Assessment of Day 2 of Democratic Convention
31 Dec 2025 · 3 min
A short podcast commentary (July 27, 2016 upload) by TJ Walker analyzing Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention. Walker assesses the event’s packaging, branding, entertainment value and speaker performances—highlighting Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders’ role in the nomination, Meryl Streep, and Alicia Keys—and argues that the Democrats staged a superior entertainment-focused show that may influence polls modestly.
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So how did day two go of the entire Democratic convention from the standpoint of packaging information, branding, entertainment, I have to believe the Democratic Party, the Hillary Clinton campaign was extremely pleased. Their big objectives, showing a very positive experience for her official nomination. That happened. Very smart tactic of getting Bernie Sanders to be the one to pushed the vote count over and then asked for a claim of all the delegates to support her. Really created a strong positive feeling within the Democratic Convention hall. And it was good for TV cameras too. So the official nominating process went very smoothly. It didn't have all the negativity of the disruption of the first day or the weekend leading up to it. Beyond that, most of the speakers were fantastic. I mean, I defy anyone who has serious intentions of helping the Democrats to point out how, for example, Bill Clinton could have done a better job in his speech. A couple of the speeches were a little flat. The senator from Minnesota, I think was commented on in a previous commentary here, yelling the whole time. But overall, Howard Dean did a great job, brought the house down with laughter. You had prominent prominent entertainment, world class entertainment leaders like Meryl Streep, Alicia Keys, so it was great entertainment with Alicia Keys music ending the night. You had top tier Hollywood royalty like Meryl Streep. And you could say, well teach you why does the entertainment stuff matter? Well, that's been one of the prime minister reasons for Donald Trump is he's a great communicator because he was a success in the entertainment field. Let's face wasn't a success in the casino industry, but he was a legitimate success in the entertainment world of reality tv. So entertainment packaging, putting on a big show was supposed to be Trump's biggest strength. And for the Democrats to put on a better show I think is something that pleases them immensely. Time will tell if any of this shows up in the polls. And if it does show up in the polls, is it a temporary blip for a day or week and then it fade away or long term, does it help 2 or even 1%? If it does that, it has accomplished its objective. I'm TJ Walker. Post your comments. What did you think of day two of the Democratic convention?
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