DNC Live Blog: Big Dawg, Elizabeth Warren, and the Roll Call Vote

There are plenty of women on tonight’s list of speakers so we should see if CNN has sacked Red State’s resident sexist “common tater” before the evening kicks off.

Wednesday night’s program includes progressives who have become prime targets of Republicans, like Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and reproductive rights activist Sandra Fluke. The Democrats will also defend their record on free enterprise with several businessmen — one of whom has ties to the Solyndra controversy. Ahead of the appearances at the Time Warner Cable Arena, conservatives are launching attacks against all three.

One of Congress’ most recognizable liberals, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, will take the stage this evening around 7 p.m. ET. Pelosi is so disdained by conservatives that her name is regularly invoked when conservatives want to cast other Democrats as too liberal and wrong-headed. The conservative outside group Club for Growth this week launched an ad attacking Democratic Senate candidate Joe Donnelly for voting for Pelosi to serve as speaker of the House.

While Pelosi has long been a favorite GOP target, conservatives have more recently zeroed in on Elizabeth Warren, the Senate candidate challenging Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the blue state of Massachusetts. Warren has been hailed as a champion of the left for helping President Obama establish the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, which was set up as part of the Wall Street regulatory haul.

A high school friend of mine–Laura Schory Copple–who now lives in Arizona has been keeping us up-to-date with pictures and anecdotes on her Facebook page. She mentioned the protestors today in one of her posts.

The crazies are out on every corner today and the Mounties from Atlanta are prepared for anything. They’ve brought in cops from every major city. Got word that Arpaio is on a plane headed here for an anti-immigration rally. Guys with bullhorns yelling at women to shut up ’cause that’s how god wants it. …. god told me last night that I would meet aa guy with a bullhorn today and to just ignore him.

It’s been fun to watch her be so excited about things including the platform which she considers ‘really cool’.

Meanwhile, the AP announces that the first night of DNC bests RNC in TV ratings race. I can only imagine what kind of numbers the Big Dawg will draw.

Michelle Obama has bragging rights over Ann Romney in one early measurement—television ratings.

The Nielsen Co. said about 26.2 million people watched the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, where the first lady was the featured speaker.

Last week, Nielsen said 22.3 million watched the first night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., where potential first lady Ann Romney talked about her husband, Mitt. The same number of viewers watched the Democrats’ first night in 2008, when Michelle Obama was also the featured speaker.

NBC had the biggest audience Tuesday night, followed by its cable sister MSNBC.

Meanwhile, racist Republicans aren’t even bothering to use dog whistles any more.  Here’s the latest from Rush.  BTW, wtf is a “typical white woman”?

Obama did not grow up in poverty. His grandmother, the typical, white woman, worked in a bank.

Don’t give me this down with the struggle business. He wasn’t down with the struggle. That’s the whole point. You go back to 2008, the Democrats were ringing their hands because he wasn’t authentically black. […] He wasn’t down with the struggle. He doesn’t have slave blood. […]

You want to know something funny?  Obama actually has “slave blood” from his mother’s side.

So, pull up a chair and let’s see what happens!!