Articles filed under Political Conventions
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Variety of tools let you direct political coverageAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Say what you will about the individual candidates, it is going to be an interesting election campaign season. The two key presidential candidates are smart and articulat...
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Suburban natives land gig on big national stageAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Even they don't quite know how it came about, but a Denver-area band featuring two natives of Chicago's suburbs takes the nation's biggest stage today: performing at Inv...
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Democrats make history, officially choose Obama as nomineeAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER -- Barack Obama swept to the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night, a transforming triumph that made him the first black American to lead a major par...
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Does Obama have that Kennedy appeal?Aug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - Munching on ham, eggs and a bagel, Tom Jolly sat at a quaint diner in the city's downtown area reading a newspaper and anxiously waiting to hear Barack Obama de...
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Full text of Barack Obama's speechAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation: With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nominatio...
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Duckworth blasts McCain over military policyAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - Iraq war vet Tammy Duckworth blasted John McCain over military policy in a prime-time Democratic convention speech that featured the Hoffman Estates politician ...
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Illinois' Clinton supporters begin to shift toward ObamaAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - Following Hillary Clinton's convention speech that urged Democratic unity, most of her Illinois backers are working to close ranks and have already planned a fu...
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Duckworth to speak on veterans issues at conventionAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - Since losing her bid for Congress, Hoffman Estates resident Tammy Duckworth has kept in the spotlight as a spokeswoman for veterans as well as Democrats. Wednes...
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Democrats laying groundwork to capture more Congressional seatsAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - One of Jan Schakowsky's biggest applause lines as she addressed Illinois Democratic delegates Monday, came when she declared, "In 148 days, George Bush no longe...
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WBBM chooses Barack over BearsAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - All-news WBBM 780-AM, the Bears' flagship radio station, will break into the exhibition game at Cleveland tonight to air Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech...