Union workers. Teachers. Veterans. Arab-Americans. Sluts. All of these groups have joined forced to make sure that President Obama is elected to a second term. Wait, sluts?

After the Democratic National Convention was moved inside for its final night, more than 55,000 people who thought they were attending President Obama’s acceptance speech were shut out, including many who had plans to travel from the D.C. area.

During yesterday’s roll call of the state delegations to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Mayor Vince Gray pledged the city’s 45 delegates to Presidents Obama while making a plea for D.C. voting rights and statehood.

Bill Butcher, the owner of Port City Brewing Company, is in Charlotte, N.C. today, where he will address the Democratic National Convention this evening about the Obama administration’s relationship with the small business community.

The president and Sasha and Malia Obama watched the speech from the Treaty Room of the White House.

Thanks to a molasses-like security perimeter outside a special area designated for protests outside the Democratic National Convention, D.C. Mayor Vince Gray was unable to address a Charlotte crowd on the push for D.C. statehood.

As Washington’s political and media types converge on Charlotte, N.C. for the Democratic National Convention, a few have spotted a familiar sight in the blocks surrounding the Time Warner Cable Arena: officers from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Members of D.C.’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte will continue fighting for voting rights and statehood this week.

Mayor Vince Gray is traveling to Charlotte next week for the Democratic National Convention, but he’s paying his own way and using vacation days for the trip.

D.C. Shadow Senator Michael Brown has created and is paying for two billboards promoting D.C. statehood to go up in Charlotte in time for the Democratic National Convention next week.