Standing in line for my press credentials on Monday was a cool experience. Journalists from around the world were jabbering in German, French, and Hebrew all around me while I waited in a line that snaked through the seventh floor of the Copley Westin Hotel in Boston.

All of us were browsing through the free publications we’d been handed on our way into the hotel as we waited. Then a chuckle started rippling through the line.

"Look at this," said the guy behind me, in a French accent, laughing.

The second section of the free Washington Post special DNC edition was dramatically headlined: DEMOCRATIC ELECTION 2000.

"What?"

"2000?"

"There’s your first story," the guy ahead of me correctly guessed with a laugh.