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‘The hoarse whisperer’ electrifies his audience
Bill Clinton rolls back the years with a performance worthy of a superstar at the Democratic convention. Matt Frei blogs from Charlotte.
Did he really say “America” 52 times? Compare the presidential acceptance speeches of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, using our Snowcloud word cruncher.
Bill Clinton rolls back the years with a performance worthy of a superstar at the Democratic convention. Matt Frei blogs from Charlotte.
In a bravura performance from the ultimate comeback kid, Bill Clinton embraces Barack Obama on stage at the Democratic convention after urging voters to give the president four more years in the job.
The USA’s “mom-in-chief”, Michelle Obama, uses her maternal image to empathise with the pain of a nation.
Beyond differences of name, race and speech, Obama and Romney are remarkably similar, blogs Matt Frei. Which is why he needs to give his audience a clear and bold idea of what he has in mind.
Dirty Harry concluded his senior moment by drawing a doddery finger across his throat. The hall went wild but watching from their box the spray-on smiles of the Romney family cracked like plaster.
Not just a leader, but a family man, a man of faith: this was Mitt Romney’s chance to introduce himself, not just to Republican activists, but to the nation. So how well did he do?
The race to the White House is closer than we Brits think, Matt Frei, Washington correspondent writes.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan has vowed to turn around America’s economy in a prime-time speech at the Republican party convention in Tampa, Florida.
There is political rhetoric – and then there are facts. Paul Ryan wowed delegates at the Republican National Convention – but his remarks have been slated for playing fast and loose with the truth.
You heard me. President Romney. Prepare to get used to it. Just as America was ready for a change in 2008, it is ready for change once again, writes Matt Frei from the Republican convention.
Thanks to the weather America is talking more about Isaac than Mitt this week and that is just rotten bad luck for the Republicans.
It is the story of a mid-western state that has undergone a tumultuous conversion, from a laid back, progressive liberal vibe, to a virulent conservatism, writes Felicity Spector.
It’s not easy being a Republican woman right now, what with the Todd Akin rape scandal, a hardline abortion platform and gaping gender gap to overcome. Can the convention help turn things around?
Despite the parlous state of the US economy, the Republican party is wrestling with questions of rape, abortion and birth control as they head for a potentially feisty party convention.