill the Wine” by Eric Burdon and War. Odd choice. She gives us our first use of SPANISH of the night.
-- Nita Lowey (white gal of New York)
-- Diana DeGette (white gal of Colorado)
-- Earl Blumenauer (white guy with BOW TIE of Oregon)
-- “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang gets played.

I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I’m not so keen on the band.