This year’s Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, a Democratic power center that has hosted more national political conventions than any other U.S. city. The first Chicago Democratic ...

Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets of Milwaukee on Monday afternoon in a tightly organized protest against the presence of the Republican National Convention in the city.

Delegates to the Republican National Convention stage a huge demonstration for Senator Barry Goldwater, after his name was placed in nomination for the Presidency. Bettmann / Getty Images There ...

One action or law that violates the letter or established interpretation of the Constitution may simply be unconstitutional, ...

AP Images Theodore Roosevelt giving a campaign speech. Barry Goldwater supporters at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Truman committed the Democrats to civil rights. After the party ...

It's a presidential election year, which means the party conventions are a fixture on the summer schedules of every political pundit and reporter. In the past, the big conventions were gatherings ...

San Diego has never hosted a national political convention, and California has not hosted a Republican convention since 1964, when Barry Goldwater was nominated in San Francisco. Current ...

Vance focused almost exclusively on the U.S., alluding only generally to NAFTA and the war in Iraq as factors that shaped his political outlook ... third night of the convention unfolded in ...

Prior to direct primaries, party nominees were chosen by delegates at political conventions, where "back room" deals often reigned. The "Crawford County System" of direct primaries gradually ...

Republican presidential hopefuls Dole ... Instead, the party will select its nominee by convention later in 1996. December 19: Ohio election officials become the first state to say the Reform ...

Baraka sent the letter to four Democratic opponents: U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey ...

But that often happens to students in National Party Conventions, a three-credit experiential course taught at PennWest by political science professor Kevan Yenerall. In it, students analyze and ...