9/5/2008 — McCain pledges change, touts his experience

9/5/2008 — Matt Towery: From the Screening Room: McCain’s Last Ten Minutes Make Up For the First 35; Networks Ignore What Public Could Not…Demonstrators during Speech
Arguably, John McCain delivered a weightier and more detailed acceptance speech than expected Thursday night, but it was the last 10 minutes of the address that fired-up the convention and seemed likely to move viewers.

9/5/2008 — Obama sends supporters to blunt Palin's impact

9/5/2008 — Hastings Wyman: McCain-Palin Helps Dixie GOPers
John McCain’s stirring address to the Republican Convention in St. Paul, on top of the exciting and impressive performance by running mate Sarah Palin the night before, have set the stage for a hotly contested and very likely close presidential election in November.

9/4/2008 — Recovery

9/4/2008 — Tom Baxter: Republicans return to a strategy of sharp lines and bold colors
The colors America saw as the backdrop to Wednesday night's session of the Republican National Convention -- pulsating reds, dark, rolling waves and stark black-and-white -- were a key to the way John McCain has decided to run his general election campaign.

9/4/2008 — Alaska Maverick

9/4/2008 — Matt Towery: McCain Refuses To 'Quayle' His Running Mate Inside The Numbers
There's a difference in how Republicans are handling the attacks on Sarah Palin versus the assault on Dan Quayle in 1988, and it's a big one. Back then, George H.W. Bush's handlers took the baton of condescension from media and Democrats and used it to effectively spank their own VP candidate as if he were a naughty kid. But McCain has circled the GOP wagon that holds the women and children. He's standing by his woman, and this is anything but Quayle, Part Two.

9/3/2008 — Bush, Lieberman Hail McCain as Leader

9/3/2008 — Hastings Wyman: The Big Distraction
There are two things about the revelation that Sarah Palin’s unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant that everyone agrees on.

9/3/2008 — Vetting of Palin is raising questions

9/3/2008 — John A. Tures: Does Obama's and Palin's 'Inexperience' Matter?
Worried about Illinois Senator Barack Obama's short time in elected office?  Concerned about Sarah Palin's slim resume? 

9/1/2008 — Republicans Curtail Convention Opening Day

9/1/2008 — Start of Republican Convention Is Muted by Storm

9/1/2008 — Tom Baxter: The 'Desperate Housewives' convention: For GOP, one storm is enough
The big worry for the Republicans isn't Hurricane Gustav or the Sarah Palin pregnancy story. It's the two big storms coming after this one.

9/1/2008 — Signs of Hope & Change

9/1/2008 — Hastings Wyman: Grits
Hagan, Perdue Ahead; LA Money News; McAuliffe for Governor; Biden and Thurmond