Four years after lambasting the Supreme Court for opening the door to unlimited money, the president is all in
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Biden Rallies Democrats: ‘There Is No Republican Party’
Vice president strikes a confident note ahead of midterm elections
Project Ivy: Democrats Taking Obama Technology Down Ballot
Fifteen months after the 2012 presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee announced a new effort Monday to make the advanced data tools used by the Obama campaign available to Democratic candidates across the …
What You Missed While Not Watching the Second Night of the Democratic Convention
5 p.m. The first night was mystical, magical, all “Kumbaya,” cheers and tears. The second night begins with chaos and discord. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tries to amend the platform to deal with GOP criticism, adding …
A Different Kind of Hope: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro Addresses the DNC
Stop me if this sounds familiar: a talented young Democratic politician, a Harvard Law grad raised by a single mother, said to be the future of his party, gets the keynote address at the Democratic convention. In 2004, this story …
No More Drama: Bill Clinton Makes His Case for Obama
Charlotte, N.C.
Bill Clinton has given some awkward convention speeches in his day. There was his infamous 1988 keynote address, when the young Clinton had too much to prove and spent too much time proving it: …
The First Lady Argues for a Second Term: Michelle Obama’s Convention Speech
On Tuesday night Michelle Obama bared her arms, held America’s hand and threw some elbows. In delivering one of the most impassioned convention speeches in recent memory, the vibrant First Lady framed President Obama’s …
What You Missed While Not Watching the First Night of the Democratic Convention
6 p.m. Democrats do it differently. Toss out the ties and pearls for union tees and floral prints. Trade the handclaps for fist pumps. Lose the house band and bring the noise. Not an hour into the first night of the Democratic …
Behind the Cover: Obama Makes His Way to the DNC
Interview: Obama on Partisanship and Getting Things Done in Washington
White House correspondent Michael Scherer spoke with President Obama aboard Air Force One on Aug. 21 for the Sept. 10 issue of TIME, now available online to subscribers. (Also in the magazine: David Von Drehle on Joe Biden’s art …
The New DNC Chair Unveils a Tougher Tone
Vowing to help assemble “the most robust, aggressive presidential campaign in history,” Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, lashed Barack Obama’s Republican opponents in terms the …
What Pawlenty Said
The Democratic National Committee has been having fun with my recent profile of Tim Pawlenty–specifically by bashing him, as this video does, for allegedly responding “I don’t know, I wish I had a good answer for you” when I asked him why he’s running for President.
But that’s a distortion of our exchange.
Joe Barton Was Right, He Still Thinks (Or At Least His Staff Does) UPDATED
The gift that keeps on giving for Democrats: As Dave Weigel reports, Barton offered the following tweet just hours after getting news that he would not be stripped of his ranking status on the House Energy Committee.
Now the DNC can spend the rest of the day emailing this news to reporters, supporters and fundraisers.
UPDATE: …