Oh my.

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It’s a new morning in America… fresh, vital.

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Barack Obama in Las Vegas

From the campaign email:

Please join us Wednesday, September 17th, for a rally with Barack Obama in Las Vegas:

Change We Need Rally
with Barack Obama

The Baseball Stadium at Cashman Center
850 Las Vegas Blvd. North

Wednesday, September 17th
Doors Open: 2:30 p.m.
Program Begins: 5:00 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public; tickets are not required but an RSVP is encouraged. Space is available on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP using the form to the right.

For security reasons, do not bring bags and please limit personal items. No signs or banners permitted.

You can RSVP on the official site. Also, the first of four debates (three presidential, one VP), takes place September 26th. Those are gonna be fun.

Music appreciation day.

Burma Emergency, a short film by creative agency Shilo. Thank you, Tri-Crescendo, for really introducing me to Chopin.

Also, if you happen to catch this post on Sunday, violinist Paul Dateh is hosting a live performance with Ken Belcher tonight. Show starts at 5pm PST / 8pm EST.

Texas caucus.

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”

Hah, looks like things went just as smoothly for Texas Democrats.

Oops.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

More on the Clark County Dem Convention

I’ve got a whole slew of stuff from the day captured on audio, but others have done better and provided some actual video. This makes me happy, now all I’ve gotta do is write up a few words and toss out links versus spending the evening cleaning up sound files. Hurray internet!

Update: Eh whatever, it was easy, added a few audio files to the post.

So, in roughly chronological order…

From PolitickerNV, here’s Bill Stanley attempting to recess the convention due to the chaos of the day. At this time, the crowd didn’t exactly care for the idea.

I’ve uploaded audio of the whole exchange:

Somewhere in the middle of things, Al Franken gave his speech.

I missed the first few seconds where he quipped about how none of the day’s events were his fault, but the rest is there. It was a good speech, and I wish him the best of luck in Minnesota.

Next came the motion to caucus, which went slightly better:

Franky sent over his video of Billy Vassiliadis addressing the Obama campaign gathering (where I was located) after the two camps decided to split up and figure out a way to resolve the day’s mess:

As you can see, this time around the same proposal to recess had an ultimately favorable reaction. The two campaigns regrouped in the main hall, the motion passed, and everyone went home, shaking their heads.

More from PolitickerNV:
Pandemonium! The 2008 Clark County Democratic Convention

And here’s the RJ take on things:
COUNTY CONVENTION: Chaos delays Democratic vote

Clark County Democratic Convention

Been a crazy day so far, six hours into it. Updating the interesting bits on twitter as the day progresses.