1.   Party insiders had speculated about competition between Symington and Woods to lead the delegation.

2.   Party insiders said the move was to help prepare the ground for him to eventually stand in place of John Hume.

3.   Americans really do not like to be told, by pollsters and pundits and party insiders, that a nomination is inevitable.

4.   At least not according to Kromko, state party Chairman Sam Coppersmith and other party insiders.

5.   But Vallone is also a party insider who failed to get the support he expected from his Democratic peers at the convention.

6.   Down in the polls at the time, insiders dismissed the convention support as just party faithful rallying around a party insider.

7.   Donnelly accepts that his role as a party insider for two decades left him without much statewide visibility.

8.   Electors are typically party insiders, prominent legislators and political activists.

9.   Even though the nominee was not really a party insider, he saw the practical wisdom of relying on those who were.

10.   He was budget and education secretary under Salinas, but party insiders saw him as an untested bureaucrat with few leadership skills.