A group of Democrats from Western states, led by Utah, is trying to take advantage of the curiosity about Mormonism this year to raise the profile of those Latter-day Saints who vote Democrat.
He’s likable enough. Barack Obama, in one of his more revealing public moments in 2008, expressed that sentiment about another Clinton. It also sums up, more or less, the way the current occupant of the White House feels about the last Democratic president to win re-election, William Jefferson Clinton.
First lady Michelle Obama lovingly praised her husband Tuesday night in a prime-time Democratic Convention speech as a devoted husband and caring father at home and a "man we can trust" to revive the nation's weak economy as president.
In Washington, President Barack Obama often looks to Harry Reid to promote and defend his policies against his political rivals. In Charlotte, Reid assumed the same role as he addressed the Democratic National Convention on its opening night.
By Calvin Woodward and Julie Pace, Associated Press
Democrats open their national convention Tuesday offering President Barack Obama as America's best chance to revive the ragged U.S. economy and asking voters to be patient with incomplete results so far. Michelle Obama, in her opening-night speech, aims to give people a very personal reminder of "the man that he was before he was president."
Sen. Harry Reid plans to keep up the pressure on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns during Reid's speech to the Democratic National Convention tonight, scheduled for about 4 p.m. Pacific time.
When the head of the Democratic Governors Association spoke to the Nevada delegation Monday morning, he made an effort to build up President Barack Obama and tear down Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval.
There’s an unofficial race among states in an election season like this one: To see which swing state is the most important to the party. And Nevada may have won.
Nevada’s delegates joined teams from other states late Monday morning to paint walls and hammer nails into a modular home intended for a yet-to-be-named military veteran in suburban Charlotte.
This week, when Nevada’s delegates gather for their daily state breakfast meetings, they will be feted by practically every Democratic party A-lister short of President Barack Obama.
Nevada Democrats face a challenge perhaps more daunting than the rivalry over who should be their nominee, a predicament that ensnared their Republican counterparts in Tampa.
The major political parties are meeting this week in Tampa, Fla., and next week in Charlotte, N.C., but at least one Las Vegas venue wants its patrons to be able to partake in the atmosphere of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions — at least in spirit.
