Democratic National Convention

Five takeaways from the last night of the Democratic National Convention

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:21:05 +0000

If you missed the last night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., we live blogged it here.

But if you want a quick review, we've compiled five things that struck us about the night:

Times Have Changed, Obama Has Changed, Hope Has Changed: The Obama we saw on Thursday was a more sober and realistic man than the one we saw in 2008, or for that matter than the one we saw in 2004, when he delivered a lyrical ode to American un

Fact checkers ding Obama and Biden for some spinning

Mark Memmott — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:17:36 +0000

"We heard some facts being spun" Thursday night when President Obama and Vice President Biden gave their acceptance speeches at the Democratic National Convention, report the watchdogs at FactCheck.org.

They and other independent fact checkers have compiled, just as they did at last week's Republican National Convention, a list of those things said by the two parties' standard bearers that don't quite add up or may give misleading impressions.

Our colleague Mark Stencel has Update at 11:08 p.m. ET.

Mo. Republicans respond to DNC speeches

Chris McDaniel — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:52:47 +0000

Several prominent Republicans responded to speeches given at the Democratic National Convention. Former Missouri House Speaker Catherine Hanaway accused Democratic leaders of stereotyping the issues women care about.

Five takeaways from Wednesday at the Democratic Convention

Eyder Peralta — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:29:11 +0000
If you missed the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., we live blogged it here.
But if you want a quick review, we've compiled five things that struck us about the night:
It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: In other hands, the very wonky speech that former President Clinton delivered on Wednesday could have been a snoozer.
The address was policy heavy and serious.