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Republican National Convention stories: 84 news summaries

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 Not Priceless: 
 Palin's $2500 
 RNC Jacket 

VP nominee has secret stylists

Sep 17, 08 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has attracted notice for her designer glasses and highlights, but the New York Post is more interested in the $2,500 silk Valentino jacket she wore during the Republican National Convention —and the secret team of stylists it reports dress her for campaign events. "They do... More »

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clothes • style • Valentino • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention

Palin Is Feisty, Good-Looking: Schwarzenegger

Governator's Q&A with German mag ruffles Calif. feathers, too

Sep 10, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger has given an interview to a German magazine so candid that some in Sacramento are wondering if the Q&A with the California governor was mistranslated, the Los Angeles Times reports. Schwarzenegger told Der Spiegel he was surprised by John McCain's choice of the "feisty" and "... More »

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Arnold Schwarzenegger • governor • Sarah Palin • interview • Republican National Convention

 Palin Billed 
 State to 
 Live at Home 

Gov. charged per diem home fee, and family got $43K in travel expenses

Sep 9, 08 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska nearly $17,000 in per diem fees for 312 nights she spent at her Wasilla home, even though she had moved with her family to the state capitol of Juneau before the legislative session last year, reports the Washington Post. The state has... More »

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Juneau • Department of Commerce • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention • Wasilla • Todd Palin • travel expenses • per diems • Kim Garnero

Mac Bounces to 3-Point Lead Over Obama

Convention boosts
McCain to highest
numbers since May

Sep 7, 08 5:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is leading Barack Obama by 48% to 45% in the latest Gallup poll, McCain's highest level of support since early May, Politico reports. Both candidates earned an expected convention bounce, but McCain’s boost was more immediate. Obama was ahead 49% to 43% among registered voters before the... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democratic National Convention • Gallup poll • Republican National Convention

OPINION

 Why Her
 'Servant's
 Heart'
 Matters
 

Palin's speech demonstrated ordinary, old-time conservative values

Sep 6, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has the “power of the normal,” and she has the Democrats rightfully running scared, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. The mother of 5 with her hockey-mom jokes and imperfect voice is "vividly genuine," a trait that helped her be the... More »

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Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • conservatives • opinion • Republican National Convention • acceptance speech

Paul Delegates to Convention Go Uncounted

Voting shenanigans don't extend to
ballots for Romney

Sep 5, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Paul won far more delegates in the Republican primaries than the roll call vote at the GOP convention indicated, reports the LA Times. Though a reporter counted at least 15 would-be votes for Paul, the convention secretary recorded only five, and even cut off the microphones of two Oklahoma... More »

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Ron Paul • Republican National Convention

opinion

McCain's Image as Lackluster Speaker Intact

Pundits view speech
as workmanlike,
maybe even boring

Sep 5, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last night was John McCain’s big moment at the Republican National Convention. Oratory hasn’t been his strong suit in the past. How were the reactions to his speech?
  • McCain bored Michael Tomasky at the UK Guardian, who wonders if he was baiting negative reviews to rile up
... More »

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John McCain • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention

(Newser) - John McCain’s acceptance speech was remarkable, honorable, and sometimes moving, but also sounded like a valedictory, “more the end of a career than the beginning of a presidency,” writes Joe Klein of Time. McCain was short on new ideas—the policy section "was a... More »

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John McCain • speech • McCain 2008 • Republican National Convention

 400 Busted in RNC Protest 


Sep 5, 08 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 400 anti-war demonstrators were arrested last night in clashes with police near the Republican convention, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. Officers in riot gear with snowplows, horses, and dump trucks blocked bridges and used tear gas and pepper spray when the protesters attempted to march from the Capitol, the site... More »

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police • anti war movement • St. Paul • political demonstrations • protesters • Republican National Convention

ANALYSIS

GOP: Incumbents in Opposition Clothing

Establishment party adopts anti-establishment stance

Sep 5, 08 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Republican National Convention was so full of calls for change and vows to clean up Washington that it was almost easy to forget that the GOP has been in power for the last 8 years, writes Peter Baker in the New York Times. John McCain is seeking to distance... More »

