31.   After the Democratic convention, he led Citizens for Kennedy, which sought Republican and independent voters for the campaign.

32.   Al Gore captured the lead after The Kiss at the Democratic convention.

33.   Al Gore said that his surge in polls following the Democratic convention is evidence that voters want a campaign based on issues rather than images.

34.   All the early indications are that the Democratic convention will be painfully dull.

35.   Breaking with recent precedent, Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles agreed to deliver the invocation at the opening of the Democratic convention.

36.   Boston is among five cities bidding for the Democratic convention.

37.   Buckley managed to prefigure the excesses of tabloid television when he and the novelist Gore Vidal squared off as analysts on ABC during the Democratic convention in Chicago.

38.   But at the Democratic convention, the fashion crisis was averted.

39.   But at the national level, as Fukuyama points out and the Democratic convention next week will surely demonstrate, the left is largely absent.

40.   But Gore did tell the Democratic convention that he was not concerned about being lovable.