91.   Romney would need to formally launch a campaign quickly after he arrives, his advisers say, since the Republican state convention is just three weeks away.

92.   Religious conservatives at the state Republican Party convention in June adopted a platform plank that called for the defeat of judges who approve judicial bypasses.

93.   Seaborn noted that in Virginia conservatives split away from their main state convention because moderates were in full control.

94.   Russell Dilday, a moderate, was elected president of the state convention.

95.   Seven of the Republican presidential candidates showed up for the state convention, and that was regarded as the first sign of the glories to come.

96.   Several conservative churches refuse to contribute to the state convention to protest the moderate control.

97.   She has asked to address the state convention because the senator will be giving a com mencement speech out of state, according to state party officials.

98.   Sen. John F. Kerry will leave the Democratic state convention in Worcester, Mass. Saturday with the nomination of his party, but he is hoping for considerably more.

99.   Since being nominated at the Republican state convention in May, Pataki has spent much of his time raising money.

100.   Some are chosen in statewide elections, others at state party conventions, and others in caucuses.