91.   He was undeterred by an unsuccessful run for secretary of state, when he tried to change the rules for nominating candidates at the Democratic convention.

92.   He will need it in the downtime between the primaries and the Democratic convention, should he get that far.

93.   Hence, with less than six weeks before the Democratic convention, new names, maybe preposterous names, are slipping into the void.

94.   How many people will actually watch the Democratic convention on television?

95.   However, its ratings did recover for the Democratic convention.

96.   I mean, it would be great to have the Republican and the Democratic national conventions come to Seattle.

97.   If the Republican convention was an infomercial, the Democratic convention is a minefield.

98.   If nothing else demonstrates the evil of open-checkbook democracy, it is the cost of the GOP and Democratic conventions, defrayed by their rich sponsors.

99.   In a city where image is everything, this is hardly the image Los Angeles had in mind when it bid to bring the Democratic convention here.

100.   In fact, the Democratic convention was permeated with gospel music and preaching.