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I'm off to the convention this afternoon. Sort of. I mean, I won't actually be attending the convention itself. Fired Up got the credentials for a state blog from Missouri (only one blog per state got them).
It's OK with me, though, that I won't be on the convention floor. If I were, I could listen to the same speeches you can hear on TV. What I'll do instead is have breakfast each day with the members of the Missouri caucus at their hotel, see what sort of insights and news I can pick up there. Then I'll go to the Big Tent, a two story tent that's been erected three blocks from the Pepsi Center, which is where the convention is being held. The Big Tent literally is a tent, but an exceptionally strong one, with AC.
The Big Tent is for bloggers, and I think that's where it'll be happenin'. Bloggers do more than cover the stories. They're coming to wield some power by shaping opinions, and because of that they are part of the story. We've been told that members of the traditional media will be coming to the tent to cover that aspect of the campaign.
Not that I figure I wield much more influence than a minnow in Lake Erie, but you take a few thousand of us minnows, feed us regularly, and we start to have some heft.
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