A Month in the Life

I live in Nashville, TN. This city is abuzz with all the media and political types in town for tonight's presidential debate. The event is being held at Belmont University just a few miles from where I live. I have tried desperately to get a ticket only to be told that it is an exercise in futility.

The Curb Event Center, where the debate is being held, is a 6,000-seat auditorium; yet I am told that there will only be 500 people actually in the hall tonight. The two campaigns are allotted about 150 tickets each for their guests (meaning, I guess, major donors). Belmont has been allotted 50 tickets for students (which are being given out via a lottery). The Gallup Organization has chosen 80 to 120 "undecided voters" from the Nashville area who will be the questioners during this Town Hall style debate. And the remaining tickets are given to national sponsors, local and state dignitaries.

There are many debate-watching parties and events before, during, and after the main event tonight. I am attending one myself where I am assured that the only thing that will rival the riveting debate will be the delightful dishes. Food and politics...you know I'm there!

I hope to give you all some running commentary on the debate tonight between bites of exquisite Mexican cuisine and bottomless mugs of Diet Mt. Dew. This might be McCain's last opportunity to turn the tide on this race. The town hall format is certainly his forte. We'll see how it goes.

Tune in tonight for my take on the proceedings. Another site that I frequent during live political events is The Corner at National Review Online. Here you can see instantaneous reaction from some of the leading conservative media figures as they blog brutally honest reactions to what we are all witnessing. Check it out.

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