TAMPA, Fla. – Following the first full day of the GOP convention, a marathon of arcane procedures and polished testimonials, conventioneers and other hangers-on abandoned moribund downtown Tampa, striking out in search of respite from all the campaign rhetoric.

Their therapy of choice: singing and dancing.

Rocking the Suburbs

Whereas the ratio of men-to-women at most of these convention shindigs has skewed terrifyingly toward total sausage-fest, there appeared to be a noticeably higher concentration of the fairer sex trolling the Dallas Bull on Tuesday night.

Wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that pop rock pretty boy Gavin DeGraw was there belting out his greatest hits.