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At least they have Bill
And the architect of the wildly popular "you didn't build that"
Yikes
Keynote: Julian Castro
Joe Biden
Cory Booker
Bill Clinton
Charlie Crist
Rahm Emanuel
Sandra Fluke
Tim Kaine
Caroline Kennedy
Mic e Obama
Martin O'Malley
Elizabeth Warren
At least they have Bill
And the architect of the wildly popular "you didn't build that"
Charlie should deliver us enough Florida votes to win the State
he should be effective enough top appeal to the elderly independents to help them see past republican lies, obstructionism, and flat out treason
That's a pretty solid lineup tbh.
Groomin Castro for a senate run.
And no celebrity guest appearances bringing the awkwards.
"you didn't build that"
How's that Fox Repug Propaganda Kool-Aid going down? substantial and nourishing? makes you smarter or dumber?
Lol @ fake enthusiasm
I guess they have to let Biden speak?
Why do democrats always feel they have to let Caroline "You Know" Kennedy speak?
Just looking at that lineup puts me to sleep. Who honestly doesn't already know the empty crap they are all going to say? Empty promises, lies, pandering, exaggerations and pretending to be tough and caring. But none will come to fruition because they lost their backbone long ago.
Sad they are using a Kennedy to speak just to try to give themselves some credibility when this fraud of a President has never been, is not, and never will be anything remotely close to what JFK or RFK ever was, not in his dreams. What an insult. But the crowd and morons across the nation will cheer as if he is, being fooled by words just like words fooled them 4 years ago. In the end we will just get more dead children in the world, more of a police state, more NDAA...and more of the right dictating what they want him to do and him following orders because he's a weak sellout piece of sissy excuse of a President.
The only one I'm interested in listening to is Julian Castro (which is only being used for the Latino vote), but seriously, they already told him what to say, so I don't even know why I'm looking forward to his speech. I guess I have hope that a young new guy will have some real honest ideas and care about doing something for this country, but who am I kidding? Hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. He'll owe Obama for giving him the stage, so that can't end well in the long run. Hope I'm wrong on Julian. I root for him to be a good guy. We shall see.
Last edited by SA210; 09-02-2012 at 11:55 AM.
"The only one I'm interested in listening to is Julian Castro "
Same here, but only because he is local. Pretty tall order (keynote) for such a greenhorn.
I actually think he'll do a great job and impress. But his words will be in support of Obama and that will be excruciating to listen to. But I know he's doing it to advance his own political career. Good for him, I guess.
Obama turns to technology during convention
When the Democratic Party's national convention opens this week, President Barack Obama's target audience won't be in the crowd. It will be the small sliver of undecided voters in battleground states who will be critical to the outcome of what the polls show is a tight race with two months to go.
Obama's campaign will turn to technology to get some of those voters engaged in the convention. The campaign will stream the entire event online, incorporate voter comments into the feed, and have convention attendees interact electronically with those watching on the Internet and mobile devices.
It's an attempt to recapture the Obama team's insurgent, grassroots appeal from 2008, when the campaign set new standards for using technology in politics. The high-tech engagement also helps the campaign capture data on voters that can be used for registration drives and get out the vote efforts.
Targeting Hispanics, the convention will be streamed online simultaneously in Spanish. Obama is hoping his sizeable advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney with Hispanics will help him win key battleground states in the West, as well as Florida and Virginia.
Republicans also streamed much of their convention on YouTube, though the feed was not interactive.
The move to online streaming comes as television networks cut back on their convention coverage. TV viewership was down during last week's Republican convention; about 30 million people watched Romney's acceptance speech, compared to 40 million who saw Sen. John McCain accept the GOP nomination in 2008.
Starting Tuesday, a parade of high-profile speakers will stand on a blue-carpeted stage in Charlotte's Time Warner Cable Arena to vouch for Obama's economic agenda, which his team says is focused on the middle class: ending tax cuts for the rich and reducing the debt, while spending more on education, energy and infrastructure.
Several voters — called "American Heroes" by Obama's team — also will speak at and appear in videos at the convention, putting a human face on Obama's program.
The Democratic National Convention starts less than a week after Republicans gathered in Tampa, Fla., to nominate Romney as the party's presidential candidate. Democrats hope that by holding their convention second, Obama can emerge with momentum on his side as the race for the White House bounds into its final stretch.
Obama will largely be responsible for generating that momentum. He will close the convention Thursday night with a speech in an outdoor football stadium, just as he did in 2008. Mindful of the comparisons to four years ago, Obama's campaign is scrambling to ensure that the 74,000-seat stadium is filled to capacity. The largest crowd Obama has drawn during the 2012 campaign is about 14,000 people, far less than the jaw-dropping crowds he attracted in the 2008 campaign.
Aides say Obama won't ignore the economic woes that have defined his four years in the White House. But they say he plans to focus largely on the future, and why he believes his policies will succeed in a second term.
