WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – National political conventions are often considered infomercials for the major party’s candidates, but this year the events will also let Democrats and Republicans focus ...

Everything kicks off with Iowa's caucuses. The 2024 presidential race kicks off on Monday night in Iowa, when the state holds its first-in-the-nation caucuses. New Hampshire's primary will be held ...

The Democratic Party that convenes in Boston this week now bears the same name as the one that convened in Chicago 72 years ago, but not much else is the same. Quite apart from the innumerable ways in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has held presidential nominating conventions for almost 200 years, and they have served in recent decades as an important televised introduction to each ...

President Trump has given up on holding a typical political convention in Jacksonville next month as Florida remains a coronavirus hotspot. Democrats have long planned a mostly virtual gathering to ...

There are many reasons why national political conventions have become so clichéd and boring. The central one is this: they’re all about preaching to the converted. Even Clint Eastwood’s infamously ...