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Can Obama Win a 2nd Term With 1 Speech?
(The Root) — Last week’s Republican National Convention provided a powerful reminder that while most political speeches are rarely memorable, the really bad ones tend to be unforgettable. Actor Clint Eastwood’s prime-time conversation with a chair — which he referred to as the invisible President Obama — became an instant Twitter hit, with @InvisibleObama becoming…
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Can the President's Convention Speech Save his Campaign?
Last week’s Republican National Convention provided a powerful reminder that while most political speeches are rarely memorable, the really bad ones tend to be unforgettable. Actor Clint Eastwood’s primetime conversation with a chair—who he referred to as the invisible President Obama—became an instant twitter hit, with @InvisibleObama becoming a twitter handle before night’s end. (At…
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Mrs. Obama at the DNC: 8 Best Moments
(The Root) — Though there is no official contest for first lady, that doesn’t stop the media from covering the unofficial campaign for the role, with first lady Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech last night in Charlotte, N.C., being framed as reply to Ann Romney’s RNC address. Yet whether or not a spouse can…
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Was Mitt Romney Upstaged by a Chair?
(The Root) — The final night of a political convention is supposed to be the most predictable. The party nominee comes out, officially accepts his nomination and then delivers a speech that he hopes, at its best, boosts his candidacy and at its worst, doesn’t hurt it. Well, the final night of the 2012 Republican…
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RNC Speeches: Ryan Was Good; Rice Was Great
(The Root) — The first rule of medicine is “do no harm.” You could say this is the first rule of giving a political speech, too. It’s harder than it sounds, particularly when you are speaking on behalf of someone else. History is littered with instances in which someone who was supposed to help a…
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Allen West on Critics and Liberal Racism
(The Root) — We caught up with Florida Rep. Allen West at a luncheon for African-American Republicans, organized by young black conservative Stephen Lackey and co-hosted by John Daniels Jr., a black Harvard Law School classmate of Gov. Mitt Romney. West has drawn fire for once alleging that President Obama wanted Americans to “be his slave,”…
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5 Takeaways From the GOP Convention
(The Root) — Everyone knows that the most important parts of any book, movie or TV show are the beginning and the end. Those are the parts people tend to remember most vividly after the last page has been turned or the credits have begun to roll. The same can be said for political conventions.…
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The GOP Falls Crazy in 'Love'
(The Root) — Though Ann Romney was billed as the leading lady of tonight’s Republican National Convention, like many leading ladies she came close to having her spotlight stolen by a younger, up-and-coming starlet. Thirty-seven-year-old Saratoga Springs, Utah, Mayor Mia Love had the GOP crowd on their feet with her feisty speech about freedom, entrepreneurship…
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Interracial Political Couples
Keli Goff is The Root’s special correspondent. Follow her on Twitter.
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Where Are Politics' Interracial Couples?
(The Root) — Though the latest census data confirms that the number of interracial couples in America has grown significantly in recent years, there is still one place in American society where their numbers remain largely invisible: the campaign trail. Despite our country electing a president who is of mixed race, mixed-race couples remain a…
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