Changes

===Democratic National Convention===

===Democratic National Convention===

[[Image:democraticpartyusalogo.png|right|200px]] The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be held in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], August 25 to August 27 at Pepsi Center. There they will select Senator Obama and his running mate to be the party nominee's. Barack Obama will accept the party's nomination in front of a crowd of more than 75,000 in a free, open event to be held at INVESCO Field at Mile High, in a platform resemblant to a Greek temple. House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] is the Permanent Chair of the Convention.

[[Image:democraticpartyusalogo.png|right|200px]] The 2008 Democratic National Convention was held in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], from August 25 to August 27 at Pepsi Center. There, Senator Obama and his running mate were selected to be the party nominee's. Barack Obama will accepted the party's nomination in front of a crowd of more than 75,000 in a free, open event held at INVESCO Field at Mile High, in a platform resemblant to a Greek temple. House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] is the Permanent Chair of the Convention.

The convention had a rocky start as friction between supporters of Obama and the Clintons was not resolved.  Instead of Obama getting a bump in the polls, his support actually declined.  The Democrats also seemed to be at odds on finding a unifying strategy for how hard to attack John McCain and how to present it.  As Democratic pundit James Carville said in an interview on [[CNN]], "If this party has a message, it's done a <heck> of a job hiding it tonight, I promise you that."<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080826/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_rdp</ref>

The convention had a rocky start as friction between supporters of Obama and the Clintons was not resolved.  Instead of Obama getting a bump in the polls, his support actually declined.  The Democrats also seemed to be at odds on finding a unifying strategy for how hard to attack John McCain and how to present it.  As Democratic pundit James Carville said in an interview on [[CNN]], "If this party has a message, it's done a <heck> of a job hiding it tonight, I promise you that."<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080826/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_rdp</ref>