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Bush administration • John McCain • Republican Party • Republican strategy • George W. Bush • Republican National Convention

updated

 McCain: 'Change Is Coming'


Sep 4, 08 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain accepted the Republican nomination tonight and promised that "change is coming," MSNBC reports. McCain stressed that he, not Barack Obama, can bridge party differences and end the "constant partisan rancor" in Washington. “Again and again, I’ve worked with members of both parties to... More »

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John McCain • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Republican National Convention

(Newser) - Sarah Palin's big introduction to America last night drew 37.2 million viewers, Variety reports. Her huge Nielsen ratings came in just 1.1 million under Barack Obama's for his acceptance speech last week. Palin, who officially became the vice-presidential nominee today, dwarfed the ratings of Joe Biden (24 million).... More »

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John McCain • Republican • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention

Palin Babydaddy Sports 'Bristol' Engagement Tattoo

17-year-old pregnant daughter of Republican VP pick has actual ring

Sep 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Levi Johnston, boyfriend and father-to-be of Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol is apparently serious about doing the right thing with the potential first kid: He's sporting a 'Bristol' tattoo in the place of an engagement ring, TMZ comments. “In lieu of a tramp stamp,” the celeb site adds... More »

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John McCain • tattoos • engagement • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston

Moderates Feeling Snubbed
at Grand Old Party

Choice of Palin underscores how pro-life wing hamstrings party, some say

Sep 4, 08 3:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Where conservatives once felt uneasy with John McCain, his drift rightward now has moderates wondering if there’s a place for them in the Republican Party, the Chicago Tribune reports. “We are discouraged by the platform,” says one pro-choice Republican, noting that while she was glad to have... More »

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John McCain • conservative • social conservatives • McCain 2008 • moderate • conservative base • the moderate vote • Republican National Convention

OPINION roundup

 'Vicious' Speech Bodes Well 

Commentators weigh in on how Sarah Palin did

Sep 4, 08 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - How’d Sarah Palin do in her convention debut? Commentators agree that she showed impressive speaking skills, but part ways on whether she was convincing as a potential VP.
  • The speech was “great” but “vicious,” Dahlia Lithwick writes at Slate. Palin, uses what Lithwick calls a
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Alaska • Margaret Thatcher • speech • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention • Wasilla

 GOP Throws a Very White Party 

Diversity not strong for GOP

Sep 4, 08 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scan the faces in the Xcel Energy Center, and you’ll see a sea of white. This year’s Republican National Convention is the whitest on record, the Washington Post reports, with just 36 black delegates —out of 2,380. “It’s hard to look around and... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race relations • Republican Party • minorities • black voters • Republican National Convention

analysis

 Palin's Speech 
 a Roaring Success 

Crowd wild for 'sharpshooter' governor

Sep 4, 08 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin "lit up the Republican National Convention last night,” writes Nancy Gibbs in Time. "The hall that felt like a tomb on Monday might as well have seen the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan, so ecstatic was the crowd." As the Alaskan governor spoke amid... More »

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speech • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate • Republican National Convention

OPINION

 Noonan: 'Over' Didn't Mean Mac 

But she does apologize for 'vulgar epithet'

Sep 4, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Columnist Peggy Noonan has been catching flak since being caught on tape saying "It's over" during a frank assessment of John McCain's veep choice. But the Wall Street Journal writer insists she wasn't pronouncing Mac's White House hopes dead —she was simply remarking that the days of the... More »

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John McCain • Republican Party • gaffe • Peggy Noonan • Kay Bailey Hutchison • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention

analysis

 For Palin, Speech 
 Was Easy Part

Real test: can she woo undecideds?

Sep 4, 08 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin earned roars from the primed Republican crowd last night in St. Paul—but it remains to be seen whether she can translate that enthusiasm to undecided voters, writes Adam Nagourney in the New York Times. “It’s more difficult with someone of her background to go on... More »

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vice president • campaign trail • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate • Republican National Convention

(AP) - Republicans have nominated John McCain for president, handing the senator the prize that eluded him eight years ago. By a roll call vote in the wee hours, the Arizona senator clinched his party's nod. The vote was conducted after-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addressed the Republican National Convention. McCain is... More »

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John McCain • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Republican National Convention

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