OK. The Drinking Game would have killed me, so I did something else. I decided to keep track of who spoke. What this all means I'm not sure.

Through the first intermission (5pm central time) . . .

TOTAL PEOPLE SPEAKING 27
STATES REPRESENTED ON STAGE (when origin of speaker is clear) 14
STATES OF THE FORMER CONFEDERACY REPRESENTED 3 (and 1/2 for West Virginia)
MEN 15
WOMEN 12

IDENTIFIABLY GAY 2
SEEMINGLY WHITE 12
SEEMINGLY BLACK 5
SEEMINGLY ASIAN 2
SEEMINGLY AMERICAN INDIAN 0
SEEMINGLY HISPANIC 6
UNCLEAR/CLEARLY MIXED 2
SEEMINGLY HANDICAPPED 0
CARRIE EDWARDS mentioned 2

USE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Spanish: “Muchisimas Gracias”
Spanish: an awfully garbled phrase from McAuliffe
Spanish: “Senor Presidente McAuliffe, su espanol es muy bueno”
Spanish: lots of stuff from Hilda Solis
USE OF THE WORD NEWKILLER
Tom Vilsack of Ohio
JOHNNY B. GOODE PLAYED ONCE

AND HERE IS THE BREAKDOWN (I didn’t start out typing names):
white man from Maryland (Terry McAuliffe)
hispanic woman from New Mexico (Robyn Chavez, Miss Teen NM, singing)
black man from Pennsylvania (pledge)
white woman from Michigan (Debbie Stabenow)
black woman from Georgia
hispanic man from New Jersey
Japanese American man from California (Robert Matsui)
black man from New York
white man from Maryland (Steny Hoyer)
gay white man from somewhere (Andrew Tobias)
white woman from somewhere (Maureen White)
white woman from West Virginia
hispanic/black (?) woman from Texas
black woman from Texas
hispanic woman from California
white man from somewhere (Mark Brewer)
white/hispanic man from New Mexico (Bill Richardson)
white woman from Connecticut (Rosa DeLauro)
white man from Ohio (Tom Vilsack)
white man from somewhere (William Perry)
hispanic woman from California (Hilda Solis)
hispanic man from California (Antionio Villaraigosa)
hispanic man from New Mexico (Bill Garcia)
white woman from Iowa (Patty Judge)
asian man from California (Bill Lann Lee)
lesbian white woman from California (Roberta Achtenberg)
black man from Florida (John Marks)

STATES REPRESENTED:
CALIFORNIA 6
UNKNOWN BY GREG 4
NEW MEXICO 3
MARYLAND 2
TEXAS 2
CONNECTICUT 1
FLORIDA 1
GEORGIA 1
IOWA 1
MICHIGAN 1
NEW JERSEY 1
NEW YORK 1
OHIO 1
PENNSYLVANIA 1
WEST VIRGINIA 1
THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD 0