Cynthia Baughman

Cynthia Baughman is a freelance writer who lives on a farm in Douglassville, PA. She wrote about the legal status of pledged delegates for Slate.com in April, and is working a documentary film, Top Secret Rosies: the Female 'Computers' Who Helped Win World War II, about the programmers of ENIAC, the world's first computer.

Diary of an Obama Delegate

August 28, 2008

I came to the DNC as a middle-aged female Obama delegate eager to make peace with Hillary women, and I did not get off to a good start.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Most Read
Most Emailed
Popular Topics

» Gladwell for Dummies
» The Obama Generation, Revisited
» Jon Stewart's Brilliant Beck Parody
» Generation Recession
» Slide Show: The Far-Right Fringe
» Slide Show: The Obama Youth
» What Ails the Senate
» Empire Falls
» Gorbachev on 1989
» Obama, One Year On
» Slide Show: The Palin Saga
» On Israel's 'Domination and Its Intoxications'
» Conscience of a Young Conservative
» Sarah, Smile

» The Beat

House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
144 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
9 Comments

» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
28 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
139 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
16 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman