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Friday, September 5, 2008

CMCers on the GOP Convention

You can get very different takes on the GOP convention from a couple of CMC alums who were there.

Clifton Yin was a McCain delegate. See his blog.

Adam Kokesh was a McCain heckler. See the account of his removal from the hall. See video:




Earlier, Adam spoke to fellow Ron Paul supporters:

1 comment:

EWeingart09 said...

GOP Convention was the most watched in history... 500,000 more people watched McCain's speech versus Obama's.

Polls are also super interesting right now as McCain/Palin are up 3-4% which means they had a 12% convetion bounce compared to Obama/Biden with an 8% bounce.