Alec Baldwin walked into the Marriott ballroom and looked around. It was a pretty standard hotel ballroom. Here's a description: stained carpet, lots of over-stuffed chairs that were still uncomfortable, tables with tablecloths, a chafing dish full of greenish scrambled eggs, people with nametags, a beat-up looking podium. "Ah, I love the smell of politics in the morning," Alec Baldwin ...