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...Elaine Lancaster, the 6-ft. 2-in. drag queen who is the hostess of the club, says she approves of Reno's moves. "Tonight she looks great in black," she says of Reno's suit skirt. "It's all about fashion." Reno's younger sister Maggy Hurchalla is equally impressed. "She can make her feet move. I just pretend," she says. "Jeb can probably dance better than Janey and I can. He's conventional...
...ruin that dream, buying them round after round. By the time the music stops and a Reno campaign ad comes on the giant video screens, putting a bit of a damper on the already struggling atmosphere, my new friends have climbed onto a huge plastic stage, where they gyrate to the ad. When Reno finally hits the stage, the newly converted Nicole is screaming, "Reno rocks!" over and over, so I miss a lot of the speech, but it seems to have something to do with wanting to improve the state of Florida...
...Reno leaves, but before I know it, she has returned to the stage, where she does a kind of stand-still-and-clap thing that makes Al Gore seem like Jackie Wilson. Oddly enough, she isn't doing a particularly good impersonation of Will Ferrell's impersonation of her. I leave my friends behind and rush the stage to try to dance with Reno, only to find myself in a small crowd of men living the same fantasy. When I finally push my way past them, she is gone...
...After five minutes of clapping and wind-up-toy arm swings, Reno has left the stage to give a press conference upstairs. She faces one of the largest press gatherings, by far, of her campaign. "At some point," Reno says, "the beat became so pronounced it made you dance." The woman naturally talks in James Brown lyrics...
...Conventional is what the four high school kids protesting outside the club want. One of them, Fred Moffat, 17, holds a sign that says, "That's not a woman, it's a man, baby!" His friends are equally passionate in their anti-Reno sentiments, except possibly the one with a sign that says, "Honk if you like cookies." "I've hated her ever since the Elian case," says Moffat, who skateboarded here. "But I think it's good she can poke fun at herself. The SNL thing was hilarious." Dancing, especially really bad dancing, really does bring the world together...