1.   It was the first opportunity for the second-term congressman and former television producer to address a national political convention.

2.   Left-wing extremists have threatened to disrupt the political convention.

3.   There will also be close, searched boats, blocked streets and all the other inconveniences of a major political convention.

4.   The predictably wearisome grandiloquence of the speeches at a political convention.

5.   He spoke to a packed meeting at the Oxford Union, but the event had all the hallmarks of an American-style political convention.

6.   And a relative handful have ever attended a national political convention.

7.   And delegates to state political conventions have argued vehemently about whether all abortion should be illegal or whether instances of rape and incest should be the exception.

8.   And a large number of them have never been to a political convention.

9.   And because the two major candidates are indistinguishable to many voters, interest in the upcoming political conventions could be significantly higher than in recent elections.

10.   And it has more experience holding political conventions than any other city.