To overcome the delegate leads of Trump and Clinton, their rivals need landslides, and lots of them.
Those defeats wiped out the combined delegate leads he took out of every state he won across the country to date.
Prodded by Benjamin Franklin, the éminence grise of the Convention, Connecticut's delegates, led by Roger Sherman, came up with the compromise that saved the young Republic.
Connecticut's delegates, led by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, are heavily suburban, with only one representative from any of the state's five biggest cities, Jo McKenzie of Hartford.
In 1972, Mr. Bilandic stood in for Mayor Daley at the Democratic National Convention in denouncing the seating of anti-Daley delegates led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The original complaint about the AGM was made by 17 delegates led by Paul Stuart, also a vice-chairman of the suspended party.
"We — LCWR officials and the bishop delegates led by [Seattle] Archbishop [J.
Adoption of the platform caused some western delegates, led by Colorado Senator Henry M. Teller, to walk out of the convention.
Mr. Romney's delegates lead the race in each one of these districts, which would account for 28 delegates total.
He has a pledged delegate lead virtually locked up.
"We will continue to build our delegate lead," Mr. Obama said.
