May 24, 2013

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2012 Democratic Convention

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Democrats Reveal Their Plans If Mitt Romney Wins In November

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.11.2012 | Politics

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The November election is still two months away, and President Barack Obama's reelection is anything but certain. Yet Democrats are ...

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Joe Walsh To Sandra Fluke: 'Go Get A Job'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 09.09.2012 | Politics

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) took aim at Georgetown University Law graduate Sandra Fluke on Saturday, attacking her on the issue of birth control. In a...

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Villaraigosa: DNC Jerusalem Controversy 'A Lot Of Ado About Nothing'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 09.08.2012 | Politics

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Democratic National Convention Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa stood by his handling of the party's decision to change its platform on God and Jerusalem...

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Corporate Cash Ban Changes Face Of Democratic Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.08.2012 | Politics

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Barack Obama steamrolled into Denver in the summer of 2008, vowing to change the very nature of American politics as a four-day celebration coronated ...

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Obama: 'Climate Change Is Not A Hoax'

Posted 09.07.2012 | Green

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"Climate change is not a hoax," President Obama declared to a cheering crowd on Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention. Obama's decl...

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Fired Bain Worker Blasted As $100,000 Takedown Artist

Neil Katz | Posted 09.07.2012 | Business

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To hear the conservative blogosphere tell it, Randy Johnson is a $100,000 per year, heat-seeking missile that big unions and the Obama campaign have p...

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Obama: America Can 'Out-Educate And Out-Compete' Any Country On Earth

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 11.07.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. President Barack Obama had barely begun his acceptance speech at the De...

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Top Catholic Archbishop Prays At DNC, Alludes To Abortion And Gay Marriage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 09.07.2012 | Religion

Offering a benediction to close the Democratic National Convention, Cardinal Timothy Dolan largely stuck to a similar script as he did when praying in...

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101-Year-Old Voting Rights Activist At The Democratic Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 09.06.2012 | Black Voices

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On Thursday afternoon, an old lady in a wheelchair and her caregiver waited near the exit of the convention center here, delayed fr...

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Biden Video Paints VP As Middle Class Hero

Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

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An introductory video before Vice President Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention sought to cast him firmly as a success story of A...

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Dream Activists Enter the Political Mainstream

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 09.06.2012 | Latino Voices

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In 2010, Gaby Pacheco was a frustrated college student planning a 1,055-mile protest walk from Florida to Washington, D.C. The l...

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Sandra Fluke Doesn't Buy Bill Clinton's Claim Of Nerves: 'Sir. Please.'

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 09.07.2012 | Politics

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Girl's got some spunk. Newly minted Democratic star Sandra Fluke shared a moment with former President Bill Clinton backstage at the Democratic Na...

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Man Arrested Over Alleged Threat To Obama

AP | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A 21-year-old Charlotte man has been arrested by the Secret Service for allegedly posting threats to kill President Barack Obama on...

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Obama Aide Denies Reporter's Claim Of Being Kicked Out Of DNC

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 09.06.2012 | Media

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Valerie Jarrett, a top adviser to President Barack Obama, denies journalist Michael Tracey's claim that she or her staff had him re...

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Young Man With Two Moms Inspires Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.07.2012 | Politics

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Zach Wahls, who rose to Internet stardom with a moving plea before the Iowa legislature on behalf of gay marriage, spoke Thursday a...

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Storm Soaks Charlotte Hours Before Obama's Speech

AP | Posted 11.06.2012 | Green

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Not a single raindrop is falling from a nearly cloudless sky in Charlotte, N.C., as President Barack Obama begins delivering h...

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Billionaire Dispatches from the DNC: Day 2 (We're Buy-Partisan)

Clifford J. Tasner | Posted 11.06.2012 | Politics

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If we expect to protect our billionaire agenda from the tyranny of the majority, we need to cultivate some Democrats who will work tirelessly on our behalf.

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Michael Dukakis Recalls Delivering Acceptance Speech At 1988 Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- There are 13 people currently living who have given a primetime convention speech accepting their party's presidential nomination. ...

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WATCH: New Romney Ad Attacks Obama Using 2008 Clinton Comments

The Huffington Post | Adam Goldberg | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

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That didn't take long. Just hours after Bill Clinton's well-received Democratic National Convention speech, Republican presidential candidate Mitt ...

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Teachers' Union Leader: 'I Know We've Done Things Wrong'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.08.2012 | Politics

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It is a soul-searching moment for the teachers' unions. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)...

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DNC Spotlights Weak Union Presence In North Carolina

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

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Jenni Hembree remembers how demanding the guests were when she worked at the Holiday Inn Express in Charlotte, N.C., near Independence Boulevard. One ...

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Obama Abortion Stance Criticized In Ad Airing During DNC Broadcast

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

As a counterpoint to the cheers for reproductive freedom reverberating throughout the Democratic National Convention, the anti-abortion group Susan B....

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Duke Energy's Jim Rogers to Address DNC, Despite Supporting ALEC's Voter Suppression

Whit Jones | Posted 11.06.2012 | Green

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It's time for Jim Rogers and Duke Energy to dump ALEC. Thirty-eight major corporations have already left ALEC, so what is Duke waiting for? Mr. Rogers tells us that we'll know in "due time." That time is now.

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Meet The Biggest Fat Cat At The DNC

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Democratic National Convention is a pivotal event for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, his single biggest opportunity...

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