democratic convention

Are Young Voters Taking Over The Party?

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week, walking around the speeches, panels and parties at the Democratic National Convention, it was clear that young voters are ascendant. Young people made up 16 percent of the delegates, a [...]

Palin Deflates Obama’s Bounce

Presidential nominees typically get a bounce out of successful conventions, and Sen. Barack Obama’s performance was a hit by any metric. (More on that later.) After a busy weekend, however, national polling shows that Obama got no bounce at all. Gallup:

Obama’s Convention Ratings Still Rising

Sen. Barack Obama’s convention speech may seem like old news, as Americans worry about Hurricane Gustav and the political class focuses on Gov. Sarah Palin and the GOP convention. Yet the number of people who have watched Obama’s speech continues to rise.
On Thursday, the TV audience was 41.9 million people. That’s more than double [...]

Obama’s Full Remarks

DENVER–At last, the speech. Perhaps it’s fitting that Sen. Barack Obama accept the nomination of the Democratic Party at Invesco Field, because his speech, his words have shared the build-up to a Super Bowl. At 7:11 pm Mountain Time, the Obama campaign finally released the full transcript of the candidate’s words which we’re pleased to [...]

Liveblogging: Gore at Invesco

DENVER — Here we go, Al Gore!
6:46pm: Gore comes out. Invesco is going nuts. He says if he was president we’d never have invaded Iraq.
6:48pm: Gore on McCain taking Bush’s 3rd term: “I believe in recycling but this is rediculous.”
6:49pm: Gore is fired up, looking thin, rested, comfortable and passionate. A great attack dog on [...]

How to Tell For Sure That You Are Rich

Daniel Gross at Slate checks in with a timely piece reminding us that people earn $250,000 or so a year are, in fact, rich. Gross feels the need to explain this because of the backlash over Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s tax plan, which calls for scaling back tax cuts for people earning more than [...]

Democrats Take On National Security

DENVER — At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, party leaders are including liberal ideals in foreign policy goals.