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 More…
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:
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.
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 More…
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, More…
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 More…
DENVER — When last the Democrats decided to make national security a theme at their convention, biography was everything. John Kerry, the party’s 2004 nominee, was a bona fide war hero, and the campaign made sure everyone knew it. Starting with Kerry’s arrival at the FleetCenter from across Boston’s Charles More…
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