Sen. John McCain may be the Republican presidential nominee, but Gov. Sarah Palin is stealing the show at the RNC even before her highly anticipated speech tonight. At the Alabama delegate’s breakfast today, two of the morning’s speakers praised Palin as the vice presidential nominee.

Mike DuHaime, political director for the McCain campaign, said that [...]

I learned last night that I should be careful of who I ask for directions. When I tried to ask a few police officers for directions when I left the Xcel Center Tuesday night, some were as confused as I was because they aren’t St. Paul natives either. Police forces from as far away as [...]

While many bloggers I’ve met here in St. Paul have complained about the seats the RNC gave to the “New Media” at the convention, I thought my view made the opening night on Tuesday a lot more entertaining. “Blogger Row” is basically in the highest level of seats in the stadium looking at the back [...]

I’m going to to try to clarify what I’ve been told about what happened yesterday when a brick was thrown at a bus carrying members of the Alabama delegation at the RNC.

A member of the delegation said today that the brick did not break through the window, but it did severely crack the windshield [...]

Despite the cooling weather and strong breeze all day, about five people sported shorts, flip-flops and t-shirts to advertise political footwear from www.flopyourvote.com. The red version of the flip-flops have rubber beads shaped like Sen. John McCain’s head attached to the shoe. The blue version includes rubber beads shaped like Sen. Barack Obama.

Some of [...]

Before he gives his speech at the Xcel Energy Center tonight, Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., spoke to a group of bloggers this morning about Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and what he thinks of the media’s coverage.

After running against him for a few months, Thompson said the most important thing he has learned [...]

So I have been in Minnesota for one hour and 10 minutes, and I have already seen enough protesters and heard enough wild rumors to keep the security forces busy for a long, long time. Most of the streets leading to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul are blocked by protesters. Chains of people [...]