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Sizing up why DNC is different this year

September 4, 2012 10:19 PM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

North Hempstead Town Supervisor, Jon Kaiman attends the

Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | North Hempstead Town Supervisor, Jon Kaiman attends the New York State Democratic delegation breakfast at the Doubletree, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Sept. 4, 2012)

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Change has come, all right -- to the early tone of the Democratic convention.

North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, a delegate here, acknowledged "something different in the air" from the party's historic 2008 gathering in Denver.

For one thing, Kaiman, like most of the state's other elected Democrats, was chosen four years ago as a delegate for failed candidate...

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