71.   Like many a state convention, the California GOP often indulges an appetite for sirloin tartar.

72.   Mauro will get a chance to energize Texas Democrats this weekend when the party holds its state convention in San Antonio.

73.   McCain will appear in Burlingame Saturday as the keynote speaker to the state Republican convention.

74.   Monday night the Southern Baptists of Texas, a conservative group, met to discuss forming a separate state convention.

75.   Moderates pulled out and are forming their own state convention, the Baptist General Convention of Missouri.

76.   Months later, those delegates will select delegates to district and state conventions, who will, in turn, choose delegates to the national convention.

77.   Mostly white GOP true believers stood and roared at the Texas state GOP convention when Gramm ridiculed Democratic gubernatorial candidates for holding back-to-back debates in English and Spanish.

78.   More than anything else, it was a way for the state party to attract national attention and raise money at a state convention that would otherwise go unnoticed.

79.   Much depends on whether pastors can convince their churches to break away from the state convention, he said.

80.   North won nomination at the state GOP convention with substantial help from conservative Christians.