Veteran Chicago actor - and current star of CSI:NY - Gary Sinise. Who says all of Hollywood is liberal?
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Veteran Chicago actor - and current star of CSI:NY - Gary Sinise. Who says all of Hollywood is liberal?
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Water fills a low area near the Eastside of the Industrial Canal as Hurricane Gustav came through afternoon Sept. 1, 2008, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brian Lawdermilk)
Barack Obama's campaign sent an e-mail to his donor list on Monday soliciting donations to the American Red Cross or through his Web site. John McCain's campaign also asked for financial assistance on his Web site and both sites allowed for donations by state.
The Rocky Mountain News put together this piece to summarize the Democratic National Convention, but also to clarify the city's part in it. Interesting insight from Denverites, politicians and journalists who covered the event.
University of Chicago graduate Nate SIlver has a degree in economics, but a passion in getting to the meaning behind the numbers of baseball ad politics. Silver started his blog, www.fivethirtyeight.com, as a way of scrubbing all manner of polls in a quest to weed through the nonsense and find out what numbers a re trustworthy.
Facebook wunderkind Chris Hughes, now working with the Obama campaign on technology and social networking issues, admits that the big buildup around the promised vice president text message alert was botched. Still got all those phone number in the Obama system, though.
NEW YORK (AP) _ Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history.
More people watched Obama speak from a packed stadium in Denver on Thursday than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final "American Idol" or the Academy Awards this year, Nielsen Media Research said Friday. (Four playoff football games, including the Super Bowl between the Giants and Patriots, were seen by more than 40 million people.)
His TV audience nearly doubled the amount of people who watched John Kerry accept the Democratic nomination to run against President Bush four years ago. Kerry's speech was seen by a little more than 20 million people; Bush's acceptance speech to GOP delegates had 27.6 million viewers.
Through four days, the Democratic convention was seen in an average of 22.5 million households. No other convention -- Republican or Democratic -- had been seen in as many homes since Nielsen began keeping these records for the Kennedy-Nixon campaign in 1960. There weren't enough television sets in American homes to have possibly beaten this record in years before that.
Here's Obama on his big night at Invesco Field in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
Here's a photographic look at the night, with full audio of the speech included.
We ran into this random homeless guy on California Street in downtown Denver - I thought they swept them all out of town, but the security is much more lax today. Turns out he's from Chicago and asked us to tell his mother he's OK.
So, Marian Jenkins, Franklin's OK. Though he does say he lost some teeth - and there's a connection to Obama. Watch the video and see for yourself.
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Convention news
Looking for the latest news from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions? Visit the Sweet blog where Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet tracks the latest news out of the convention.
