Sitting inside the Pepsi Center, watching delegates dancing to the sounds of a funk band and screaming their heads off each time Barack Obama‘s name is mentioned, it’s hard to believe that outside, the cable news networks are talking obsessively about tensions between the Obama and Clinton camps. It’s one thing to train your camera on the spectacle of “PUMA” protesters wearing Clinton T-shirts adorned with McCain stickers, many of whom are registered and lifelong Republicans. It’s another to imply that these folks somehow represent Democratic delegates, or are the theme of the convention itself.

At the Hispanic Caucus this morning, I saw dozens of people with tears trailing down their cheeks as Hillary spoke. They were tears of pride — bittersweet tears, for sure — but not tears of anger or regret. Every single person was wearing an Obama button.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.