Turns out the forum was a gold mine for meeting people from other countries. Egypt was among them, and we met Ahmed and friends from Cairo. They had been integral pieces of the Arab Spring in Cairo and now were deeply involved in Egyptian politics. The group was sponsored by the US State Department to attend the convention, mainly to learn a bit more about how election nominations are run in our kind of democracy. Hillary knows her stuff.... The group came complete with interpreters contracted from Michigan (another swing state, by the way). They were feeding reports to both the Egyptian state media and Al Jazeera, the Arab news agency whose stateside studio was housed about an hour outside of Charlotte. I was told that was because there was no (affordable) room in the city inns.
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