Tuesday, July 27, 2004

ROUND THREE, starting with Bill Richardson and the singing of the anthem by Bebe Winans and going on to after the children sang and the woman from Little Rock spoke via satellite (as before, each asterisk represents a repeat speaker).

By the way, I’m not counting people in the videos.

Also by the way (and I’ve got a lot of nerve pointing this out, considering my own skillz), lots of people in the arena wouldn’t know a downbeat if it hit them in their big, smug asses.

Also also by the way, are they going to play The Cars? Boston? Whoever sang “I Love that Dirty Water, Awww Boston You’re Mah Home”?

TOTAL PEOPLE SPEAKING (27, 13**) 7*
STATES REPRESENTED (when origin of speaker is clear) (14, 6*) 6*
STATES OF THE FORMER CONFEDERACY REPRESENTED (3.5, 2) 2

MEN (15, 9**) 4
WOMEN (12, 4) 3

IDENTIFIABLY GAY (2, 0) 0
SEEMINGLY WHITE (12, 10*) 4
SEEMINGLY BLACK (5, 2) 2
SEEMINGLY ASIAN (2, 1) 0
SEEMINGLY AMERICAN INDIAN (0, 0) 0
SEEMINGLY HISPANIC (6, 0) 0
UNCLEAR/CLEARLY MIXED (2, 0) 1*
SEEMINGLY HANDICAPPED (0, 1) 0
CARRIE EDWARDS MENTIONED (2, 0) 3

USES OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (4, 1) Just Spanish so far.

REFERENCES TO STOLEN ELECTION (0, 4) 7
REFERENCE TO NADER VOTERS (0, 0) 1
ODD SLIP O’ THE TONGUE (0, 0) 1 (Gore’s “ecoterr . . . NARCO terrorism”)

“PROUD MARY” PLAYED, WITH STUPID KERRY LYRICS (0, 0) 1
“THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND” SANG SANS RADICAL LYRICS (0, 0) 1
“EVERYDAY PEOPLE” PLAYED (0, 1) 1
“TENNESSEE WALTZ” PLAYED (0, 0) 1

STATES REPRESENTED (first round in parentheses):
UNKNOWN BY GREG (4, 7) 1
CALIFORNIA (6, 1) 1
MARYLAND (2, 2**) 1
NEW MEXICO (3, 0) 1*
TEXAS (2, 1) 0
OHIO (1, 0) 1
FLORIDA (1, 1) 0
ARKANSAS (0, 0) 1
CONNECTICUT (1, 0) 0
GEORGIA (1, 0) 0
ILLINOIS (0, 1) 0
IOWA (1, 0) 0
MASSACHUSSETTS (0, 1) 0
MICHIGAN (1, 0) 0
NEW JERSEY (1, 0) 0
NEW YORK (1, 0) 0
PENNSYLVANIA (1, 0) 0
TENNESSEE (0, 0) 1
WEST VIRGINIA (1, 0) 0

AND NOW IT’S TIME FOR A BREAKDOWN
black man from somewhere (Bebe Winans)
white/hispanic man from New Mexico (Bill Richardson again, so asterisk)
white man from Tennessee (Al Gore)
white man from Ohio (Bill Ray)
white woman from California (Glenn Close)
the female U.S. senators from the Democratic party (they spake not, so count not)
white woman from from Maryland (Barbara Mikulski)
a gang of children, in every color of the rainbow, unidentified and uncounted
a black woman from Arkansas (her name escaped me)

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