1.   Bob Dole has said he has not read the platform and opposes parts of it.

2.   Bill Clinton may or may not have read the platform that will be formally voted on by the Democratic Convention on Tuesday.

3.   Campaign platforms are best read as declarations of priorities, not blueprints to policy.

4.   Conservatives also lambasted Dole for saying he had not read the platform and did not feel bound by it.

5.   Delegates who were asked to clarify the passage took the cue from no less than Bob Dole himself and professed not to have read the platform.

6.   Mawyer called GOP leaders hypocritical for not reading the platform.

7.   Shortly after the convention, Dole riled party conservatives when he said that he had not read the platform.