Desert Trail

Henderson, Nevada

AFTER THE DEBATE last night, Hillary Clinton held a rally at Desert Pines High School in suburban Las Vegas. It was a sizable event with more than a thousand people packed into the gym, even at 9:00 at night.

Clinton emerged, flanked on stage by 21 women (and no men). Chelsea was there, as was the campaign’s omnipresent Ann Lewis. She was introduced by America Ferrera, the star of the ABC show Ugly Betty, which is adapted from a Colombian soap-opera called Betty la Fea (if her other teen celebrity endorser, Amber Tamblyn was there, I didn’t see her). To complete the pander, Clinton scrapped her usual intro music and emerged to a song that sounded very much like the work of Gloria Estefan.