Topic: Democratic National Convention

Volunteers

Aspects of the topic Volunteers are discussed in the following places at Britannica. The best onstage document of their approach, Bless Its Pointed Little Head, was one of two album releases in 1969; the other, Volunteers, was a call for youth revolt, ...
Billionaires, Wall Street and labor unions poured $118 million into political conventionsFinancial giants now being bailed out by the government spent millions underwriting the Democratic and Republican conventions last summer, just weeks before coming to Washington begging for multibillion-dollar handouts.The big donors ...
Convention delegates, visitors pack Denver pedestrian mall; businesses report mixed salesStrains of a saxophone soloist's jazz melody drifted through crowds of delegates and visitors strolling along a downtown pedestrian mall Tuesday as vendors hawked food, art, candles and, of course, Democratic convention ...
70 Days to the Election: Voice firm, ailing Kennedy tells Democratic convention 'the dream lives on'___Clinton nudging supporters toward ObamaDENVER (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton, formally abandoning her presidential dream for now, is urging her supporters in a fractured Democratic Party to do ...
TV One setting up shop at Democratic convention, not GOPTV One, the cable network aimed at African-American viewers, will cover Barack Obama's nominating convention but is ignoring John McCain's.The network is telecasting live, prime-time coverage of the Democratic convention in Denver Aug. ...

On the Blog Again

You don't have to believe that the weekly column is an obsolete form to feel the digital imperativeespecially if, like me, you used to blog every day as I did five years ago for Salon.com, my other home. So now I'm on ...

The Bounciest Convention

Kornacki says the 1992 Democratic convention was the most successful in boosting the nominee in the polls--and 1968 was the least. Copyright 2008 The New York Observer

Silence please for the real election drama

The introductory call of Roanoke's No Shame Theatre is that it's a place where " One woman had a puppet monkey she called George - as in George Bush - and a bag full of different hats. Todd Ristau, the founder of ...
In a big indication that we're only beginning the social revolution for politics and that RIAs will play a big part, CurrentTV is going to be doing live streaming and a real-time overlay of Tweets using Flash. The broadcast will be available ...
Sarah Palin, hockey mom, Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee, can add one more thing to her resume: Curiosity running high, Palin grabbed a massive 37.2 million television viewers with her 37-minute speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, according ...