Author: BooMan

Back when Teddy Kennedy decided to endorse Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in January 2008, the New York Times reported that part of his decision had to do with an argument Kennedy had on the telephone with former President...

The 1944 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago from July 19-21. Our landing at Normandy began on June 6th. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a little too busy to attend the convention that year, but he did manage to...

Ohio is a crucial state in the November election. And Romney isn’t doing well enough there to win. The following analysis may have come from Karl Rove: On the eve of the Republican convention, a senior strategist with a...

If video killed the radio star, it appears that the internet killed the political convention bounce. Between 1968 and 1992, the only challenger not to get a double digit bounce out of his convention was George McGovern, and he...

To the degree that The Hill’s Alexander Bolton and Peter Schroeder are just reporting what Republicans are saying, their article is fine. But what about this? But it was [Paul] Ryan’s Wednesday night speech that was widely...