Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., addresses the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 28, 2004.
Cate Edwards, daughter of Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.., right, introduces her mother, Elizabeth Edwards, on stage during the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 28, 2004.
Rev. Al Sharpton speaks to delegates during the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston July 28, 2004.
John Mellencamp performs "Small Town" before the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 28, 2004.
Actor Michael Murphy, left, and Cynthia Nixon walk on the floor during the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 28, 2004.
Former California Gov. Gray Davis, right, and his wife Sharon, sit on the floor during the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 28, 2004.
Delegates wave flags as singer John Mellencamp performs during the Democratic National Convention July 28, 2004 at the FleetCenter in Boston.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm addresses the delegates during the Democratic National Convention July 28, 2004.
Delegate Jarrett Barios of Cambridge, Mass., carries his son Nathaniel, 8, on his shoulders during the Democratic National Convention July 28, 2004.
Annie Bartkus, 9, of the Middlesex County, Mass., 4-H Fife & Drum Corps, performs for the delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 28, 2004.
Former Ohio senator John Glenn waves to the crowd after speaking to delegates during the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 28, 2004.
Minnesota delegates Bill and Laurie Hilty, left, register their votes, as delegate Don Bye looks on during the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 28, 2004. The Hiltys support former candidate Dennis Kucinich, who released the delegates he won in the primaries and urged them to vote for John Kerry in the nominating roll call.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, addresses the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 28, 2004.
Leslie Harlow of Sullivan, Maine, photographs Hennepin County, Minn., prosecutor Amy Klobachar as she speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 28, 2004.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., hugs his Vietnam swiftboat crewmate, Rev. David Alston, at Logan International Airport in Boston, July 28, 2004. Alston and some of Kerry's other Vietnam War crewmates, also pictured, greeted the candidate upon his arrival in Boston to accept his party's nomination.
Republican National Committee members Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Chairman Ed Gillespie, former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and Charlotte (N.C.) Mayor Pat McCrory, left to right, look at a video of Sen. John Kerry in the war room of the RNC headquarters near the FleetCenter in Boston, July 28, 2004. The RNC planned to unveil an 11-minute video tracing how Kerry struggled with the issue of Iraq during his campaign.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. leans over to kiss his son, Yusef, at the podium of the FleetCenter in Boston, July 28, 2004. Jackson Sr. was scheduled to address the convention later in the day.
Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., checks out the podium at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 28, 2004. He was scheduled to address the delegates at the Democratic National Convention later in the day.
Rev. Al Sharpton, a 2004 presidential hopeful, walks to the podium after arriving at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 28, 2004.
Vice presidential candidate John Edwards is joined at the podium by his wife Elizabeth at the FleetCenter in Boston, in the early hours of July 28, 2004. The couple arrived on the convention floor to rehearse their speeches for the next night after the second day of convention activities had ended.