The much anticipated speech of Sarah Palin really charged up the Republican Convention in the Twin Cities, but we didn’t learn a great deal about the candidate‘s solutions for all that she criticized about the Democrats.

Democrats say their presidential nominee, Barack Obama, can be competitive in Tennessee, but the most recent polling shows Republican John McCain’s widest lead in all 50 states can be found here.

“Jilted, jilted. I'm a flower whose wilted ...” sings Diana Devereux in George Gershwin's election musical “Of Thee I Sing.”

Row after row of buses pulled up to Invesco Field with delegates and DNC members. Many attending this historic event did not have the luxury of riding shuttles and had to walk for many blocks. The light rail was blocked off at the closest location for security reasons.

With 75,000 people watching in Denver, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, accepted his party’s nomination Thursday evening and made history.

For the first time in years, anti-abortion Democrats have been given a voice in the party’s national platform, says Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn.

Wednesday’s events were times of highs and a few lows.

The speakers on Wednesday included military person after military person. John Hutson, rear admiral, retired, shared his frustration with “arrogance abroad and incompetence at home” then offered that he was a former Republican inspired by Barack Obama’s ideals of unity and common purpose.

The Democratic National Convention is nothing if not fun. While there are serious moments with a job to be done, there are plenty of lighter moments. Two of the memorable light moments came for me Tuesday.

The Tennessee delegation has 85 members at the Democratic National Convention who range from a 19-year-old sophomore, Cody Goodman from Union University, to nationally elected officials, Reps. Lincoln Davis and Jim Cooper.

Union University student Cody Goodman is a Hillary Clinton delegate at the Democratic National Convention, but he said he has no problem supporting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as his party’s nominee.

Back in 2004, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was in Boston for John Kerry’s coronation as the Democratic nominee, staging a big hip-hop summit to draw new voters. This year, though he’s a Barack Obama supporter, he plans to sit out the Denver convention.

As the Platform committee presented the platform the co-chair of the committee, Honorable Patricia Madrid (attorney general of New Mexico) emphasized Democratic values of not condoning torture, valuing human rights (time to close Guantanamo Bay) and the complete unacceptableness of warrantless wiretapping.