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Obama tells huge Dem crowd he'll fix Washington - Added 6 minutes ago

Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his...

Obama criticism of McCain needs a bit of context - Added 12 minutes ago

Barack Obama added detail and context to his policies Thursday. Some of his criticism of John McCain could have used some, too. Here are some examples: OBAMA: "Why else would he define middle-class as someone making...

Obama sketches promise of America - Added 15 minutes ago

Barack Obama cast his presidential nomination as proof that no dreams are too high, savoring a historic moment for himself and the nation Thursday before setting out on a difficult struggle to break another barrier for...

Analysis: Obama spares details, keeps up attacks - Added 21 minutes ago

Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is "change we can believe in," promised Thursday to "spell out exactly what that change would mean." But instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long...

Analysis: Oprah, Alba! Obama goldmine or downfall? - Added 32 minutes ago

Hollywood didn't contribute official speakers to Barack Obama's convention. But, man, did celebrities flock to Denver in droves. Is Oprah in the house? That was Matthew Modine! Oh, wow, there's Anne Hathaway. All that...

More than 84,000 attend Obama speech - Added 59 minutes ago

More than 84,000 people have jammed into Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to hear Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech, city officials say. Nancy Kuhn of Denver's public works department says the figure is based...

Democrat's vision will collide with reality - Added 1 hour ago

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday night with a lofty vision for the nation's future that is far easier to articulate than to accomplish. The next occupant of the White House will inherit a...

Analysis: 'Born in the USA' returns to politics - Added 1 hour ago

A generation after Ronald Reagan famously mistook Bruce Springsteen's music for uncritical patriotism, Democrats claimed "Born in the USA" on Thursday for the theme it was meant to project _ to describe a splintered...

End to Middle East oil imports unlikely - Added 1 hour ago

Barack Obama's promise Thursday to work to "end our dependence" on Middle East oil within a decade may be good political rhetoric when Americans have been paying $4 a gallon at the gas pumps, but the goal likely would...

Ohio woman addresses Obama rumors - Added 1 hour ago

An Ohio woman who was one of the everyday Americans invited to speak at the Democratic convention sought in her speech Thursday night to debunk rumors circulating on the Internet about Sen. Barack Obama. Monica Early,...

View from cheap seats doesn't dampen enthusiasm - Added 1 hour ago

The air was thin, the sun was strong and the view of the stage was horrible. But that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of Democrats who sat in the cheap seats all the way at the top of Invesco Field at Mile High. "The...

Barack Obama's convention address - Added 1 hour ago

Prepared remarks of Sen. Barack Obama for his address to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night in Denver, as released by the campaign: To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin, and to all my...

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Obama greeted by screaming crowd at stadium - Added 1 hour ago

Barack Obama has arrived at cavernous Invesco Field to accept the Democratic Party presidential nomination in a moment of history witnessed by a delirious, overflow convention crowd of unprecedented size. More than...

Obama uses speech for high-tech outreach - Added 1 hour ago

Forgive some of the 84,000 people amassed at Invesco Field Thursday if their thumbs are a bit weary by the time Barack Obama takes the stage for a triumphant acceptance of his presidential nomination. In the hours...

McCain makes decision on running mate - Added 1 hour ago

Republican presidential candidate John McCain decided on a running mate early Thursday, and top prospects waited to hear from the nominee-in-waiting. "There's nothing really new to report on Senator McCain's decision....

Biden makes surprise speaking appearance - Added 2 hours ago

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden has made an unscheduled appearance at Invesco Field, touting the "open convention" at Denver's football stadium. His assignment was to precede a lineup of Democrats from...

Gore accuses McCain of policies to close to Bush - Added 3 hours ago

Former Vice President Gore is telling Democratic Party convention delegates that John McCain's election as president would be little more than a continuation of Bush-Cheney policies. Gore told the crowd, "Hey, I...

Richardson says Obama right on terrorist strategy - Added 3 hours ago

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has told Democratic National Convention delegates that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have the right policy on terrorism _ focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq. Richardson was U.S....

Excerpts from Barack Obama's speech - Added 3 hours ago

Excerpts from Barack Obama's speech Thursday accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president, as prepared for delivery: ___ "Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story _ of the brief union...

Higher TV convention ratings this time than last - Added 3 hours ago

Interest in the Democratic convention among television viewers continues to run well ahead of 2004, although vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was a slightly less potent draw than Hillary Clinton. CNN was also...

Democrats seek to get out the faith vote - Added 3 hours ago

Call it getting out the God vote. Democrats are borrowing traditionally Republican tactics to court religious voters, airing ads on Christian radio, inserting ads in church bulletins and throwing faith-focused house...

Post-convention 'bounce' averages 10 points - Added 4 hours ago

And now comes ... the wait for "The Bounce." One thing presidential candidates hope they'll get from their nominating conventions is a healthy "bounce" _ a gain in popularity as measured by public opinion polls. Since...

Obama, McCain on the issues - Added 4 hours ago

A look at where Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stand on a selection of issues as the national party conventions affirm their presidential nominations and launch the fall campaign: ABORTION McCain:...

Dean tells delegates turnout vital this fall - Added 4 hours ago

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has told the party's convention delegates that John McCain is a "yes man" for President Bush's policies. Dean said the Democratic Party is much more robust than it has been in...

Obama's campaign chief urges hard work - Added 5 hours ago

Barack Obama's campaign manager has told Democratic National Convention delegates they will have to work very hard to beat Sen. John McCain this fall. David Plouffe (PLUFF) was among the early speakers at the climactic...

Street vendors flourish at convention - Added 7 hours ago

That familiar old refrain about getting a lousy souvenir wouldn't sell very well in the city hosting the Democratic National Convention. It would be difficult for anybody to legitimately grouse that his aunt went to...

