Little Village’s “First in the Nation” election coverage team filed dispatches from the first Presidential Debate. Detroit-based Katie McGowan went to Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe & Bookstore in the Highland Park […]
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GOP Convention Update: Is this what America looks like?
Condoleezza Rice: “I do think Mitt Romney is speaking to black voters.”
GOP Convention Update: Profiling
Convention crowds gather around people of celebrity. For a person who watches little to no television and pays limited attention to the mainstream media, these characters are often unidentifiable save […]
GOP Convention Update: r3VOLution
Tea Party Patriots litter the crowd, causing the occasional minor stir. Small groups leave the convention hall in protest chanting, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.” Despite best efforts, […]
GOP Convention Update: The Village People Delegation
One convention video featured talking heads repeating the phrase, “I am an American, not a bump on the road.”
GOP Convention Update: AC/DC
“It began with a perfect Triple-A credit rating for the United States; it ends with a downgraded America,” Ryan laments. He adds anecdotes about small town America, family life on […]
GOP Convention Update: “We Have Become Paralyzed by Our Desire to Be Loved”
Gov. Chris Christie explains, “Tonight we’re going to choose respect over love.”
GOP Convention Update: Surprise!
I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside I’ve got the month of May. I guess you’d say What can make me feel this way? My girl…talkin’ […]
GOP Convention Update: “I love you WOMEN!”
Mass-produced, handmade signs created by Convention operations staff proclaim, “We <3 you Ann” and “Women love Ann,” appear just in time for Mrs. Romney’s Tuesday night marquee speech. In response, […]
GOP Convention Update: We Met at a High School Dance
“Tonight I want to talk with you from my heart about our hearts,” Ann Romney gushes. She discusses her husband’s kind heart, their children, and her love for women.
GOP Convention Update: Patriots and Pioneers
“We will roll back Obamacare on day one!” [U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (NH)] In Marxist theory, the term “false consciousness” refers to the ways in which the proletariat […]
GOP Convention Update: Tools of the Trade
Personal responsibility, fiscal accountability, and rugged individualism are leitmotifs during Tuesday afternoon’s session.