Listeners react to controversial changes to Democratic Party platform listen

Tags: DNC, Israel, Palestine, God, Democratic National Convention

Demonstrators fly a Palestinian flag in a June 2010 rally in Temple Terrace.

photo by Seán Kinane/WMNF

The Democratic National Convention is going on this week in Charlotte. We’d spoke about listener's thoughts about the speeches, the protests, or their experiences in Tampa during last week’s Republican convention.

Just before going to air, the Democrats passes two amendments to their party platform in a controversial voice vote.

The amendments put two provisions back into the platform that had been removed. One was a reference to "God." The other declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

There was also a debate about whether to vote for the lesser of two evils or to vote for an independent candidate instead.