trib.com
August 28, 2008, Jared Miller

Western issues such as domestic energy development, gun rights and wildlife habitat conservation are taking a higher profile this year at the Democratic National Convention. The new emphasis signals the party's continuing commitment to the West, which is increasingly becoming a national political battleground, several western convention delegates said....

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