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Saturday, July 31 | 4:45 p.m. ET
Pat Wingert: Before Kerry's speech Thursday night, a select group of Democratic Party bigwigs were corralled into a holding room in the Fleet Center to watch the nominee's speech--and await their cue to head to the stage for the party's big show of unity amidst a shower of balloons and confetti. The group included all the usual suspects: Democratic senators, governors, key congressmen, mayors, rising stars like Barack Obama as well as the wannabe nominees like Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich.
And watch the speech they did. They saw the salute. They saw Kerry gesturing and pointing. The problem was, most of them didn't hear a word he said. While there were two big monitors set up in the room, there was apparently no volume control to crank up the speakers. "There was some sound, but it was so faint that only the five or so people standing closest to the screens could hear anything," said one witness.
"There was so much noise from the hallway, that most of the people--60 to 70 people--couldn't hear anything." Tempers rose and the unlucky convention staffers on hand heard plenty from the confined. And with no print versions of the speech available, spinning turned out to be more challenging than usual. "When the speech was over, we were all in fear of our local press coming up and asking what we thought of the speech," said one top Democrat in the room. "because none of us had heard a word of it."
Thursday, July 29 | 7:50 p.m. ET
Eleanor Clift: Everybody has a favorite statistic that points to John Kerry winning the election. Here's a sampler from conventiongoers:
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