Clinton Praises Palin Pick Clinton Praises Palin Pick
ST. PAUL -- Hillary Clinton, after a Democratic National Convention week of scrambling to be on-message for the Barack Obama campaign, veered off message to celebrate the selectio...
Aug 30, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama’s Tough New Populism Obama’s Tough New Populism
DENVER -- William Cobb was going to approve of Barack Obama's acceptence speech. Cobb is a working man, a union man and a proud member of the party of working men and union men: ...
Aug 29, 2008 / John Nichols
Twin Cities Values Twin Cities Values
Minnesota's message to the GOP: we're all better off when we look after one another.
Aug 28, 2008 / John Nichols
It Looks a Lot Like Unity It Looks a Lot Like Unity
DENVER – In 1908, when Democrats first gathered in Denver, African-American activists asked the party to make a place for them -- inside the convention, in the platform and in t...
Aug 28, 2008 / John Nichols
The Right Speech — For Clinton and Obama The Right Speech — For Clinton and Obama
DENVER -- Even the Obama delegates were reaching for Clinton signs. Such was the intensity of the moment, as delegates of every political stripe grabbed up the white signs -- "Pa...
Aug 27, 2008 / John Nichols
Michelle Obama’s Elegant Remarks Michelle Obama’s Elegant Remarks
DENVER -- Asking the wife of a candidate for president to address the national convention at which her husband is to be nominated is a relatively recent phenomenon. And the histo...
Aug 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Democratic party, the hero of a dozen Democratic national conventions, took the stage at one more gathering of the fa...
Aug 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Moving Democrats Toward a Progressive Future Moving Democrats Toward a Progressive Future
Democratic National Conventions have come a long way since the last time the party's delegates met in Denver. In 1908, when the party met in this western city, African-Americans s...
Aug 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Biden’s Kitchen-Table Populism Biden’s Kitchen-Table Populism
Barack Obama stumbled at one point in his introduction of his vice presidential pick, telling the crowd in Springfield that he had come to "introduce you to the next President…t...
Aug 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Champion of Electoral Justice Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Champion of Electoral Justice
Stephanie Tubbs Jones came on my radar in 1990 when, as a relatively young and little-known Cuyahoga County Judge, she mounted a progressive challenge to a conservative Republican...
Aug 21, 2008 / John Nichols