Updated:June 28, 2024|Original:February 26, 2020 copy page linkPrint Page NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal/Getty Images For all the pomp and circumstance that once surrounded presidential party conventions, they’re rarely all that dramatic today. In fact, the last time Democrats faced a tight delegate...
This year has seen an increase in "Nation-state and non-state actors" who may "view these events as an opportunity to influence or disrupt the U.S. political process using hostile or violent disruption tactics on a national media stage," according to the D...
George Washington didn’t have a nominating convention. As the commander of the colonial forces in the American Revolution, he was an easy candidate to select from among the eligible pool of any white man 35 and older, and he won his first two elections without any real competition. After ...
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April 1, 2024 by Michael Hanscom Just for fun, here’s a little peek at going to (and being rather heavily involved in the production of) Norwescon as recorded by my Apple Watch. For each graph, I’ve set it to display a month’s worth of data to make the variations nice and vis...
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The plank also echoes Dukakis’ call for creation of “housing partnerships,” in which private-sector companies would team with state and local governments to build homes that low- and moderate-income families can buy or rent. Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts, believes such partnerships would le...
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delegates to theMississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which had sent anintegrateddelegation to the convention to protestvoter suppressionin the state, resulted in the departure of many white delegates from Alabama and Mississippi, who refused to sign a pledge to support the party’s presidential ...