Obama isn't expected to outline any new policy proposals. Instead, he plans to make the case for continuing what he has started. And he is expected to double down on agenda items, such as immigration and tax reforms, that gained little traction during his four years in office.
"When the convention is over, folks with be left with a clear road map of where he thinks America needs to go," said Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager. "And it will be clear what his focus will be in an Obama second term."
Working against Obama: the nation's 8.3 percent unemployment rate, sluggish economic growth and fears the economy could slip back into a recession.
There's also a general malaise. An Associated Press-GfK poll conducted earlier this month showed 60 percent of registered voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction, while just 35 percent say it is heading in the right direction.
The convention opens Tuesday with first lady Mic e Obama, whose popularity far surpasses her husband's, as a featured speaker. San Antonio, Texas, Mayor Julian Castro also is slated for that night. He will be the first Hispanic to deliver the Democratic convention's keynote address. Their roles on the convention's opening night are part of Democrats' efforts to shore up support among women and Hispanics, two crucial voting blocs where Obama holds an advantage over Romney.
Mrs. Obama is expected to make the case that Obama is the best candidate to advocate on behalf of the middle class because he has experienced their struggles himself.
Many voters already have heard Mrs. Obama's stories about her husband being raised by a single mother and his grandparents or having struggled to pay off student loans.
But she is emphasizing them again in this campaign in hopes of drawing a contrast with Romney's privileged upbringing.
Polls show voters think Obama understands the economic issues that are important to them better than Romney, even though the Republican has an edge on who voters believe is better suited to manage the economy.
Former President Bill Clinton, who is emerging as one of the campaign's most effective surrogates, will headline the convention Wednesday and formally nominate Obama. He hopes to remind voters of the flush economy he presided over and make the case that Obama's policies will lead to similar results.
Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry will address the large stadium crowd Thursday night before Obama speaks.
Kerry, seen as a potential second-term secretary of state under Obama, will try to capitalize on the Democratic Party's rare advantage on national security issues. He is expected to trumpet Obama's decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and the president's plan to end the Afghanistan war, a sharp contrast to Republicans who rarely mentioned the war during their convention or the tens of thousands of troops still engaged in combat.
Obama's young daughters start school in Washington next week and are not expected to have a formal role at the gathering. But they could come to Charlotte Thursday night for their father's acceptance speech.
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Conventions aren't for appealing to the other side of the spectrum. They're for solidifying the base and occasionally for reaching out to independents.
By nature of the fact that there are no "mystery speakers" who turn out to be senile actors with unprepared speeches, this convention is already better than the Republican one.
Ever wonder why the Repugs had NOBODY from dubya/ head's disastrous epoch speaking last week?
Maybe, but I don't see how that makes a point for you. A lot of people disagree with him for very valid reasons, his empty rhetoric is boring and tired. His weakness versus the Republicans is a disgrace. His bombing of innocent families is unforgivable. Maybe some people aren't fools and people already know what they are getting, including many voters in the party.
Because they suck too
Somebody should've told Clint what to say.
Meh, Clint neither helped or hurt
Entertaining, if only for its weirdness
"Clint neither helped or hurt"
Clint was supposed to help, and Gecko needs a LOT of help
Clint did hurt himself, at least to younger viewers, and he did hurt the convention by taking up time in the 1 hour of national broadcast coverage than could have been used MUCH better.
Sept. 1: Romney’s Convention Bounce Appears Middling So Far
The Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. received mediocre television ratings — and the polling data so far suggests that it may produce only a modest bounce in the polls for Mitt Romney.
The most favorable number for Mr. Romney is from the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll. That survey showed him pulling into a 3-point lead against President Obama on Saturday. All of the interviews in the Rasmussen poll were conducted after the convention began, although only about one-third were conducted after Mr. Romney’s acceptance speech on Thursday night.
The Rasmussen poll represents a 5-point swing toward Mr. Romney from the polling firm’s final survey before the conventions, when it had Mr. Obama ahead by two points. But it does not read quite as strongly for him as compared to the long-term average of Rasmussen polls, which have had Mr. Romney ahead by about one percentage point on average over the past 60 days.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes...er=rss&emc=rss
Rasmussen!
When will they repeat their 2008 prediction a few weeks before the election that the Repug ticket would win in a landslide?
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-02-2012 at 01:59 PM.
Seems no better or worse than what the Republicans had to offer. I'll be interested to hear what Castro and Booker have to say as they are the future of the Democratic Party. I'm sure Clinton will give a good speech.
That's only because their senile guy with an unprepared speech is the Vice President, tbh.....
They should include an empty chair that "speaks to" a cardboard cutout of Romney. The voice of said chair should be that of Samuel Jackson.
I'll be interested to see the underlying theme across the DNC. It was clear the RNC goal was to "humanize" Romney and harp on Obama's failure while talking in generalities about their plan.
How much of the convention will focus on the president's successes? Future plan? The "other guy's" outdated ones?
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