Unlike at the Republican convention, there will be no dissenting votes at the Democratic convention.

President Obama is slated to receive the vote of every single credentialed delegate attending the Democratic convention, party officials say.

The vote will be "unanimous," DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse confirmed in an email.

Though several perennial and long-shot candidates (including a convinced felon) won enough votes against Obama to qualify for delegates, none of them filed the proper paperwork to earn delegates at the Democratic convention.

The main drag through downtown Charlotte looked a bit like Times Square on Sunday night, as revelers and out-of-towners converged to gawk at the flashing city around them.
The electric scene before the start of the Democratic National Convention belies the trouble under the surface.
For Democrats, North Carolina was an awkward choice and represents some of the challenges President Obama faces this Election Day.

Democrats tried to massage their message a day before their convention after struggling to come up with a definitive answer on whether voters would feel that they were better off since President Barack Obama took office.
Brad Woodhouse, communications director for the Democratic National Committee, said on CNN's "Early Start" on Monday that Americans were "absolutely" better off than four years ago, portraying the president as a pilot who saved a crashing plane.