Polls, etc.

A few weeks ago I got contacted by both the Charlotte Observer and CBS/New York Times. They wanted to poll convention delegates, which is cool for me since I've never done a poll before (how much of a political nerd do you have to be to want to do a poll?)

The Charlotte Observer was pretty simple - a few short questions mostly about whether this was my first convention, who I was, where I was from, etc.

The CBS/NYT was conducted by phone and took about a half hour to complete. They must have asked me about everything - the primary process, issues, Obama, and so on. Yes and No questions, scaled answers, open-ended. I've been meaning to post about this for a few weeks, but things have been pretty hectic and I forgot, so I don't really remember enough of questions or answers.

I forgot to post the link to an article in The Appalachian, the student newspaper at ASU, about me going to Denver, so here it is: http://theapp.appstate.edu/content/view/3701/42/.

A while back I posted about the potential lack of fun, i.e., parties, at the convention. Well from what I've read there are going to be plenty.

There was an article in CQ Politics not too long ago listing some of the parties, hosted by Denver lawyers, national lobbyists, the Democratic Governors Association, etc. I even got an invite from Sheriff Hagaman to go to the NaCO party for local elected officials since he won't be there. So, despite my previous whining, there should be plenty going on.

We're less than a month away and I'm very excited! One thing I am interested in that I haven't seen anything about is the delegation seating chart for the Pepsi Center... hopefully it's better than our hotel location (10 miles Southeast of Downtown!).