Jane at Firedoglake has an excellent post, HuffPo Lunch: Dirty Bloggers Eatin’ Cold Salmon. Big donors and corporate sponsors continue to make the Democrats' world go round. There are many different levels of media access at the convention. Thankfully, we're still dirty hippies in that world.

Nate Silver writes:

I tend to agree with the conventional wisdom that there was liable to be a bit of a near-term backlash whenever Obama announced his VP choice, provided that the VP was not Hillary Clinton . . .

(Emphasis supplied.) Funny, I never heard that anywhere before except, oh yes here, on June 8:

The DNCC just sent out the final schedule for tonight at the Democratic National Convention. The final hour -- 8:00 to 9:00pm MT -- will feature the following, in order:

• Ret. Rear Admiral John Hutson
  President, Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, Lifelong Republican

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Here's my video of my travels through the Pepsi Center last night. It's very raw and shaky and very different from what pro video-bloggers would post but I think you get a real sense of being in the Pepsi Center from it. [More...]

2,500 people signed up to attend the Emily's List Gala at 2pm today.

Hillary just began speaking and you can watch it online here.

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Eric Boehlert writes:

At the Democratic National Convention in 1992, Jerry Brown, who finished a very distant second to the party's nominee, had his name placed into nomination and addressed the assembled convention. . . .Brown "did not specifically endorse presidential nominee Bill Clinton."

[J]ust hours before the 1988 convention began, Jackson's supporters threatened to place the candidate's name into nomination for the vice presidency, which would have created a massive floor fight between Jackson and Dukakis' pick, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. . . . Jackson did not specifically endorse Dukakis.

Eric leaves out the deservedly lionized (pun intended) Ted Kennedy's actions at the 1980 Convention. Eric points to CNN's Keating Holland's piece, and writes:

Your turn.

Well, we have now seen 3 polls taken fully after Joe Biden was named as Barack Obama's VP choice and the news is not good. First we have the CNN poll which has a tie.

Today the Rasmussen and Gallup trackers are fully post -Biden as VP. Ras has a tie. Gallup has McCain up 2.

Perhaps the Convention will help. But it seems clear that Joe Biden did not. UPDATE - This is not a knock on Biden. He can not be Hillary Clinton. This is a knock on Obama for not maximizing his chances to win in November,

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

John Harris pens an article titled Can Clintons Get Over It? I think the question is can Obama Dems, the Media and the Left Blogs get over it? Harris writes:

For the next two days, a convention that belongs to Obama will be dominated by the same two people who dominated the Democratic Party for the last generation and who have come to Denver in much different roles than they wanted. She speaks Tuesday. It’s his turn Wednesday.

Look, if the Media and the blogs did not obsess on the Clintons, maybe they would not dominate it. For example, Joe Biden speaks on Wednesday night and Mark Warner delivers the keynote address tonight. Why does the Media think these folks will not dominate the nights? You know why, because as much as John Harris and the Media and the Left blogs wishes this were true:

Yesterday's city in crisis (as the result of police misconduct) was Indianapolis, where ten officers "have been arrested, jailed or targeted for investigation in the past four months." The crisis is one of confidence in the police department.

Today's city in crisis is the much smaller community of Madison, CT, where a crisis in confidence is compounded by a budgetary crisis.

In just two months, the town has used its entire legal budget investigating misconduct among officers.

Eight Madison police officers have been arrested within the last two years and the police chief has been suspended.

Where I am it is the afternoon. Where a lot of you are, it is still the morning. So I am calling this "Tuesday Open Thread." I suspect there will be a few more today.

This is an Open Thread.

Tonight is Hillary Night! Just kidding, although clearly Hillary Clinton will be the dominant protagonist.

It's a done deal, but Jay Cost explains why Obama should have picked Hillary Clinton:

The Democratic Party is powerful because it is broad. It can compete just about anywhere in the United States while the Republican Party cannot. However, its breadth carries with it an enhanced possibility of crippling division. Accordingly, every Democratic nominee should do everything within reason to achieve unity - which, I would note, has been a premise of Obama's campaign. Most nominees need not worry about unity because their act of securing the nomination did not rend the party. However, Obama's nomination has rent it. Selecting Hillary would have been a reasonable step in reuniting it. I think he should have taken it.

(Emphasis supplied.) Precisely.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only.