I’m not familiar with the Wellstone event. I’ll have to look it up.
The Wellstone `memorial’ was an unscripted jamboree of partisan speeches with a giant beach ball bouncing over the crowd and invitations to Republicans present to become Democrats for Wellstone’s memory’s sake, but what it was not was a nonstop denunciation of the Republican incumbent, which the McCain event clearly was.
The WH offered to send Dick Cheney to the Wellstone memorial but the family refused.