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GOP Convention Succeeds In Catching Media's Eye

by Steve Inskeep, NPR
September 5, 2008

These days, party nominating conventions are events for the media as much as for the delegates. The McCain campaign took its turn carefully crafting its image visually and rhetorically before a captive media crowd this week. Did the GOP accomplish what it set out to achieve in St. Paul?

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  • Morning Edition, September 5, 2008
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