41.   Just before Congress recessed this month for the party conventions, Clinton said he would veto the measure if certain amendments remained on the bill.

42.   Last place in the GOP race for the presidential nomination has not dissuaded Alan Keyes from taking his fight all the way to the party convention in Philadelphia.

43.   Moreover, Congress plans a long summer recess during the political party conventions.

44.   Most candidates tend to get short-lived lifts in polls after their party conventions, however.

45.   Most Democratic officials support him, and they alone have a fifth of the vote at the party convention.

46.   National party conventions were ideological battlegrounds instead of sound stages for political advertising.

47.   Party convention spending is strictly limited to the grant of taxpayer funds from the FEC.

48.   Party officials indicated that a national party convention would be held last year to set nominating rules.

49.   Party conventions have had less and less to do in recent years.