Democratic Convention Watch 2008 - Night 2

Tonight is Hillary's night, of course, and all the talk is whether or not those PUMA (that's Party United My Ass) people will get in line behind the candidate who won the primary (that would be Barack Obama).

Katha Pollitt, who writes about "women's issues" over at The Nation (click to the right - too lazy to set up a link), is stalking delegates at the Convention, partly to get to the bottom of this. A couple of women she's talked to think that probably a lot of these so-called PUMAs were actually McCain supporters all along. Seems like a reasonable theory to me. There's certainly no other rational explanation.

So I'm just gearing up for the night's events, and a laid off mill worker from North Carolina was pretty compelling. The rich lady following a little less so. But then I've been getting this post going and not really paying attention, so maybe that's not fair.

Next is Kathleen Sebelius. Maybe I'll give her her own post.