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Yes, there was a convention
More important, several local bloggers attended as delegates. Yet all I could muster up was one smallish item pointing to their blogs.
Should I have done more, like pointed to their specific entries on specific issues discussions? On the one hand, yay, here's an inside view from actual delegates. The McGovern Kid in me says, yay, vitally important stuff. On the other hand, it was a party issues convention. The snarky cynical shlub in me says: Who ever reads party platforms?
So the next time something like this happens, what do you think I should do?
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there was a Democratic State
there was a Democratic State Convention here last weekend?
Wow...Good to know...
My biased opinion
Clearly I'm biased because I was there and I blogged about it, but I think it would have been a good thing to talk more about. One of the things that the papers have been focusing on for the past week or so was what a big deal it was for the Dems to approve equal marriage rights. You'd think we spent the whole day just talking about that, when in reality it generated probably the least amount of controversy of anything. The big stories in the blogs that I've read focus not so much on the platform, but on the gubernatorial candidates (Galvin, Reilly and Patrick) and on the the changes to the charter that the state party rammed through. The charter stuff, in particular, is impossible to find in the news.
Still, some of that stuff might be too "inside baseball" for a general interest site like this one.
Convention Blogging
As Sco says, this is a general interest site. This isn't a political site, nor is it a news outlet. As you said, there were several other bloggers who covered the convention. If you reference their work in your blog, why are you behooved to do more? Interested parties will make the effort to peruse further.