The Republican Party on Tuesday sought to give impetus to the Convention to nominate John McCain as a candidate for U.S. president, after the first day would be overshadowed by Hurricane Gustav and revelations about the candidate for vice president that threaten to impact the event and the campaign.
Republicans decided to resume full agenda of its Convention in St. favour. Paul, Minnesota (north), which President George W. Bush will speak via satellite at night, party sources indicated.
Supporters of McCain breathe more relaxed after the passage of Gustav prove less devastating than expected, despite the deaths of seven people according to local media.
But now threaten others with winds hit heavily at the meeting of the party to announce that McCain and the governor of Alaska (north), Sarah Palin, as candidates for President and Vice-Chairman respectively.
On Monday, Palin, 44, confirmed that his daughter Bristol, unmarried 17-year-old, is pregnant and said to be the baby and will marry the father of the baby.
Ultraconservative, near the Christian fundamentalists, Palin, mother of five children and clearly hostile to abortion, was presented with drums and cymbals last week, to attract the most conservative of the Republican Party, to which McCain is not always sympathetic .
It remains to be seen how the news impacts in this sector of the Republican Party, although the first question that arose after the fact is disclosed how well known the senator for Arizona (south) to his partner formula.
The spokesman Hispanic McCain, Hessy Fernandez, said to AFP on Tuesday that the applicant was aware of the pregnancy of Palin's daughter before announcing the decision to choose as a companion formula.
Fernandez also noted that "a team of communicators" special envoy left for Alaska to assist in disseminating information about the case, thus rejecting press releases indicated that many leading Republicans, including some lawyers, traveled on Monday to investigate the gone from Palin.
With their candidate is behind in the polls, Republicans need to give impetus to its Convention in St. Paul, deslucida by the passage of Gustav that led them to minimize the meeting agenda, which on Monday met for just two hours.
Two new polls released in the last few hours suggest that the Democrat Barack Obama received a considerable boost since it became the first black candidate to be appointed to the presidency of the United States by one of the two historical parties last week in Denver, Colorado (west).
A survey of the newspaper USA Today and Gallup signing gives advantage to Obama on McCain by 50% to 43% of voting intentions, and a survey of CBS and The New York Times put the Democrat candidate on 48-40 his rival for the Republican presidential November 4.
McCain, 72 years, should speak on Thursday in front of some 2,400 delegates of his party who will give their support as a candidate at an event for which some 20,000 people are expected at the Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota, a hockey stadium ice reformed for the occasion.
In addition to the speech via satellite Bush, also will speak independent Senator Joseph Liebermann, a former Democrat who was co-formula of former Vice President Al Gore in 2000 and is now close to the Republicans.
