The Nevada State Democratic Convention

just ended, a mere 20 minutes behind schedule. It was hilarious to listen to people go positively crazy when it comes to the platform language. After about an hour of listening to silliness back and forth about whether the amended language (which amounted to a grand total of two sentences) should be included in the platform, it was finally adopted. But God, people were anal about it.

And then it got stupid when the subject of the five electors was brought up. Two electors selected were from Clark County, two from Washoe, and one from the rural districts, in this case a southern rural county. Well, some idiot objected to that thinking the rurals should have two electors and Washoe County have just one elector. Never mind the simple fact almost the entire population of Nevada is included in Clark and Washoe Counties. Well, we had to take a vote on it, and it was supposedly so close that the chair had us literally move to each side of the room so he could get a body count. The nutty idea was soundly rejected.

Unity was the big theme of this convention, but it wasn't partisanship regarding Obama and Clinton that was the problem. Hell, everybody was pretty much cordial to each other. It was the stupid damned rules that pissed some people off.

There were perhaps 900 or a thousand people there this morning; most who attended yesterday and weren't there today probably took the plane or car back home to Vegas. The convention last night went for a least an hour past after I had left at 10 p.m.

Another point of view can be found here. Note the blogger says the Obama people started acting like idiots when Bill Clinton started to speak yesterday. I was downstairs in the holding room for alternates, so I didn't hear this disrespectful crap.