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...divisive, knock-down, drag-out affair. Not only is the party still licking its wounds from the tough primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but the Republicans are doing their best to stoke the tensions of race, gender, class and age exposed by the drawn-out contest...
Obama comes into the convention with the contest essentially tied after a recent McCain surge. Given that 2008 is a year in which polls suggest that the Democratic nominee should have the wind at his back, Obama must find a way to reassure the worriers in his party that he's got what it takes to win. One way to do that is to elegantly balance the convention rhetoric between a shower of love for Obama and a rhetorical beatdown of John McCain. Many Democrats believe that the party's 2004 convention spent far too much time defining John Kerry...
...Bill Clinton tells Charlie Rose that voting for Obama would require a "roll [of] the dice"--the first of a series of remarks that turn the Clinton-Obama contest into a two-on-one battle...
...moment for Obama. His strong start in the Iowa caucuses had surprised a lot of people and shown African Americans that his quest just might be possible. But then came the stumble in New Hampshire that allowed Hillary Clinton back into the race. South Carolina was the first contest in a state with a sizable black population--and on that day, African Americans gave him more than 8 in every 10 of their votes. "It all started here," Gunn said with a smile, leaning back in his chair in the lobby of a downtown Columbia hotel. "The process may have...
...course, not everyone sticks to six. NPR's On the Media held a 12-word-novel contest, which yielded several gems, including listener Brenda J. Wolfe's "My sister had written Father's obituary. He is survived by one daughter." The contest was held last November in honor of National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo...