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The easy stuff is still relatively hard, but at least it's entirely under the Obama campaign's control. Any non-incumbent's most important convention goal is to introduce the candidate to the country. (To paraphrase what was said about both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton when they launched...
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...
But in order to maximize his post-convention momentum, Obama has got to make sure that the manifestly bad feelings between his campaign and the Clinton team never rear their head in Denver. If any ill will enters the convention hall, there's a real danger that the rift could...
It's clear from last week's NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll that Obama still faces a good deal of skepticism from those Clinton backers; Denver is the place where fences will be mended and votes secured - or where disunity on the convention floor could become a threat to...
It's also time for Obama and the other convention speakers to give voters a more detailed sense of what he would do as president. These presentations need to be both detailed and poetic in order to answer the basic questions that even those paying close attention don't know...