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Most-Watched Convention Speaker Was ... Joe Biden?!

VP bests Obama, Romney, even Clint Eastwood

(Newser) - When presented with the opportunity to watch the president , a very popular former president , the Republican presidential nominee , or an old guy talking to a chair , America was apparently most excited about … Joe Biden . Yes, out of all the speakers at the DNC and the RNC, the VP got... More »

Texas GOPer Lynches Chair on Front Lawn

Any guesses what message he's subtly trying to convey?

(Newser) - An Austin Republican's lawn currently features an empty chair dangling from a rope on a tree, along with a US flag. Following Clint Eastwood's RNC speech , it's not a stretch to assume the empty chair symbolizes President Obama, suggesting not-so-subtly a lynching, Burnt Orange Report notes. A... More »

Romney Camp: We're Not Losing

Sources scramble to hose down good poll news for Obama

(Newser) - Mitt Romney's campaign was scrambling yesterday to reverse any impression that the candidate might be slipping into election oblivion. A GOP campaign pollster conceded that, yes, maybe President Obama got a bounce out of the Democratic National Convention, but he warned voters not to get "too worked up... More »

Eastwood Calls Obama the 'Greatest Hoax'

Actor says he decided to talk to chair minutes before he went out

(Newser) - Clint Eastwood doesn't regret his, er, unique RNC speech , saying it accomplished everything he wanted it to. The 82-year-old gave his first interview since the convention to the Carmel Pine Cone , a tiny outlet from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he was once mayor. "President Obama is the greatest hoax... More »

Honey Boo Boo, DNC in Ratings Tie

RNC fell short of child beauty queen's reality show

(Newser) - There's only one real way to tell which party's convention was the bigger success: Stack it up against Honey Boo Boo . By that measure, at least, Democrats come out victorious. Bill Clinton's speech to the convention tied TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo in ratings, while... More »

Clint Eastwood Cutout Gets Its Own Empty Chair

People still riffing on Republican National Convention appearance

(Newser) - For the past few months, a life-sized cardboard cutout of Clint Eastwood has been overlooking California's Glendale Freeway—and now it's been joined by an empty chair, the Los Angeles Times reports. The chair, of course, evokes Eastwood's RNC appearance , in which he spoke for 12 minutes... More »

Twitter Goes Bananas for Michelle, DNC

Convention racks up 3M tweets on day one

(Newser) - If the election were determined by Twitter, the Democrats would be hard to beat. As night one of the DNC wrapped up, 3 million convention-related tweets had entered the Twitterverse ... compared to the 4 million the GOP racked up over three days last week, reports Mashable . And the tweets were... More »

Castro: 'Choose the Candidate Who Has Chosen Us'

Julian Castro hails a US that makes immigrant success possible

(Newser) - San Antonio mayor and rising Democratic star Julian Castro commandeered the podium tonight to extol the American success story of immigrants—who get just a little help. "Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps—and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them.... More »

Romney Speech a Record Dud

Acceptance gets lowest ratings in Gallup history

(Newser) - Gallup has been polling on convention acceptance speeches since 1996, and Mitt Romney's has received the lowest ratings yet. Only 38% of those polled described his speech as excellent or good, compared to 47% who said the same about John McCain in 2008. (McCain was the next lowest-rated... More »

Calif. Dem: Lying Ryan Is Like Goebbels

Delegation chief John Burton: I never used the word 'Nazi'

(Newser) - The head of the California delegation to the Democratic National Convention has triggered a storm of criticism after he compared Paul Ryan's "lying" to the actions of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. “They lie and they don’t care if people think they lie," John Burton... More »

Obama Irked by Clint's Skit? Nah, He's a 'Huge' Fan

Eastwood 'is a great actor, and even better director'

(Newser) - Was President Obama offended by Clint Eastwood's repartee with an empty chair at the RNC? Hardly, he says—in fact he made sure to tell reporters on Air Force One that he's "a huge Clint Eastwood fan. He is a great actor, and an even better director.... More »

Where Have All Our Grand Dreams Gone?

GOP, Dems mired in tiny ideas. Where's our modern race to the moon?

(Newser) - After three days of listening to speeches at the Republican National Convention, Thomas Friedman grew tired of listening to endless propounding about "American exceptionalism," he writes in his latest column in the New York Times . Fifty years after President Kennedy launched America on a great journey to the... More »

Bill Maher Defends Eastwood: 'He Killed'

Host hates the politics but loves the delivery

(Newser) - Bill Maher may have disagreed with just about everything Clint Eastwood said in his convention speech —"I had no idea he was such a down the line, right-wing a---hole"—but he's not among those mocking the performance, notes Mediaite . People are always carping that these events... More »

Eastwood's Chair Prop: Last-Second Improv

He asked staff for it just before going on, without explaining why

(Newser) - Nobody knew about the chair. In post-mortems on Clint Eastwood's "unique" convention speech , the Washington Post and the New York Times say the actor asked for the prop just before going on without explaining what he was going to do. He's 82, after all, and "everyone... More »

Honey Boo Boo Beats RNC Ratings

Well, by one measure at least

(Newser) - Mitt Romney has another opponent to worry about—and she's only six years old. Wednesday night's episode of TLC reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo pulled in almost 3 million viewers, scoring a 1.3 rating among viewers 18-49—more than any other cable show that evening... More »

RNC Guardsman Shot With Own Gun in Hotel Mishap

Shooter was examining colleague's gun

(Newser) - A Florida National Guardsman in Tampa for the Republican National Convention accidentally shot a colleague with the man's own gun. Police say the guardsman was examining the grip on 21-year-old Michael Wdowiak's revolver when it went off, striking Wdowiak in the upper body and left hand, reports the... More »

Romney Speech 'Solid, Workmanlike'

He got the job done, but Eastwood speech may be the one people remember

(Newser) - Mitt Romney delivered the biggest speech of his life in Tampa last night, and while his solid, heartfelt address did not disappoint, there were no surprises. Some pundits suspect Clint Eastwood's ad-libbed ramble will be the speech more people are talking about this morning.
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Reagan Hologram Skips Convention

Republicans feared it would upstage Mitt

(Newser) - Despite conflicting reports, there really were plans for a Ronald Reagan hologram to wow Republican National Convention attendees Tupac-style, according to Yahoo News . The holo-Reagan was to have appeared outside the convention hall to give a speech supporting the JOBS act—but Republican leaders decided that the hologram might upstage... More »

Romney: Hope Again With Me

He hails Bain record, talks of 5M jobs plan

(Newser) - A smiling Mitt Romney grasped hands all the way to the stage before a booming Republican National Convention tonight to hail his record at Bain Capital, lash President Obama's failed "hope and change" that America "deserved," and present his vision for the future. He pointedly wooed... More »

Clint Makes Mitt's Day

'When someone's not doing their job, let 'em go'

(Newser) - Taciturn Hollywood tough guy Clint Eastwood saddled up for Mitt Romney tonight. People aren't all "left of Lenin" in Hollywood, said a tousled-haired Clint in a rambling 10-minute speech. "There are a lot of conservative people, moderate people, in Hollywood" who "play it closer to the... More »

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