Because Twitter town halls and cool hashtags aren't enough, apparently, President Obama renewed the Democratic National Committee Chair's position via social network Monday afternoon.
While the DNC's TV ratings might not correlate to more votes for Obama, high viewership of either convention may correlate to higher voter turnout, according to this chart by Jordan Ragusa on the blog Rule 22.
If a convention speaker can "win" Twitter, President Obama, whose speech last night spurred nearly 53,000 tweets per minute at one point, won by a long shot according to Twitter's blog.
During his speech last night President Obama made an unplanned reference to Steve Jobs, which is weird because the two didn't have the best relationship, nor was Jobs that categorically great for America.
Mitt Romney said on Thursday he hasn’t been watching the Democratic National Convention and has no plans to tune in for President Obama’s speech, although he acknowledged that he’s heard some details about what the president will address.
Fourteen years ago there was a sex scandal that rocked our nation to its core. In the wake of Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC, it rears rears its increasingly tepid head yet again. Lewinsky is a long legacy for former President Bill Clinton, but it's also a rather impotent one.
Jon Stewart knows the Democratic Party is super tolerant and sent his news team to the convention to find out just how inclusive and tolerant they really are last night on The Daily Show. The result: Democrats want to include everybody! Sort of.
Three beautiful, award-winning actresses will be appearing at one of Hollywood For Ugly People's biggest events. Elsewhere in showbiz news: Showtime gets in the Bob De Niro business, Vivica A. Fox gets in the Lifetime business, and Richard Linklater pulls a fast one on us.
With Senator John Kerry's speech at the Democratic National Convention drawing closer by the minute and Hillary Clinton's retirement from government looming, reporters in Charlotte have once again fallen in love with one of Washington's worst-kept secrets: Kerry wants to be Secretary of State.
In an era of crunched budgets and with Republicans in particular broadcasting a message of economic gloom, party planning and the all-important schmoozing it facilitates have gotten trickier for the droves of Washington organizations that want a presence at the end-of-summer conventions in Tampa and Charlotte.
The Democratic Party appears likely to put support for same-sex marriage on its platform this year, a move that months ago would have been interesting for putting the party at odds with President Obama, but following his personal support for marriage equality, now serves as a big sign of how far the issue has advanced
The Republican National Committee apparently liked one former Democratic National Committee staffer's clever microsite knocking Republican then-candidate Tim Pawlenty so much, they decided to just, uh, repurpose it.
Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus denied that his party has a woman problem in a way that made a feminist argument, even if it was on accident: women shouldn't be considered a special interest group, but maybe old men should.
The other day The New York Times suggested Romney had raised more than Obama, today the Washington Post's clearing things up.
Meanwhile, Democrats rush to take credit for the news
Obama tapped the Florida congresswoman for her fundraising and talking head skills
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