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How Many Cops Does it Take to Usher a Crowd?

August 28, 2008 Like 0 editor

How is it that nearly 80,000 Broncos fans can enter Mile High Stadium just moment before kick off and face a line of no longer than 15 minutes, but when Sen. Barack Obama is in town it takes upwards of…

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A Tough Act to Follow for Biden

August 28, 2008 Like 0 editor

President Bill Clinton could read a Denny’s menu and make it sound moving and inspirational. But give the man the time and he never fails to craft a speech that, when delivered with his exquisite inflection and timing, becomes classic…

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Mile High is Not the Only Tough Ticket in Town

August 28, 2008 Like 0 editor

Barack Obama will speak in front of 75,000 plus people at Invesco Field tonight. It’s the toughest ticket in town. Perhaps the second most difficult ticket to find is to get into the Boulder Theatre tonight for a live simulcast…

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As Good as Advertised

August 28, 2008 Like 0 editor

Throughout my teenage years, I watched Bill Clinton give numerous speeches on television, from the State of the Union address to the day he finally admitted his infidelity.

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Is This a Party, or Convention?

August 28, 2008 Like 0 editor

Like the nerd who finds himself making out with the bodacious cheerleader, Denver can’t believe what it’s gotten itself into. The celebrities alone have cost the big print dailies an extra $11,457 a day in BOLD FACE TYPE. And Penny…

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Hillary Supporters Feel Scorned

August 27, 2008 Like 0 editor

It’s early evening at the convention center and groupies are gearing up, literally, for Hillary’s Big Speech. Green-shirted volunteers carry large boxes of long, rectangular Hillary signs stapled on cardboard tubes into the tunnels leading to the convention floor. Bundles…

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Barack’s Support from a Super Bowl MVP

August 27, 2008 Like 0 editor

You wouldn’t think that jewelry could sway an election. But sometimes a ring (or four of them) has a little extra bling.

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Perspective from the Alabama Statehouse

August 27, 2008 Like 0 editor

Earl F. Hilliard Jr. is looking for a needle in a haystack. He’d absolutely love to find a John Edwards delegate today. There are about 25 of them here today, the day Democrats make official what has been known for…

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Star Struck

August 27, 2008 Like 0 editor

Day one I got run over by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House. I got pushed into the set that Sen. John Kerry was being interviewed on. My eyes spied Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper.

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Unity and a Man from Montana

August 26, 2008 Like 0 editor

Hillary Clinton and her Sisterhood of the Traveling Suit Pants took the Pepsi Center by storm tonight. Her job with the keynote speech of the second evening of the Democratic National Convention was to preach unity.