John Edwards rocked. He totally "gets" the youth vote thing and hit all the right notes. And wow, did our delegates respond. General session speakers Chuck Rocka from the United Steelworkers and Jon Soltz from VoteVets also brought down the house. Tonight's general session, including nominations for our national officers, was a tremendous success.
Another tremendous success was our community service project with Democrats Work and Operation Homefront. Delegates assembled backpacks for the families of servicemen and women. The room was packed and the energy in the air was so moving. We heard from General Wesley Clark about the importance of service and the need to bring our troops home from the war in Iraq. Jon Soltz and WWE Superstar Chris Nowinski also spoke and honored our troops. Thank you to the organizers of the event and a big thank you to the families of our troops who sacrifice so much for all of us.
Trainings concluded today and, again, were very well attended (props to delegates). We also held caucus elections and regional meetings.
Tomorrow we will hear from some more exciting speakers, debate our national platform, and elect our new national officers!













The ads from VoteVets.org (represented by Jon Soltz were really powerful. I found the one about body armor on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8zQA1gYwpk.
Reply to Rob DolinI have to agree 100% with Alexandra. John Edwards did in fact bring down the house at the convention. What I saw at Dallas at the YDA convention are symptoms of a large Democratic victory in ’08!
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