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ST. PAUL, Minn.—Delegates and Harvard affiliates at the Republican National Convention applauded the Republican leadership's decision to cancel the festivities of the first day out of respect to victims of Hurricane Gustav, which is threatening the Gulf Coast.
"I'm glad to see that the focus of the convention has been shifted to remembering and supporting our fellow Americans who are in need of all of our prayers right now," Weatherl added.
There's also the political hazards of Gustav. At least one Democratic politician got himself into trouble trying to read divine intervention into the timing of Gustav's landfall. It was certainly remarkable, coming nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, and on the eve of the Republican National Convention's...
Party conventions, by their very nature, are supposed to be one of the few reliably scripted moments in a campaign. Democrats and Republicans alike spend years planning all four days of partisan posturing down to the smallest detail, in the hope that they can broadcast the perfect message before the...
The specter of the potentially devastating storm caused President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to decide to skip the Republican National Convention, which was supposed to begin Monday in St. Paul, Minn. The White House announced that Bush was heading to Texas Monday to monitor emergency response efforts, and...