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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Barack Obama could use his Veep announcement to drown out any lingering voices of unhappiness from Senator Hillary Clinton's army of convention delegates. A story on Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal reminds us that plenty of Clinton backers are not yet happy campers. They want to nominate their...
Journalists searching for news in Denver will find this theme irresistible. A modern convention is choreographed as if by Balanchine with scripts tight enough for Chekhov - and any brawl is more interesting than a coronation. Few know this better than the Clinton family, which had to deal with the bruised...
One problem: "It doesn't leave much time to integrate the running mate into the campaign and get them up to speed," says veteran Democratic convention planner Michael Berman. With the convention already pushed almost to Labor Day, a slow-starting No. 2 might not be fully deployed, with staff...
Also, naming a running mate in the glare of a convention can be risky, as George H.W. Bush learned when he introduced a bouncingly boyish Dan Quayle to skeptical reviews during the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans. It's probably no coincidence that after that experience, G.O.P. candidates joined...
In 1984, however, Democrat Walter Mondale found himself in need of a miracle against incumbent President Ronald Reagan. Mondale, who joined Carter's ticket on the third day of the 1976 convention, broke with traditional timing by naming Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate a week before the party gathered...