Conventions Are Over, This Race Is On

By National Journal Staff September 7, 2012

Full Text of the Speeches

Democrats: ♦ Barack Obama   ♦ Bill Clinton   ♦ Joe Biden   ♦ John Kerry   ♦ Elizabeh Warren    ♦ Julián Castro   ♦ Jennifer Granholm 

Republicans:   ♦ Mitt Romney   ♦ Paul Ryan   ♦ Ann Romney   ♦ Marco Rubio   ♦ Chris Christie   ♦ Jeb Bush   ♦ Newt and Callista Gingrich
PODCAST September 8, 2012

Obama on Reddit, Pelosi on Taking the House, Howard Dean and Sen. Barrasso on Energy Policy

The Political Landscape  is a weekly podcast where we discuss the news of the day with leading experts. This week we’re all things Democratic convention. National Journal reporters shifted from Tampa, Fla., to Charlotte, N.C., to get the Democratic take on the issues from their party leaders. Like last week, our podcast will be broken down into three segments featuring the best from our on-the-scene panel discussions in Charlotte. After hearing from Mitt Romney’s camp last week about  its superior social media outreach  last week, it seemed only fair to give the Obama team a chance to respond in our first segment. Obama chief digital strategist Joe Rospars will explain  his campaign's strategy  and why the  President did an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit . Read more »
September 8, 2012

Video Highlights from the 2012 Conventions

See the highlights from from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Read more »
HUMOR September 7, 2012

Voice Votes: Democratic Convention Edition

Welcome to this week’s Voice Votes, a feature in which we grade the week’s headlines—and poke fun at them. You can join the fun by suggesting your own #win, #fail, and #meh candidates via Twitter. (Send tweets  @nationaljournal ). Need more space? E-mail suggestions to  Readers@nationaljournal.com  or  leave us a comment on Facebook . We’ll publish the best suggestions in this space every week and credit the authors. Read more »
CONVENTIONS 2012 September 7, 2012

Gallup: Signs of an Obama Convention Bounce

This week's Democratic National Convention has delivered a bump in President Obama's poll numbers, according to new Gallup data released on Friday that show Obama out-bouncing Mitt Romney in the immediate wake of his party's gathering. Read more »
CONVENTIONS 2012 September 7, 2012

Clint Eastwood: No Regrets Over Convention Speech

Clint Eastwood has no regrets over his now-famous 12-minute tirade to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention, the acting and directing icon said in an interview with the Carmel Pine Cone . Read more »
CONVENTIONS 2012 September 7, 2012

Tweeting the DNC: A Big Spike for Obama

Convention-related Twitter chatter spiked last night as President Obama concluded his remarks on the closing night of the Democratic National Convention, according to data supplied by Twitter. Read more »
HUMOR September 7, 2012

Conventions Are Over, Now Americans Can Focus on What's Really Important: Football

After many standing ovations and much shouting of "whoo," the Democrats are wrapping up their convention and are heading home, except for Bill Clinton, who is expected to conclude his remarks sometime around Halloween. Read more »
September 6, 2012

VIDEO: President Obama's Speech to the Democratic Convention

Watch President Obama's full speech and acceptance of the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States of America. Read more »
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