11.   Fewer than a dozen states still use caucuses as a method of choosing party nominees.

12.   Gorton has pushed his Republican colleagues in the Senate to change this by using their majority to force Clinton to give them a larger role in choosing nominees.

13.   Henceforth, a simple majority of delegate votes was enough to choose the nominees in both parties.

14.   If I withdrew from the election, a very small group of people would choose the nominee.

15.   Major-party nominees were chosen by powerful insiders behind closed doors or, on occasion, on the convention floor by delegates.

16.   McCurry said Clinton had not decided if he would continue to push for Jones or choose another nominee.

17.   National conventions used to be about choosing presidential nominees.

18.   On Tuesday, they are choosing nominees for the seat now held by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, another five-term Republican, who is retiring.

19.   Party conventions, once the vital, throbbing mechanisms by which presidential nominees were actually chosen, serve today only as ceremonial window displays for pre-selected goods.