Since I arrived at the convention at 11pm, initial impressions were defined by the parties. But before that...on the flight in I saw a quick clip from the Howard Dean speech, which was surprisingly dead boring. Delegates confirmed it was a snoozer.
@ Trudeau Dion had a kiosk with two very keen looking politicos with oversized T-shirts staring me down... I went directly to the party sponsored by Jason Cherniak and "Liblogs" -- a friendly group of folks. Few signs though of tech geeky--ness, except for an older delegate looky very wobbly on a segway in the corner of the room (odd). Who were the bloggers?
The hotel also seemed to be the headquarters for Dion, but might be wrong on that one. Dion was the only candidate to show up, while I was there at least, but apart from one photo-op with delegates, Andrew Coyne (National Post) seemed to have a bigger crowd around him. Met up with Cherniak and "A BCer in Toronto" and was told that Calgary Grit had 'come out the closet'. Apparently Stephen Taylor, head of the 'blogging Tories' is also cruising around the convention.
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