As the Democrat convention kicks off today, media, protesters, delegates, and supporters all flooded into Denver city limits.
This morning, Dr. Rupp covered the convention for West Virginia Public Broadcasting, mentioning the key issues thus far: the role of Senator Joe Biden, and the question of party unity. Senator Obama chose the "traditional route" in selecting his vice president, with a "fill in the gap method: balancing age, balancing experience, and emphasizing foreign policy."
Further, Dr. Rupp adds that party unity is a high priority. "The push for unity will [indeed] be made, but how much?" It is to be determined how much Senator Clinton and her supporters
file in behind Obama and offer genuine support. Rupp adds that the West Virginia delegation is expected to follow the momentum at the convention, though West Virginia voted for Clinton overwhelmingly in the primary.
Source: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Dr. Rupp also contributed to the Wheeling Intelligencer
as well as West Virginia CBS affiliate WTRF-TV
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Personally I think that the emotion venting from the ranks of Clinton supporters reeks of a politically invalidated bitterness. I know that this particular feeling constitutes most political convictions in the minds of average constituents; however, it was the wish of these individuals to elect the first female president. When that scenario was not longer mathematically possible these voices had to turn the energy from a historically groundbreaking campaign trail toward something else. That something was getting Hillary on the ticket as a VP.
With the appointment of Senator Biden to that position under the blossoming Obama administration, it is in my profoundest belief that the prior bitterness will flower into a desire for unity and a conscious decision to keep, as one Democratic delegate from Georgia put it, “…four more years of Bush....” out of the oval office, or run the party into the ground. I guess we shall see.
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