Give preferential seating to Alaska and Guam, while shafting the Lone Star State.

A network television interview platform stands directly in front of some of the Texas delegates on the lower rows of the Pepsi Center.

The state banners for Guam and Alaska partially block others.

And while the view of the podium is better for the delegates seated above Row 13, there's no doubt that the Texas delegation is about as far from the center of action at the Democratic National Convention as it can be.

That makes some of the delegates from the Republican red state of Texas blue.

"I think we're being punished for being a red state," said delegate Reynaldo Trevino, of Lyttle. "The consensus is: The closer you are, the more important you are."

Keisha Smith, of Victoria, said that sitting on the bottom row of the delegation gives her the opportunity to watch famous people walk by, but not much of anything else.

"The only worse thing would be to sit outside and watch it on a big screen," she said.

Maybe smaller delegations were easier to fit onto the convention's floor than the 260-person Texas delegation, said state Rep. Joe Deshotel, of Beaumont.

"I would hope they aren't putting more emphasis on Guam and Alaska," Deshotel said.

State Rep. Aaron Peña, of Edinburg, said the delegates should be moved to the front because they work hard to promote the party despite three decades of losing presidential elections. "We're the true believers, the die-hards," he said.

I'm curious -- is it that Texas is very red? Or could it be the high number of Hillary Clinton delegates that this state sent to Denver?

Either way, the message from Obama and the Democrats is pretty clear -- Texas and its electoral votes just don't matter to them.

One more reason, my fellow Texans, to vote for John McCain.

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