Clinton is the only major speaker yet to submit his address to the typically painstaking vetting and rewriting that typically accompanies major convention addresses, provoking a mild and growing dose of nerves among senior Democrats, a Democratic official told BuzzFeed Monday.
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Clinton’s speech will be key because Republicans have sought to peel Clinton Democrats — working class white voters he so successfully courted in the 1990s — back to the Republican coalition. Aides to Mitt Romney have even accused Obama of breaking with Clinton’s legacy, an unthinkable accusation for the anti-Clinton Republican Party of the 1990s.
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