The Democratic National Convention (DNC)

John Podesta, chairman of the Center for American Progress, left to right, Robert Rubin, co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, and Bill Daley, former White House Chief of Staff, listen as Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, speaks during an event inside the Bloomberg Link during day three of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Four years after the nation made history by electing him the first African-American president, Barack Obama asked for a second term with a pledge to keep rebuilding a battered economy in a way that “may be harder but it leads to a better place.” Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images