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Wolverine voters

Posting for Amy Sullivan

We're back at the regular people portion of the evening (after a couple of bizarre Harry Reid shout-outs from Joe Biden). The first speaker was a Teamsters member from Michigan. I'm still looking up the numbers to confirm this, but I'm pretty sure that makes more average voters speakers from Michigan than from any other state. That's not surprising, given how close that state is expected to be in November and how much ground Obama needs to make up there after his self-imposed exile during the primary season.

On a related note, the Michigan and Florida delegations both have prime locations in the center of the stadium floor.

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