After Party

Tonight the New York, Pennsylvania and Florida Delegations had a combined reception at Investco Field. We took a bus there, and must have driven five loops around the city before the bus driver found the entrance to the stadium. The bus situation is a real shame, because Denver has an excellent public transportation system, but has shut it down for the week for security concerns. The result is that thousands of delegates are spending hours on shuttle buses covering relatively short distances.

In any event, when we got to the arena, and took the escalator up to the reception, we heard the booming voice of former President Clinton, speaking to the gathering. He and Senator Clinton greeted delegates before making an exit and leaving for what I would imagine would be some much needed rest.

I was there for a while before I noticed that people were sneaking out to look at the stadium as it was being prepared for the big acceptance speech Thursday. I don't know if you get a sense from the video below, but walking out into that stadium at night was sort of a goosebumps kind of moment. I don't think the video quite encompasses the enormity of a 70,000 seat stadium
filled with empty seats, but people just sat quietly staring at it, realizing how big that moment will be Thursday night. It felt a little bit like looking out at the stars and realizing what a small part of the universe one is. Each of us has organized hundreds of people to work on this campaign, and yet, looking out on that stadium, I could not help but appreciate how much vastly larger this is than any one of our individual parts in it...