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Hillary Clinton released her delegates, and the party is coming together behind its new leader. Reasons to celebrate and reasons to worry in Denver.
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The AP reports that the deal, as currently structured, would involve Hillary Clinton getting some votes before Barack Obama is nominated by unanimous consent.
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Reggaeton musician Daddy Yankee officially announced his support for John McCain at an event in Phoenix on Monday.
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The spot highlights Debra Bartoshevich, a delegate who lost her convention slot after saying she'd vote for John McCain over Barack Obama.
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Salon's Rebecca Traister and Caitlin Shamberg report from the scene that was the Pepsi Center on the eve of the convention's opening day.
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The spot uses Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World" to hit McCain for admitting that "economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."
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A fight is said to be brewing between the former rivals -- it focuses, in part, on the content of Bill Clinton's convention speech.
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The spot references George Obama's poverty and asks, "If Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn't he take care of his own family first?"
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Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one.
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Hillary Clinton is reportedly expected to tell her pledged delegates they're free to vote for Barack Obama.
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The party's credentials committee gives full votes to both states' delegations, which had been punished for holding early primaries.
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Clinton fires back at a John McCain ad invoking her words and images, and Joe Biden issues a video call to action.
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The energized vice-presidential candidate uses Saturday's rally to chain John McCain to George W. Bush and propel the Democratic ticket toward the convention.
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Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden made odd slip-ups in their speeches Saturday.
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By picking Joseph Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama chooses experience over hope.
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Nothing for sure yet, but all signs at this late hour on Friday night point to an Obama-Biden ticket.
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Badly twisting history, John McCain's campaign says Barack Obama should get a 15-point bounce from the convention.
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Watch for Salon's full convention coverage all next week, here and on Open Salon.
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Hillary Clinton has apparently barely made a dent in her campaign's sizable debt -- in fact, she raised only $2 million in July.
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The latest spot put out by Barack Obama's campaign takes a swipe at John McCain's many houses.
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One Democratic source says Hillary Clinton "was not asked for a single piece of paper" by Barack Obama's team.
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One reporter puts the proper perspective on the question of elitism in the presidential race.
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With a nasty ad, John McCain's campaign tries to shift the focus on to Barack Obama -- and Tony Rezko.
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One report suggests that John McCain has settled on former rival Mitt Romney as his running mate.
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Three veteran Democrats game out the Democratic and Republican conventions. Beware of PUMAs!
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:28am CST
5: Minimum number of miles of Denver's Interstate 25 scheduled to be shut down during Obama's Thursday speech at Invesco Field
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 4:15am CST
After weeks of speculation and pundit predictions, Sen. Barack Obama revealed that he had selected fellow Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate with an early Saturday morning text message and e-mail to supporters.
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Posted: August 24th, 2008, 1:50am CST
After the late-night suspense over the identity of Sen. Barack Obama's was broken, GOP Sen. John McCain's campaign wasted no time taking the Obama-Biden ticket to task.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 10:20pm CST
Delaware Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, selected as Sen. Barack Obama's running mate, brings to the ticket extensive foreign policy experience, a generally liberal voting record and a strong personality.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 9:15pm CST
Days of waiting and watching for a text message from the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama revealing who the Democratic hopeful's running mate would be came to an end in the wee hours of Saturday morning when phones rang and e-mail in-boxes filled with the news that Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware was Obama's pick.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 12:15pm CST
The bulk of the Kentucky delegation were elected due because of their support for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Now, with Clinton backing the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, the state party expects this diverse delegation to unite behind their party's presumptive nominee.
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Error-filled chain e-mails designed to scare voters away from Barack Obama are circulating widely on the Internet. Salon deconstructs a pair, one smearing the candidate, the other his wife.
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Nate Silver and Mark Penn argue that the conventions may be pageants, but they are pageants with payoffs.
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If anyone can make the case for Democrats' refocusing on the South it is Bob Moser, but the region that has really turned -- and keeps turning -- blue is the Northeast.
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Talk about your Freudian slips. Major wire service tells us how it really feels about Senator Sanctimony.
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After much anticipation as to when Gore would speak, the former veep gets an unusual and unusually potent spot: Thursday night.
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Finally, the senator realizes that sometimes he will need to show a bit of anger if he wants to win this thing.
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 6:08pm CST
Beyond readiness to assume the presidency, there are other things Obama needs to consider as he makes his veep decision.
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If McCain stole the cross-in-the-sand story from Solzhenitsyn he is not going to admit it, but he will express outrage at the insinuation and play the POW card, again.
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A correction to my original post about Jeremiah Wright's book publishing plans.
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No economic-populism-inspired revivals are going to turn the region blue. Virginia's Jim Webb is a lonely exception.
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The author of "Blue Dixie" says don't give up on the region -- but don't pander to it with Clintonian centrism.
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Evangelical voters simply can't vote for somebody who's pro-choice, Rick Warren tells BeliefNet -- after Obama's visit.
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Most of Rick Warren's churchgoers still back McCain, but praised Obama's "values." The weekend's big winner was Warren.
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Fishers of men need the right bait, and Rick Warren's television show had two presidential nominees on the end of the line.
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Warren gets defensive when pressed again about the "cone of silence."
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There's a new video about the real elitist running for president. But don't count on McCain ever being subjected to John Edwards-level personal scrutiny.
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The power play we saw at Saddleback proves that when it comes to self-regard the difference between preachers and politicians is a matter of style, but not degree.
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The New York Times has the key piece Monday about how the Obama camp will use the Democratic National Convention to recast its nominee in eyes of wary voters.
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It's not clear who won the Rick Warren evangelical grilling Saturday night, and maybe McCain cheated.
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Neither candidate speaks with much candor about solving the energy crisis. But the GOP will use U.S. oil drilling as a weapon against Obama.
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I admire Obama's courage in going to the Saddleback Church forum, but I regret he did it. I hope he doesn't come to feel the same way.
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The Democrat wanted to show he could compete for evangelical votes, too. Will he succeed?
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Posted: August 16th, 2008, 6:20am CST
The Georgia-Russia conflict has put the foreign policy skills of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to the test. Analysts Ruth Marcus and Rich Lowry weigh the candidate responses and other political news of the week.
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Posted: August 16th, 2008, 6:20am CST
The Georgia-Russia conflict has put the foreign policy skills of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to the test. Analysts Ruth Marcus and Rich Lowry weigh the candidate responses and other political news of the week.
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Posted: August 16th, 2008, 5:52am CST
Republican Sen. John McCain raised $27 million in July, his largest fundraising haul of his campaign as he tries to match the millions raised by Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama.
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Posted: August 15th, 2008, 12:00pm CST
TPT discusses final convention preparations with some of the people in charge of logistical planning for the four-day event. Cyndi Lesher is president of the host committe, Matt Bostrom is in charge of convention security for the St. Paul Police and Jayne Khalifa is coordinating convention logistics for the city of Minneapolis.
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Posted: August 15th, 2008, 7:58am CST
As minority communities weigh which presidential candidate would best represent them on key issues, some Native Americans are focused on whether the next president will continue to fund tribal schools that form the bedrock of their education.
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Posted: August 15th, 2008, 6:24am CST
The Democratic National Committee will place Sen. Hillary Clinton's name in the party's nomination roll call at its convention later this month -- a symbolic move intended to help unite Democrats after the hard-fought primaries, party officials announced Thursday.
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Posted: August 15th, 2008, 6:01am CST
As the diplomats scurry to cement a plan to curb tensions between Russia and Georgia by the end of the week, U.S. presidential candidates have weighed also in on the conflict in a bid to flex their foreign policy credentials.
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