Category: conventionology

Was the counterconvention this well organized in Boston? Didn’t seem to be. The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention Note to left-wing marketers: “The People’s anything” is a salesbuster.

Can we read anything into this report (Colin Powell will skip GOP convention)? Brings to mind Bill Maher’s recent quip about Keyes running for senator in Illinois, to the effect that the Republicans couldn’t find Osama, couldn’t find weapons of mass destruction, and couldn’t find an African-American in Chicago.

The future doesn’t belong to fear. It belongs to freedom. – John Forbes Kerry

Kerry looks very happy, energized by the welcome (photos to come), and at ease with the rhetoric of home, hearth, faith, and family. This is his one shot to introduce himself to the sliver of a sliver of the undecideds who are tuned in right now. After this it’s the other convention, the debates, perhaps…

People critized Teresa Heinz Kerry for giving a substantive speech instead of the “he’s really a good guy” type of speech filled with heart-warming anecdotes. Daughter Alexandra seems to have remedied that situation, particular with her tale of a father giving mouth-to-mouth to his child’s waterlogged hamster. Jeff Jarvis concurs.

Dave Johnson picks up on a Reuters article on an interesting study of how “fear of death wins votes”: President Bush may be tapping into solid human psychology when he invokes the Sept. 11 attacks while campaigning for the next election, U.S. researchers said on July 29, 2004. Talking about death can raise people’s need…

Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest points to this transcript of Michael Moore’s speech from Tuesday: AlterNet: Election 2004: Michael Moore’s Speech in Cambridge, Mass.. I was culling through my notes from that day, so here are some of the highlights, based on my own transcription. To the press: We need you to do your…

Barack Obama’s speech got more and more intense as he went along. Jerome Armstrong from My Due Diligence said at first he was worried that Obama might pull an ’88 Clinton and just meander on and bore people, but the energy built and built and by the end of the speech the convention hall was…

It won’t be televised on the regular networks, but Howard Dean is scheduled to address the campaign delegates tonight. Here is a drinking game that is circulating among alumni of his wired campaign: Howard Dean Convention Speech Drinking Game 1 shot Any mention of the word idear Any mention of strong, strength, stronger Any bad…

“the super-rich and their army of lobbyists in Washington.”

Though I grew up in New York rooting for the Yankees, I found myself strangely pulling for the Bosox this evening. Kerry threw out the first ball (it bounced and the catcher missed it) and there were all kinds of Red Sox Fans for Kerry and similar signage being handed out. What with the Republican…