It’s packed, and TV screens are playing CNN loudly. You can’t hear Ron and Don. (The SECB would also like to note that either Ron or Don has a face for radio.) Every once in a while the “-on”s give away gifts but for the most part they’re hanging out by themselves in a corner.
Apparently, there is good food, but the SECB is not eating it and does not know what it is, either. Everyone else, however, is eating a $14 appetizer plate.
The room is overwhelmingly Obama. People still seem curious and hopeful.
During the first burst of big news—that Kay Hagen is whooping Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina—many people screamed, including the SECB.
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