"John Cougar Mellancamp on the speakers... odd since Mellancamp rejected Mondale's use of his song back in 1984. To the podium to say for the upteenth time "I still believe in a country where the son of a mill worker can defeat the son of a president."

It's John Edwards. Attempting to refresh Hubert Humphrey's "Politics of Joy", and move it around to appeal to the supposed demographic swing-voter of the 2004 election the "Nascar Dad".