By: Anderson
The 1952 GOP convention didn’t go past the 1st ballot, but IIRC it was fairly dramatic: Taft showed up thinking he would have the votes, but oops.
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Apparently that little girl is now the aunt to a baby with three thumbs. It sounds like a bad hillbilly-inbreeding joke, but I’ve seen the pictures.
View ArticleBy: Cody
Warren’s speech (as usual) sounded very Progressive. In contract to his usual style though, Clinton sent forward some true Progressive messaging. At least in rhetoric, even though he never governed...
View ArticleBy: Cody
He pays interns to do that terrible work. Especially the picking out Fox News clips to make fun of. Bless their souls!
View ArticleBy: Njorl
My favorite convention speech ever was delivered by Democratic party chairman Robert Strauss at the 1976 convention. I was 13 at the time, and every 5 minutes, he’d say “…Kissinger, Simon, Morton and...
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drinking games. for the rnc, every time a black person was shown on the screen i took a shot. i ended up stone cold sober, unfortunately.
View ArticleBy: firefall
No, and never did. Conventions used to be interesting to see the results of backroom dealing, to see political machinations and surprises, but all of those have been carefully ironed out of them for a...
View ArticleBy: Patrick
Alaska Airlines is headquartered in Seattle, but Microsoft outbid them for the XBox sponsorship with the Sounders. Portland just gets our leftovers, like usual…
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