Hurricanes hold election-year peril for candidates

Associated Press by Ben Feller | Aug. 28, 2012 (News Analysis)

Intent on showing the empathy and crisis leadership voters want, Republicans from Mitt Romney to Southern governors scrambled to shape their tone and tactics Monday as an ominous storm barreled past their national convention site in Tampa, Fla., and toward the broader Gulf Coast. Full Story »

Despite Tropical Storm Isaac and Massive Security, Activists Plan Protest March Outside RNC in Tampa

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Medea Benjamin | Aug. 27, 2012 (News Report)

(Multimedia) Organizers from the Coalition to March on the RNC spent the night encasing their picket signs in plastic. Thousands of law enforcement officers from the local police and ...

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Fact check: How Tropical Storm Isaac is unlike Hurricane Katrina

Poynter Institute | Aug. 27, 2012 (Fact Check)

But these are very different storms. Katrina was so big, hurricane force winds extended 75 miles east of the center. The Weather Channel recounts, “Katrina first hit Florida ...

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Isaac could still wreck GOP convention

CBS News by Brian Montopoli, Lucy Madison | Aug. 28, 2012 (Special Report)

Isaac is currently barreling not toward Tampa but New Orleans -- and it is projected to hit land nearly seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina battered that city. And ...

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