I’m sitting here at the venue for tomorrow afternoon’s event: the Wadsworth Theater. It is … large. I think around 1500 people are going to be sitting in here tomorrow, judging me for the poor quality of my shoes and my neglected fitness regime.

I hear from the organizers that press attention has gotten nuts. There will be many dozens of press folk in the press tent tomorrow, from lots of national media outlets.

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If you watched the debate last night, you’ll have a sense of exactly what we want our event not to be. Wolf Blitzer asked a cavalcade of inane, gimmicky questions designed to … oh hell, what Matt said here.

Tomorrow, we’ll be talking about substantive questions of politics and policy. We’ll see how the media reacts.

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