21. A state that accounts for one in every eight delegates to national political conventions will at last have a say in whom those conventions nominate. 22. A vote in May, backers say, would allow the issue to be decided before the arguments become bogged down in the national political conventions. 23. A second was his signing in August, just before the political conventions, of a Republican-style welfare reform bill. 24. Against the backdrop of the omnipresent three-ring circus of this political convention, reality comes in brief flashes and snippets of conversations. 25. But all that is too complicated for a sound bite at a political convention. 26. But no one is clamoring for another political convention. 27. But it also resembles a political convention, a chance to put Clinton and Gore in the best possible light as they take on a knotty political problem. 28. But it is still too early to abandon the rich tradition represented by the American political convention. 29. But remember, everybody at a political convention is for the same party. 30. But such superficiality should be left to political conventions. |
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