"THE CONTENDER" Rod Lurie's drama, which has strong advance word of mouth, stars Joan Allen as a popular senator whose nomination for vice president is thrown into doubt by a looming sex scandal.
In "The Contender," a political thriller set to open on Friday, Ms. Allen, a 44-year-old Tony winner and two-time Oscar nominee who has earned awards from national and regional film critics associations, plays a highly principled United States senator whose nomination for vice president stirs up a long-buried sex scandal.
ON the same night that Gov. Sarah Palin accepted the Republican nomination for vice president, a public affairs class at Baruch College in Manhattan vigorously debated her qualifications to stand, as the cliché has it, a heartbeat from the Oval Office.
At the 1920 Democratic convention Roosevelt won the nomination for vice president on a ticket with presidential nominee James M. Cox.
John Edwards, accepting his party's nomination for vice president, roused a cheering crowd at the 2004 Democratic convention with the kind of buoyant refrain that had become his trademark: "Hope is on the way".
Hobart described his subsequent first-ballot nomination for vice president as a tribute from his friends, but Hatfield noted, "it came equally as a tribute from [Hanna, who] wanted a ticket to satisfy the business interests of America, and Hobart, a corporate lawyer, fit that requirement perfectly".
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who strode onto a podium in 1984 to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party, died Saturday in Boston.
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who strode onto a podium in 1984 to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party, died on Saturday in Boston.
If there was any redemption in Smith's career, it is to be found in the fact that he helped break down the walls of prejudice in American society, not only leading to Kennedy's election in 1960 but very likely to the nomination for vice president of Joseph Lieberman, the first Jew on a major party's ticket -- an act in the finest tradition of Alfred E. Smith.
TAMPA, Fla .— Paul D. Ryan will take the stage at the Republican National Convention here on Wednesday to accept his party's nomination for vice president, but around the country, his plan for a sweeping remake of Medicare is shaking up Congressional campaigns, in some cases allowing Democrats to make inroads in races in which they were once seen as dead in the water.