GOP counterpunches as Obama to claim nomination - Added 7 hours ago

On Barack Obama's big night, Republicans in Denver pushed an alternative convention narrative: Sure he can thrill a crowd of Democrats, but is he ready to be president? A diverse quartet of Republicans _ including...

In a switch, McCain to Obama: "Well done" - Added 7 hours ago

In a brief break from a fierce advertising war, Republican presidential candidate John McCain will air a one-evening-only ad with a simple message for Barack Obama: "Job well done." The ad will air before, during and...

In a switch, McCain to Obama: 'Well done' - Added 7 hours ago

John McCain is airing a one-evening-only ad with a simple message for Barack Obama: "Job well done." The ad coincides with Obama's nomination acceptance speech. McCain congratulates Obama for his nomination. McCain...

RNC panel calls Nevada GOP 'inept' - Added 7 hours ago

A key Republican committee says it is troubled by the "ineptness" of the Nevada GOP and called the state party's attempt to choose delegates for next week's national convention "flawed, inadequate and unacceptable." A...

Reps. Lewis, DeGette sound new notes about Obama - Added 8 hours ago

Reps. John Lewis of Georgia and Diana DeGette of Colorado were among those scheduled to address the Democratic National Convention on Thursday in support of Barack Obama. Each was an early supporter of Hillary Rodham...

25 things you might not know about McCain - Added 8 hours ago

Twenty-five things you might not know about John McCain 1. He has a stuffed dancing hamster on display in his Senate office. 2. His wife says her obsession with electronic gadgets and technology is one of his pet...

THE EDGE: Dems' best and worst - Added 8 hours ago

Four days, hundreds of speakers, thousands of delegates, endless pontificating. So much that is memorable from the Democratic National Convention, so much that is forgettable. Seven AP reporters help sort it all out, by...

Cindy McCain's half sister: "I'm voting for Obama" - Added 8 hours ago

Cindy McCain's half sister says she will not vote for Republican John McCain and plans to cast her ballot for his Democratic rival, Barack Obama. "I have a different political standpoint," Kathleen Hensley Portalski...

Biographical information on John McCain - Added 8 hours ago

NAME _ John Sidney McCain III AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION _ 71; born Aug. 29, 1936; Panama Canal Zone. EXPERIENCE: U.S. Senate, 1987-present; unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate, 2000; U.S. House of...

GOP faces hard choices in bid for revival - Added 8 hours ago

The Republican Party that strode confidently into New York City to nominate President Bush for a second term in 2004 would hardly recognize the one that opens its national convention Sept. 1 in St. Paul. Bush won...

Rebel with a cause chases the presidency - Added 8 hours ago

In John McCain's thinking, it is one thing to break the rules and quite another to break the faith. He's spent a lifetime walking the line between the two. The high school troublemaker became one of the Naval...

Facts and figures about St. Paul, Minn. - Added 8 hours ago

Facts and figures about St. Paul, Minn., host city for the 2008 Republican National Convention: _ Population as of 2006: 272,217. _ Median age of residents: 33.5. _ Total number of housing units: 119,141. _...

GOP host St. Paul gets day in the sun - Added 8 hours ago

The Republican National Convention should be St. Paul's big moment. Too bad most everyone seems to think it's being held in Minneapolis. "It's like nails on a chalkboard when I hear that," said Mary Lethert Wingerd, a...

McBama agenda: Common ground between candidates - Added 9 hours ago

John McCain and Barack Obama share common ground on a surprising selection of issues where the age-old Republican-Democratic divide doesn't cut it anymore. Both want the United States to join the campaign against...

Biden: Obama cannot win without Pennsylvania - Added 10 hours ago

Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden told Pennsylvania delegates Thursday that running mate Barack Obama can't win the White House without the Keystone State. "This is not hyperbole: We cannot win without...

DNC '08: Reviewing the big show - Added 11 hours ago

A pivotal moment in the 1998 movie "Pleasantville" comes when an unusual remote control pulls a brother and sister into their television set. They emerge on the other side, inside the world of the show they are...

Excitment, tears and Kumar on convention floor - Added 12 hours ago

You never know who you'll run into on the floor of the Democratic National Convention. It might be a football immortal, or a 1980s TV actress, or the former secretary of state. Even the star of the "Harold and Kumar"...

Some Clinton fundraisers squeezing money for Obama - Added 14 hours ago

Alexander Heckler is working hard to dispel The Rift. Here at the Democratic National Convention, the youthful and energetic former Florida finance chairman for Hillary Rodham Clinton is handing out party tickets and...

Obama makes unscripted appearance at the DNC - Added 15 hours ago

Sen. Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention a day early Wednesday to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill Clinton for going to bat for him. "I think Michelle Obama...

Pa. legislative candidate discloses arrest record - Added 17 hours ago

A candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is bringing up his arrest for domestic assault _ in his own campaign materials. Democrat Jim Prendergast says telling voters about his 1996 misdemeanor assault...

Former 'Real World' member running for Congress - Added 19 hours ago

A longtime Brooklyn congressman who has gone most of his career without ever facing much of a re-election challenge is facing an aggressive fight this year from a former "Real World" cast member. Community activist...

ABC News staffer jailed in Denver amid convention - Added 20 hours ago

An ABC News producer covering the Democratic convention was pushed into traffic by a sheriff's deputy on Wednesday and then arrested, the network said. Asa Eslocker was arrested on charges of interference, trespass and...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 20 hours ago

!!-- pobj:CODEN312-0827082229 -->IN THE HEADLINES Barack Obama to woo nation 45 years after Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech ... Biden tells Democratic convention needs more than a good soldier, reference...