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More Occupiers protest Democratic convention than RNC

Yahoo! News by Liz Goodwin | Sep. 3, 2012 (News Report)

About a half a mile away from the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, more than 100 protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement are camped out in tents and on sleeping pads in a sweltering local park. The protest turnout has already far exceeded that of Tampa, when the threat of a hurricane derailed East Coast activists' plans to come down by bus and camp out in a tent city they dubbed "Romneyville." Full Story »

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Topics: Democrats, Presidential Election 2012
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Posted by: Posted by Pamela Hogle - Sep 4, 2012 - 12:03 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Author Raymond Sturgis (review), Ellie Kesselman (review)
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Edited by: Ellie Kesselman - Sep 5, 2012 - 6:18 PM PDT

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 by Author Raymond Sturgis - Sep. 4, 2012

The reason there are more Occupiers because the weather kept many of them away.

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