11.   Exactly four years ago, someone took a poll of Republican delegates in Houston at the end of that miserable, meanspirited convention.

12.   Furthermore, Republican delegates once again endorsed a party platform that does not endorse legal protections for gays.

13.   He heard their voices all the way to Salt Lake City, he told the Republican delegates.

14.   How they compare with Republican delegates, who were polled before the Republican National Convention.

15.   In fact, on issue after issue, the delegates here present a reverse image of the generally conservative Republican delegates who convened in San Diego two weeks ago.

16.   It included Republican delegates, overwhelmingly white, on their feet and clapping to the raucous, up-tempo beat of a black church choir.

17.   Like the Republican delegates, most of the Democrats are middle-aged.

18.   On cultural issues, Powell sounded more like a moderate Democrat than like the conservative Republican delegates in San Diego who have adopted a mean-spirited party platform.

19.   Regardless, Republican delegates and lawmakers who arrived in town, many with long faces, were smiling as they headed home.