ST. PAUL, Minn. - Their political celebration muted by Hurricane Gustav, disappointed delegates to the Republican National Convention could do little Monday but await the outcome of the storm before gauging its further impact on their four-day gathering. ...more

September 1, 2008

A walk through the seating floor of the Pepsi Center at the Democratic National Convention in Denver yields some quick evidence that Sen. Barack Obama intends to make Florida one of the premier battleground states of his presidential campaign. ...more

August 25, 2008

Here are the delegates from the Tampa Bay area and other notable Florida delegates to the Democratic National Convention: ...more

August 24, 2008

It is "pretty likely" Florida's 210 delegates will have full voting rights at the Democratic National Convention, says the co-chairman of the panel that will decide that issue. ...more

August 19, 2008

Now that Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, he says convention delegates from Florida and Michigan should have full voting rights at the party's national convention. ...more

August 3, 2008

An obscure subset of the Democratic National Committee today could help write the final chapter to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. ...more

May 31, 2008

Even as Sen. Barack Obama's supporters were saying the dispute over the Florida and Michigan convention delegates no longer matters, that dispute intensified Thursday with a new lawsuit and threat of a convention floor fight. ...more

May 23, 2008

Florida Democrats say they have no plans to take a second swipe at holding a presidential selection process so that delegates from the state might be seated at the party's presidential nominating convention. ...more

February 7, 2008

The woman who oversaw a federal report documenting voter disenfranchisement during Florida's disputed 2000 presidential election is asking the Democratic Party to settle a fight with Florida and Michigan before the party harms itself. ...more

February 5, 2008

SEBRING — The head of Florida's Democratic Party has assured Highlands County's rank and file that its delegates will be seated at the national convention, Aug. 25-28, in Denver. Karen L. Thurman, who chairs the state party, is "confident that when it is all said and done, our delegation will ... travel to Denver for the National Convention," said Pam Holt, a spokeswoman for the Highlands County party. That's true, said Mark Bubriski, communications director, and it's coming from other party leaders as well. By August, he reasoned, the primaries will be long gone, and so will be the issue of which state held its election first. In eight months, the more important issue will be whether the Democratic Party really wants to upset the voters of Florida and Michigan. ...more

December 24, 2007