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What Is a US Convention Delegate?
American voters select candidates, parties pick delegates. From Alaska to Alabama, Delaware to California presidential candidates will be chosen eventually by delegates.
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The Democratic National Convention
With the double-speak of a George Orwell novel, this year's Democratic National Convention is shaping up to be a contentious encounter between titans Obama and Clinton.
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What Is Super Tuesday in America
Political party selections will take place from California to New York. With 3133* Democratic and Republican delegates available, from 24 diverse states; what is it?
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How to Understand the US Presidential Elections
The method for selecting US Presidents is difficult to comprehend. Primaries, caucuses, delegates, conventions and the daunting Electoral College are intimidating events.
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Third Time's The Charm, Part II
William Jennings Bryan was the only person to be runner-up in a Presidential election three times. He was also the youngest person ever nominated for President by a major political party. Although his government service only included four years in the U.S. House of Representatives and two years as Secretary of State, he had a dramatic effect on U.S. politics at the turn of the century, and started the movement that eventually became the modern Democratic Party.
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Review of 1960 By David Pietrusza
David Pietrusza offers an excellent account of the groundbreaking 1960 presidential campaign and election.
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African American Voting Patterns
African Americans show an unwavering loyalty towards the Democratic Party. This loyalty coupled with an increase in Black turnout could deliver Democrats the Presidency.
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How Obama Can End the Primary Race
Sen. Barack Obama is close to clinching the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Now he can remove the final rationale for Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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New Orleans Mother's Restaurant
For 70 years Mother's has been a favorite of longshoremen, reporters, attorneys, conventioneers, secretaries and mothers, too, though not necessarily on Mother's Day.
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What Is the Texas Two-Step Primary
Unlike most primaries in the USA's Democratic presidential selection process, Texas citizens can vote anytime during a two week period, twice - the Texas Two-Step.
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How Dry We Were: The Repeal of Prohibition
Progressivism reached high tide during the "war to end all wars"; when the tide went out prohibition remained. Most Americans held their nose through the 20s and early 30s until national prohibition was swept away. Here is the story of the only repudiation of a constitutional amendment.
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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, THE GREAT COMMONER, PART I
William Jennings Bryan was one of only two men nomonated for president three times, and the only man to be runner-up three times. Read how he built the first modern Democratic Party coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
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Synod President A.L. Barry dies in Orlando hospital
The Rev. Dr. A.L. Barry, who had served since 1992 as president of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, died at at 10:15 p.m. March 23 in an Orlando, Fla., hospital. As a service to a Lutherans, and documenting Lutheran history, I have recorded the LCMS press release here.
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