Anticipation builds for Barack Obama’s big speech

By Evan Anderson – This is the time when some omnipotent voice comes out of the intercoms shouting, “Def con one. Repeat: we are at Def con one.”
The entire lobby of the hotel has been turned into an Ellis Island émigré holding pen as the non-floor-seated delegates mill about anticipating the moment fast approaching [...]

Iowa is where it all started for Barack Obama

By Rod Boshart – By no surprise, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama carried a lopsided majority of Iowa’s delegation in the roll call vote to nominate Obama as the party’s presidential candidate today during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Obama garnered 48 or Iowa’s 57 nominating votes, while nine Iowa delegates voted for New York Sen. [...]

Pelosi praises Iowa delegation

By Evan Anderson – Making the rounds of the Rialto coffee-computer table still proves satisfying, with various Honored Guest-pass holders and minor media meddlers loitering around hoping for any tidbits or trivia.
Point of fact, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi already has been here and gone, the only person of interest left is Governor Culver milling around [...]

Getting down to politics

By Evan Anderson – If, as the hipster song goes, that you “can’t trust that day,” Monday provided the mindless entertainment for the Iowa delegation while Tuesday is looking more and more productive for politicking.
Sadly however, those within earshot of the appropriate people at the breakfast table learned that Senator Tom Harkin will be departing [...]

Iowa delegates get first taste of convention

By Evan Anderson – Although the stark fields surrounding the Denver International Airport might remind people of Mongolia in the 1965 film, “Doctor Zhivago,” the Democratic Convention is the most colorful scene on the political stage today. DNC volunteers wearing orange shirts greeted the Iowa delegation early Sunday morning with banners and chants happily [...]

Helping launch Obama’s road to the White House a good thing for Iowa delegation

By Rod Boshart – Helping launch the party’s presidential nominee’s road to the White House has its rewards. Iowa’s 57-member delegation is seated in proximity to the rostrum at the Pepsi Center, site for most of the 2008 Democratic National Convention official work and speeches. Other delegations with prime seating locations include Sen. Barack Obama’s [...]

Culver warming up

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver spent some time Sunday in the Pepsi Center practicing for his convention speech on Tuesday. The governor said he did a practice speech and “walk through” for the appearance he is slated to make at about 3 p.m. Mountain time. “It went very well,” he said in preparing for his five-minute [...]