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Facing a major deficit, Democrats are scaling back on their convention...
Downgrades. Well, ain’t that a darn shame! With their convention just over two months away, the Democratic National Committee’s party planners are about $27 million smackers short of their fundraising...
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Abandon ship: Obama pal Claire McCaskill skipping Democratic convention
Distance. I don’t get it. Why wouldn’t a first-term Democratic incumbent up for reelection in an increasingly red state want a photo op with the Unicorn Prince? Claire McCaskill will not be attending...
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DCCC chair: Why are any Democratic House candidates going to the convention?
Save yourselves!! I assume Rep. Steve Israel wants to provide political cover for a handful of Democrats who have balked at attending their party’s national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina...
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Pelosi: House Democrats should skip the national convention
Women and children first? First, the good news, at least for House Democrats. Instead of running for the lifeboats to escape the debacle unfolding in Charlotte in the next few weeks, House Minority...
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Guess who else won’t be going to Tampa
Retirement It seems as if every time I see a headline saying that such and such person will not be attending either the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte or the RNC shindig in Tampa, it’s...
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A “You didn’t build that” convention?
Oh, please…. Could Democrats really be this tone deaf? For nearly two weeks, Team Obama has been reeling from his “you didn’t build that” comment — to the extent that Barack Obama himself had to cut...
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Great news: Author of “You didn’t build that” gets prime-time slot at...
Going all in. It’s not quite as good as getting the keynote slot, which will instead go to San Antonio mayor Julian Castro, but for Republicans, it’s pretty darned close to perfect. Democrats gave...
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New Warren ad: Golly, why aren’t we more like China?
You didn’t rebuild that. Suddenly, I’m getting more enthusiastic about watching the Democratic convention. The latest ad from the DNCC’s prime-time speaker compares America unfavorably to China,...
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Montana’s Democrat governor calls constituents white, racist rednecks
Schweitzer was star of ’08 convention Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer wowed the Democratic National Convention four years ago with a talk that Time called a “folksy, tough, funny, home-run of a speech.”...
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Huh: Democrats still not calling it the “Bank of America” stadium
Dodge. Heh. Democrats are trying to fill the seats at their upcoming national convention (wouldn’t want to court another embarrassing little scenario like the one at Obama’s campaign kickoff), but...
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Dem convention strategy: Find Republicans to talk about anything but the...
And the obvious counter-strategy is …. Politico apparently got a leak from the DNC or the Obama campaign that may end up backfiring on the Democrats. Three weeks out from their convention, Mike Allen...
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Great news: Treasury ups estimate of taxpayer loss on auto bailout to $25...
Let’s do this for every industry! Barack Obama has turned up the heat on Mitt Romney recently on the auto bailout. According to the strategy Obama rolled out last week, Democrats plan to highlight...
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Most transparent convention evah won’t release the names of its donors?
“The people’s convention.” It looks like the Democrats’ convention organization is taking a leaf out the Most Transparent Administration Evah‘s playbook, promising in advance that they’re going to do...
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PPP poll in MA shows Brown up five over Warren
Whoa. Well, what do you know — maybe there’s some hope for Massachusetts after all. Democratic pollster PPP applied a likely-voter test for the first time in the Bay State, and discovers that...
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Will the Dem convention be Abortion-palooza?
Plus, four keys for the GOP next week. With the recent face-plant of Todd Akin in Missouri, Democrats think they have hit on a winning theme for their convention in Charlotte. Agenda changes show...
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RNC chair criticizes networks for lack of convention coverage, hints at bias...
Programming. No coverage of the RNC on Monday night by networks, but the shorter three-day social-issues-palooza the Democrats are planning will be covered each night. Reince Priebus is not impressed:...
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Rasmussen poll shows few paying attention to conventions
Managing expectations for post-convention bounces. The big topic over the next few weeks will be the post-convention bumps for each candidate in the presidential race. Will Mitt Romney win some...
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Guess who’s coming to Charlotte?
Good swap. Republicans will have former Rep. Artur Davis speaking at their national convention this week — the man who served as Barack Obama’s national co-chair in 2008 and seconded his nomination at...
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Cardinal Dolan now delivering prayers at both conventions
Controversy over, or just beginning? Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the current president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, will be a busy man over the next two weeks. Dolan accepted an invitation...
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Democrats walking into “war on women” trap of their own making
How Democrats and Republicans see women. Do Democrats still plan to feature a “war on women” theme at their convention? If they do, I argue in my column today for The Fiscal Times, they may well find...
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Confirmed: Line-up of speakers at Democratic convention is simply terrible
Disappointment. Ace wrote about this yesterday but I didn’t have time to look at the list until now. Go see for yourself. I went through it being as objective as I could about who might be interesting...
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Dem convention, night one: Abortion, more abortion, Julian “Who?” Castro, FLOTUS
It’s time. Here’s the hourly schedule. Even by the dreary standards of this convention’s line-up, tonight is especially dreary. Put it this way: From 7 p.m. until 10, arguably the most interesting...
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DNC video: “Government is the only thing that we all belong to”; Update: Not...
Putting y’all back in chains. Yes, rest assured, Romney and the GOP are already working on ads about this. It’s the GOP that cut the clip and circulated it, in fact. Mitt himself evidently can’t wait...
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Politico’s VandeHei: ‘Mainstream media tends to be quite smitten with the...
No kidding. Analyzing the first night of the Democratic National Convention on a C-SPAN panel early Wednesday morning, Politico‘s Jim VandeHei admitted some of the praise for Michelle Obama may not be...
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Brooks: Man, these Democrats really love abortion, don’t they?
Cavils. Do they ever. Until the Democratic convention got into prime time, speaker after speaker went to the podium to hail the Democratic Party sacrament, to the point that one would have thought...
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Key Solyndra figures get red carpet treatment at Democratic convention?
My Little Cronies. Want to know what Barack Obama’s second-term agenda will be? Looking at the VIP admissions to the Democratic convention, the assumption will be more Solyndras and more wasted...
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DNC attendees: Yeah, it’s pretty awesome to belong to the government
Property of? Revealing Politics asked DNC attendees and delegates in Charlotte what they thought of one of the themes of the DNC promotional video that played in the arena last night— “The government...
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