It is the populist hour, at long last, at the Democratic convention. Indiana factory worker Barney Smith, whose job was shipped abroad, just told delegates we need "a president who will put Barney Smith ahead of Smith Barney." (The Obama staffer who thought of that one gets a high-five.) The real people who just testified to the convention were, with one exception, white working class (the other was a Latina). No yuppies, no professionals, no African Americans. The campaign surely has a clear idea of their target audience. Of course, the only network that covered these folks was C-SPAN. --Harold Meyerson
