Three Parks Democrats

In a small storefront at 105th Street and Broadway, 50 local Democratic activists gathered Thursday night to watch the vice presidential debate in movie-theater screen proportions. Sitting among Barack Obama posters in the main room of their campaign base, members of the Three Parks Independent Democrats and the Broadway Democrats passed around Palin bingo cards and sipped wine from plastic cups.

Despite a demographic consisting largely of those 50 or older, the energy and excitement was equal to that of a school playground at Wednesday’s Three Parks Democrats meeting as Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation, took the floor.