RNC Observation

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Just an observation about the RNC as compared to the DNC...

Is it just me, or does the RNC seems to have a lot of older attendees as compared to the DNC? I'm not trying to start or insinuate anything, just merely making an obersvation and wondering if anybody else thought the same thing...

Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern -- a visual reminder that no black Republican has served as a governor, U.S. senator or U.S. House member in the past six years.

floridafun wrote:and when the camera swirled around to get a view of it, we also got to see all those empty seats.

cardinal5150 wrote:Apparently I was watching a different convention.. the camera shots I saw showed people packed into every spot on the floor. I did like that McCain actually made an attempt to call the parties to work together, though I'm sure most people will ignore that.

Bman wrote:

cardinal5150 wrote:Apparently I was watching a different convention.. the camera shots I saw showed people packed into every spot on the floor. I did like that McCain actually made an attempt to call the parties to work together, though I'm sure most people will ignore that.

Obama had 84,000 in the stadium to listen to his speech.

floridafun wrote:did the camera shots you saw also show all those folks that were nodding off? guess the station i was watching must have been showing a different angle

LTRT wrote:

floridafun wrote:did the camera shots you saw also show all those folks that were nodding off? guess the station i was watching must have been showing a different angle

That wasn't the same channel that turned off the sound during the applause of the current President's speech, now was it?

meta4 wrote:

LTRT wrote:

floridafun wrote:did the camera shots you saw also show all those folks that were nodding off? guess the station i was watching must have been showing a different angle

That wasn't the same channel that turned off the sound during the applause of the current President's speech, now was it?

Those Bastards! It takes some balls to cut out the best parts of his speech!

“It’s not merely a lost job, it’s a lost sense of identity. I don’t think my Republican friends — and this is not your father’s Republican party, by the way. So folks, when I listen to the parts of the Republican convention I can hear…it’s not what I heard, it’s what I didn’t hear. The silence of the Republican party was deafening. It was deafening on jobs, on health care, on the environment, on all the things that matter to the people in the neighborhood’s I grew up in. Deafening! Their America is not the America I live in. They see something different than I see.

“Rick Davis, John’s campaign manager, said ‘this election is not about issues.’ Everything I saw at the convention demonstrated that.

“What do you talk about about when you have nothing to say? What do you talk about when you can’t explain the last eight years of failure?”