Word: conventionalized
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I asked MURS, a rapper (and a Democrat) who's performing in Denver with Will.i.am, about the two-party music gap. He said it's all about whether the candidate makes a connection. "There are some dope emcees who would perform at the Republican Convention, but not for McCain," he...
As their convention in Minnesota gets under way, Republicans are feeling a little better. Barack Obama hasn't blown the presidential race wide open, as many expected. The McCain campaign's charge that he's a celebrity, not a tested leader--widely mocked at first--seems to have caught on...
The best politicians tend to be complex people. But most of them camouflage their complexity because voters--especially presidential voters--are not usually enamored of nuance. John McCain is a complex man--ironic and earnest, driven and fun-loving, self-assured and self-deprecating--but his concern with honor is...
Obama's convention was largely an internal affair. In Minneapolis, John McCain faces a different dilemma. He must reach outside the Republican base and win over ornery independents as a different kind of Republican. Can the GOP put on a different kind of convention?
Minneapolis is McCain's great chance to define himself to these folks. Ticket splitters eschew partisanship. They don't trust any one party to have all the power. They are happy with divided government, so long as that government can deliver results. The convention's hammering on Obama should be...