Barack Obama’s campaign officials were publicly expecting between a 10 and 12 point bump coming out of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. These estimates are low, because of what is known as the “expectations game” in which you aim low and then blow everyone out of the water with how unbelievably awesome you are.

Today’s Rasmussen Poll puts Obama up three points over McCain.

This convention is so unbelievably full of fail. I’m a wakko that eats, drinks, and sleeps politics. This? This is boring. At one point during Biden’s speech, the cameras cut over to a crowd reaction shot … and caught some guy on his cell phone.

Yesterday, the Russian parliament passed a non-binding resolution requesting that Medvedev declare to two provinces under conflict in the region as independent countries. The western powers “strongly urged” Medvedev not to do so. Strongly urged? What the hell is that?

Today was the first day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. This post is a summery of the events and speakers for the day.