81.   Now, Republicans are hoping that their two-day state convention in October will convince the candidates to spend more time in Florida.

82.   Only Texas Gov. George W. Bush is showing up at the state Republican convention in Orlando.

83.   Parham points out that state conventions like Texas, Virginia, North Carolina and a few others are distancing themselves from the national convention.

84.   Only a few blacks and Hispanics were spotted at the state convention.

85.   Other state conventions continue to boil.

86.   Political parties customarily nominate their lists of electors at their respective state conventions.

87.   Party officials have quipped that, in that era, their state conventions could have been held in a phone booth.

88.   Recently Gov. George Bush was doing the invoking at the state party convention and sounding Reaganesque.

89.   Republicans will choose their delegates in a state convention in May.

90.   Reno, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, goes to California today returning Saturday just long enough to attend a state AFL-CIO convention.