The Democrats entered the convention looking for unity, but by the end of Hillary Clinton’s speech, it was clear that the real result of the party-saving efforts was nothing more than a promotion of unison.

Her speech hit all the right marks—plugging the party platform, paying respect to the hard work and dedication of her 18 million supporters, pegging John McCain with some deliciously snarky attacks—but it wasn’t by any means a magic potion to bring the stragglers on board. Sure she came out and said the words we were waiting for—“Barack Oama is my candidate. And he must be our President!” But she didn’t say anything particularly revolutionary or unexpected. And it didn’t really seem to matter much: Everyone I talked to was drinking the KoolAid in the Pepsi Center Tuesday night.

Roaming the arena, I was hard-pressed to find any Hillary supporters who hadn’t already traded in their HRC hat for a Barack-Biden pin by the time Clinton took the stage. Whether they had studied the Party memo or just picked them up watching the endless blabber on the cable networks, the talking points saturated the speeches leading up the HRC’s prime-time address and edged their way into conversations with convention-goers.

Saying the same thing certainly isn’t paramount to sincerely subscribing to the same beliefs. Just because Hillary performed up to par doesn’t mean the party’s problems are solved. We’ll be out on the streets and in the Pepsi Center today, looking ahead to tonight’s Roll Call vote and searching for some real responses as to what (if anything) Hillary’s words did for the Dems.

Tags: hillary clinton, Pepsi Center, speech, unity