Obama Considers Cutting Convention Short
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 4th, 2008 4:42 am by HL
Obama Considers Cutting Convention Short
According to the Los Angeles Times, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee “are toying with a convention scheduling change that has been broached before in theory but never seriously considered: cutting the party’s conclave in Denver short by one day to give Obama an extra day of post-nomination bounce in the crowded August calendar.”
“Adding to the Democrats’ calculation is the growing speculation that McCain will announce his running mate in the brief intermission between the two conventions — a good way to seize the spotlight from the just-nominated Democrat.”
McCain Uses Loopholes in McCain-Feingold Law
The Wall Street Journal reports that allies of Sen. John McCain “have found new loopholes in the campaign-finance law he helped write — and they’re using them to reel in huge contributions to help him compete with Sen. Barack Obama.”
