It was also Payne who assured the I.O.C. delegates that the average temperature here was in the high 70's, when the truth resides about 10 degrees higher.
The service is also offering "delegate diaries," daily reports from delegates that will describe what the convention is like for the average delegate and put the procedures of the conventions into easily understood terms.
Wyman's own pants suit that day was a cheerful robin's-egg blue, and she appeared more carefully coiffed and less weary than the average delegate.
It's all very well watching Ann Romney explain what a lovable fellow her husband his, and applauding Condi Rice for being a member of the G.O.P., but what the average delegate really wanted to do was boo and hiss at Obama, and see somebody put him down.
At last year's Tory conference, there were noticeable empty seats, even for David Cameron's speech, and small wonder: a survey by the activist website ConservativeHome found that since the party now favours big cities rather than seaside resorts, the cost of attendance to the average delegate comes in at a headache-inducing £722.
If the remaining states play out according to their demographics, as prior ones have, Mr. Romney should continue to win slightly more than half of the delegates on average.
The average age of the delegates was 52.92 years – Dinh Huy (30 years of age) was the youngest delegate, and Do Quang Hung (77 years of age) was the oldest delegate.
While the average population per delegate in Fairfax County is 95,064, Wythe County, with only 21,975 persons, and Shenandoah County, with a population of only 21,825, are each given one seat in the Virginia House.
The average age of the delegates assembled in Seattle must be closer to 65 than 30.
Benjamin Franklin, at 81, lifted the average age of the delegates a bit, but even then it never went over 43, the age of our youngest elected President, John F. Kennedy.
