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ProgressiveEconomist

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Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:33 PM Sep 2012

Final Convention Night Speaker Schedule (from C-SPAN.org and demconvention.com)

Thursday, September 6th, Eastern time. Selected highlights

From http://www.c-span.org/DNC/Schedule/ and http://www.demconvention.com/speakers/

06:00pm Rep John Lewis (D-GA)--Powerful speech on vote suppression)

07:40pm Rep James E Clyburn (D-SC)
08:00pm Caroline Kennedy

08:08pm Rep Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
08:17pm Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
08:25pm Obama Campaign Co-Chair Eva Longoria

08:30pm Charlie Crist Jr, Former Republican Gov of FL and 2010 'Independent' Senate Candidate against Kendrick Meek (D) and Marco Rubio (R)

08:45pm Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts
09:10pm (ET) Dr Jill Biden

09:25pm (ET) Vice President Joe Biden
10:15pm (ET) President Barack Obama

Notes: This is not the full schedule, but rather just my personal list of the speakers I want to be sure not to miss, and of a speech I heard that I want to hear again. For the full schedule, see the links at the top of this OP.

Revised times came from the bottom of the CSPAN screen a few minutes ago.

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Final Convention Night Speaker Schedule (from C-SPAN.org and demconvention.com) (Original Post) ProgressiveEconomist Sep 2012 OP
Can't wait to see Jennifer Granholm. n/t RebelOne Sep 2012 #1
She was fantastic and really had the crowd fired up. n/t RebelOne Sep 2012 #2
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