The latest news, photos, video and opinion coverage of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Accepting his party's nomination for re-election, President Obama on Thursday said voters face the most momentous election of a generation and told them they must choose between locking in his vision of a government that works to boost the most vulnerable, or side with Republicans in rolling back his agenda. Published September 6, 2012
By Charles Hurt
There is nothing sadder than a politician without his balloons. It's like a cowboy, hair slicked down, without a hat. It's especially sad when the cowboy was all hat and no cattle to begin with. Published September 7, 2012
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
When President Obama moved his Thursday night acceptance speech from Bank of American Stadium to an indoor arena, the star-studded entertainment moved with him, giving the fortunate few delegates and special guests an intimate evening with some of the superstars of music. Published September 6, 2012
By David Hill - The Washington Times
Four years ago, Wisconsin Democrats controlled the governorship and both U.S. Senate seats and turned out in overwhelming numbers to help elect President Obama. Published September 6, 2012
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Ambitious up-and-comers used this week's Democratic National Convention to introduce themselves to the nation and began carving a foothold for 2016. Published September 6, 2012
By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times
If you want to escape religion at the Democratic National Convention, there is only one place to go: the official Charlotte Convention Center prayer room. Published September 6, 2012
By David R. Sands - The Washington Times
Democrats here clearly think they have a political winner in President Obama's decision to bail out the American auto industry, but numbers on the bailout's cost released this week suggest that the move could pose some political potholes for both presidential campaigns this fall. Published September 6, 2012
By Associated Press
Gabrielle Giffords has inspired the cheering delegates at the Democratic National Convention by leading the Pledge of Allegiance. Published September 6, 2012
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
While Republicans rarely brought up former President George W. Bush at their convention last week, Democrats gleefully have paraded him through theirs, saying he left President Obama a mess he's still working to clean up. Published September 6, 2012
By Dave Boyer and Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
Hoping for good economic news in the wake of his renomination at the Democratic National Convention, President Obama will embark Friday on a three-day campaign trip to battleground states culminating in a bus tour of the crucial Interstate 4 corridor in Florida. Published September 6, 2012
By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
Less than 24 hours after Bill Clinton delivered a full-throated endorsement of President Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., the battle for Bubba raged on over the airwaves and in the email in boxes Thursday. Published September 6, 2012
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
After canceling his stadium-sized speech, President Obama on Thursday told the thousands of supporters who missed out on seeing him that he's still counting on them to do the legwork required to get him re-elected. Published September 6, 2012
By Charles Hurt
Bill Clinton's typically epic speech last night was certainly the most detailed, calculated and complete attack on the Republican agenda that we have heard during the entire campaign. It was also the most unreserved and embracing defense of President Obama. Published September 6, 2012
By Susan Crabtree and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Furiously trying to paper over a platform battle that muddied the party's message and forced President Obama to intervene, Democratic National Convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa said the anger and confusion over the way he managed a vote restoring passages on God and Jerusalem as Israel's capital to the platform Wednesday was the fault of unhappy delegates who failed to object to his ruling. Published September 6, 2012
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Obama's partisan tone on the campaign trail these days is a far cry from his idealism of 2004, when the fresh-faced Illinois state senator introduced himself to the nation with his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. Published September 5, 2012
By David R. Sands - The Washington Times
There will be no replay of Denver 2008 as organizers of the Democratic National Convention announced Wednesday that President Obama's planned outdoor acceptance speech at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., has been moved indoors because of threatening rain in the forecast. Published September 5, 2012
By Associated Press
The Democratic Party's platform makes no reference to God, drawing criticism from Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential candidate. Published September 5, 2012
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi isn't a mathematician, but on Wednesday she shared with reporters an intricate arithmetical formula that shows a "very doable" path for Democrats to win back the House in the November elections. Published September 5, 2012
By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
Rep. Paul Ryan, launching a pre-emptive strike ahead of former President Bill Clinton's address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, said President Obama is no Clinton. Published September 5, 2012
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Embarking on the stretch run of his final campaign, President Obama arrived at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte on Wednesday afternoon in advance of accepting his party's renomination Thursday night. Published September 5, 2012
