Saturday's DNC Rules Committee Meeting

Being the dork I am, I will be spending part of this Saturday watching the DNC Rules Committee meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting will be of interest to many following the Democratic Primary cycle, as this meeting may ultimately decide the fate of the delegates from Michigan and Florida.

Although I'll be watching it at home, tickets to the actual event were snapped up as fast as those at a Rolling Stones concert.

It promises to be the highest-profile gathering of Democratic heavyweights until the summer nominating convention – and shaping up to be a harder ticket to come by: this Saturday’s Washington meeting to debate the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations is officially the toughest ticket in town.

The members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee – the panel weighing how both states should be represented at the convention in Denver – will meet very publicly, at a hotel site ringed with protestors and satellite trucks. Inside, they’ll be joined by a swarm of political journalists – and a few rank-and-file Democrats. Only about 300 people – including RBC members, press and public — will be allowed inside.

But hundreds of Democrats eager for a front-row seat to history found themselves out of luck today, as the party’s online registration system for the spots available to the public was overwhelmed at 10 a.m. ET, when it opened. All available seats were claimed in about a minute.

The Clinton campaign is supposedly bussing in supporters to protest the event, while the Obama campaign is asking that its supporters participate in a voter registration drive instead. I'll be watching from the comfort of home.