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Texans celebrate Obama nomination
It was a moving night for Texas delegates at the Democratic National Convention.
Click the above to see them at Invesco Field as Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Feeding the beast
Reporters, like regular people, must eat.
And at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week this is pretty much where they had to eat.
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Hutchison shoots down VP talk
We caught Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison after she addressed the Texas Association of Counties this morning. She said she’s not going to be McCain’s running mate.
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Wanted: 2 Obama tickets. Willing to trade: A kidney.
The hottest ticket in Denver today is the ticket to Mile High Stadium for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s acceptance speech tonight.
How hot is it?
Scalpers are reportedly selling them on the street for $100 a piece. On Craigslist.org, the price is up to $600 a ticket. But some folks are even more desperate to see Obama.
On Craigslist, for example, someone in the Denver area is offering a kidney for two tickets for himself and his girlfriend.
The ad says: “Are you in need of an extra kidney? Know of someone who needs one? I have 2 good kidneys which is a little excessive. I’ll give you one of them for two tickets to tonight’s speech.”
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Obama Volvo
Living the stereotype: Democrats and Volvos and bumper stickers.
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Austin shout out
Howdy from Denver via MSNBC this morning.
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DNC: Behind the Scenes Part 3—Bloggers in the Big Tent, Obama Girl, and the Elusive Conservative Blogger
A look at the Big Tent set up for non-affiliated, independent bloggers. Interviews with bloggers such as “Hissyspit,” the Obama Girl, and a search for an elusive conservative blogger in a room filled with vocal Obama supporters.
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Delegate votes still recorded despite Obama acclamation
Although Democrats declared Barack Obama their presidential nominee by unanimous acclamation Wednesday afternoon, ballots for chief rival Hillary Clinton were still recorded in some state delegations.
Delegates started marking their paper ballots in their hotel rooms Wednesday morning, hours before the actual roll call of the states that ended prematurely when Clinton herself moved that the convention unanimously declare Obama their 2008 presidential nominee.
In the Texas delegation, for example, Obama got 124 delegate votes and Clinton got 96, with only one of Clinton’s pledged delegates switching to Obama.
Clinton asked the convention delegates to make Obama’s nomination unanimous “in the sprit of unity, with the goal of victory.”
Her request came midway through the traditional roll call of the states and was the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between both campaigns to present a unified front on the eve of Obama’s acceptance speech.
At the time of her request, the roll call vote stood at 1,549.5 votes for Obama and 341.5 votes for Clinton.
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Invesco Field: Too big for Barack?
There’ll be a big crowd at Denver’s Invesco Field Thursday night when Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech. But Democratic consultant Stan Greenberg says it might become a big mistake. See the stadium and hear his concerns.
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Carville says Bill Clinton and Obama warming to each other
Longtime Clinton confidante James Carville told reporters Wednesday that the healing process between former President Bill Clinton and soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton “has accelerated.”
“He and Obama have talked more in the last week probably than they have in their entire life,” Carville said at a press lunch hours before the former president was to address the Democratic national convention. “My sense is the healing process has accelerated.”
There has been a lot of speculation about Clinton this week, with some news accounts suggesting the ex-president is still upset with the Obama campaign for suggesting his conduct in the primaries in support of his wife Hillary was racist.
But Carville said it would be obvious, once Clinton addressed the convention delegates Wednesday night, that he enthusiastically supports Obama for president and is ready to campaign for the nominee.
“This is going to be a much warmer thing than you had with Reagan and Ford (at the 1976 Republican convention),” Carville said. “It’s going to be a much warmer thing than you had with Kennedy and Carter (at the 1980 Democratic convention. And the Clinton and Gore relationship in 2000.”
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