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The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) regretfully announced today that President Obama and Vice President Biden’s nomination acceptance speeches, originally planned for Bank of America Stadium on Thursday, September 6, will be moved to Time Warner Cable Arena due to severe weather forecasts. More than 65,000 Americans obtained community credentials to attend the event. They […]

CHARLOTTE, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today announced that convention programming, originally planned for Bank of America Stadium on Thursday, September 6, would be moved to Time Warner Cable Arena, the site of the first two days of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, due to severe weather forecasts.  The […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. President Barack Obama will now deliver his acceptance speech Thursday at Time Warner Cable Arena after forecasts about severe weather led officials to move the event out of Bank of America Stadium. The move, which was announced on Wednesday, could create a logistics headache as officials must now announce how they’ll accommodate everyone […]

Due to impending rain, the DNCC announced today that the President’s acceptance speech will be moved inside of Time Warner Cable Arena. The speech was…

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