Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The children's crusade harks back--about 40 years back. In 1969, a few years before young voters embraced his presidential campaign, George McGovern spearheaded a rule that women, minorities and young people should be seated at the convention in proportion to their share of the population. It sounded great...
Since June, Gilbert-Pederson has been taking his own advice, making phone calls and going door-to-door for Obama in Minnesota, Iowa and New Hampshire. Balancing his social life and campaigning is a challenge, he says. At the convention, he hopes that e-mailing his constituents--those would include...
Sean Stimmel, 19, a delegate from Los Alamos, N.M., will miss the first three days of his sophomore year at New Mexico Tech to blog from Denver for friends and donors. A year ago, Stimmel never read political news, but after a neighbor pushed him to volunteer for Obama, he...
Anton Gunn is a first-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, and he has never so much as watched a political convention on television before. Even Barack Obama's famous keynote address in 2004 didn't grab his attention (he sheepishly admits he still hasn't...
Gunn cannot imagine what it will be like to be in Denver's Invesco Stadium watching the man he calls "the hip-hop candidate" become the first African American to accept a major-party presidential nomination. But he does know that he'll feel a sense of ownership. That, and...