By Stephen Dinan and Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
The White House scrambled Wednesday to alter the Democratic Party platform after they adopted a version that left out references to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and made no mention of God. Published September 5, 2012
By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times
For Democrats, this week's convention is an opportunity to meet, greet and put a collective best foot forward to the national electorate. For Republicans, it's an opportunity to poke and prod, issue rebuttals, and generally make like the snarky Stadler and Waldorf from "The Muppet Show." Published September 5, 2012
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
While their colleagues are in Charlotte, N.C., this week for the party's national convention, many red-state Democrats are staying put to sweat it out on the campaign trail — and create some distance between them and their more liberal counterparts. Published September 5, 2012
By David Hill - The Washington Times
President Obama is expected to thrill supporters Thursday night when he speaks at the Democratic National Convention, but the good feeling could be short-lived with the arrival of a critical jobs report to be released Friday morning. Published September 5, 2012
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
Bill Clinton is a president who loves the limelight and being adored, and is so good at performing on a grand stage that there's always a chance he will overshadow anyone that comes after him. On Wednesday night, his charisma and spotlight-stealing skills faced a major test as he spoke for another Democratic candidate, President Obama. Published September 5, 2012
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Democrats broke yet another barrier Wednesday when they invited an illegal immigrant young adult onto the stage at their nominating convention in Charlotte — part of a historic Hispanic outreach program that the party hopes will cement ties to the fast-growing ethnic voting bloc in the country. Published September 5, 2012
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Vani Hari had a tube of lipstick, a front-row seat and a message. Amid the sea of signs waved by delegates at the Democratic National Convention, the 33-year-old North Carolina delegate stood with her "Forward" sign held high, crowned by the words "Label GMOs!" written in lipstick red. Published September 5, 2012
By Joseph Curl
In just three short minutes, Democrats handed the 2012 election to Republican Mitt Romney. Published September 5, 2012
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
While enthusiasm for President Obama among black voters has waned a bit since his first run at the White House in 2008, the Democratic Party will do what is necessary to ensure black voters turn out to secure his re-election, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus said in an interview Wednesday. Published September 5, 2012
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
The uneasy relationship between President Obama and coal-state Democrats is on display at the party's convention this week, with delegates from states such as West Virginia and Kentucky openly acknowledging the president has dug himself a hole. Published September 5, 2012
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Democrats rushed to clean up a party platform mess Wednesday and moved to officially re-nominate President Obama for a second term in office as his predecessor, former President Bill Clinton, said voters this year must choose between Republicans' "winner-take-all" vision of success and his own party's "shared prosperity." Published September 5, 2012
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
The most memorable moment of the Democratic National Convention was when the delegates denied God three times from the convention floor. It was the latest blunder in an Obama re-election effort that increasingly looks like it doesn't have a prayer. Published September 6, 2012
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
The bloom was off the rose for Democrats as their convention kicked off in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. The attempt to recapture the magic of the 2008 election is faltering as party faithful are running away from the incumbent candidate, President Obama, to preserve their own political careers. Published September 4, 2012
By L. Douglas Wilder
In 1969, I ran for the Virginia state Senate as a Democrat. Not because any party grandees came to my door and begged -- or even suggested -- I throw my hat in the ring. I did it because I talked with my friends and neighbors in Richmond and across the state. Published September 4, 2012
By Rick Berman
Labor leaders have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, politically speaking. Published August 14, 2012
By David Hill
Never one to miss an opportunity to criticize Democrats, former New Hampshire governor and Republican John Sununu theorized Wednesday afternoon that the party is moving the final night of its Democratic National Convention because it can't fill the planned venue, and not because of possible bad weather. Published September 5 2012
Looking to rebut assertions that Massachusetts ranked near the bottom in job creation when Mitt Romney was calling the shots in the Bay State, the Republican National Committee pointed to fact-checkers who found the charge, made again Tuesday by Gov. Deval Patrick at the Democratic convention, to be "half true." Published September 5 2012
While they buried a call for statehood-type rights for the District of Columbia in their platform, Democrats will not have advocates speak about the issue from the podium during their three-day convention in Charlotte, the city's representative to Congress said on Tuesday. Published September 4 2012
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