Slate's Ballot Box: Obama Drama, Dean's Moment

By Mike Shuster

Published July 28, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Slate political commentator Will Saletan has been "blogging" from the Democratic National Convention in Boston, and talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about his impressions on everything from the party's rising star to the party's most celebrated flame-out.

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Mike Shuster is an award-winning diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent for NPR News. He is based at NPR West, in Culver City, CA. When not traveling outside the U.S., Shuster covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim.

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