Friday, March 21, 2008

Gov. Richardson endorses Obama

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Obama picked up a potentially big endorsement overnight from Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico:

“I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America’s moral leadership in the world,” Richardson said in a statement obtained by the AP. Continue Reading...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Superdelegate Endorsement List

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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Add-on superdelegate selection schedule

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The table below shows the schedule for each State Convention where Unpledged Add-on Delegates was selected.

The following description of the Add-on Delegates is taken from the Democratic National Convention Committee(DNCC) web site:
“Add-on delegates – may be selected by either the same selecting body that selects the state’s PLEO delegates or by the same selecting body which will select the state’s “at-large” delegates. They can be selected whether or not they previously filed a statement of candidacy for a delegate position or submitted a pledge of support for a presidential candidate.. Continue Reading...

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Denver Dem expects a mid-November decision

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The Denver Business Journal reports:

Denver attorney Steve Farber, a partner at Brownstein Hyatt & Farber and a chair of the [Denver 2008] host committee [said] “They’ll probably negotiate two contracts and pick one. I think we’ll hear [from the Democratic National Committee] in mid-November.” Continue Reading...

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

GOP selects St. Paul/Minneapolis

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While the Democrats moved first in picking convention dates and visiting cities, the GOP, realizing they needed to move fast to get their first choice, announced today that they have chosen St. Paul/Minneapolis as the site of their 2008 convention. New York, Cleveland and Tampa/St. Petersburg were also in the running. The convention will be held at St. Paul’s Xcel Center, just as the Democrats were going to do. This leaves the Democrats with Denver and New York as their final two choices.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Hotline says Denver back in play

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I normally try not to show a full article, but the latest from the Hotline on the 2008 Democratic National Convention has nothing that can be skipped:

The city of Denver, which as recently as early September stood a small chance of securing the Democratic National Convention in ’08, is a contender once again. Continue Reading...

Monday, August 28, 2006

Hurricanes and conventions

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As we hit the one year anniversary of Katrina, and as we are almost exactly two years away from the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions, I wanted to revisit the question of whether the parties should hold their conventions in hurricane-prone cities.

When New Orleans was still a major contender for the Democratic convention, I claimed that the chances of a hurricane actually hitting a specific city during a convention was so low, that it was unfair to rule out New Orleans as a site for this reason. And it’s not just New Orleans (which hosted the GOP in ’88); it’s also Miami, which has hosted multiple conventions, Tampa, in the running for the GOP in ’08, and Houston, which hosted the GOP in ’92. Unless you want to put a permanent hex on these cities’ tourist industry every late summer/fall, it just wasn’t fair. Continue Reading...

Thursday, August 17, 2006

The politics of picking a convention site

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CQPolitics examines the politics that play into picking a host city for the 2008 Democratic National Convention:

Picking a host city two years in advance of the 2008 presidential nominating conventions — a process in which both major parties are currently engaged — implies thinking ahead. Continue Reading...