Primarily, he said, state parties with caucus systems that make state conventions a free-for-all for delegates may be overwhelmed and unprepared for a competitive convention.
We have experienced pressures about who should speak at the event and who should be allowed to attend, for example the police asked for the list of all delegates (which we did not supply).
Obviously they are among the biggest state delegations; together they account for about 10percentt of all delegates at the convention.
Perhaps Mr. Gore's biggest advantage is that he appears to have the support of a majority of the so-called super delegates, members of Congress, party officials and others who will automatically be sent to the Democratic convention -- and who account for about 20percentt of all delegates.
There is no queue, just a furious, surging free-for-all, as the delegates mass at the gate, standing on each others' toes and jostling with the camera crews.
Nearly six-in-ten are men, close to two-thirds are white, and their average age (as best we could tell) is around 60. Superdelegates (not an official designation, by the way; their formal name is 'unpledged party leaders and elected officials') will account for just under 15% of all delegate votes at July's Democratic National Convention" [Pew].
In addition, the two states that Newt Gingrich has won -- South Carolina and Georgia -- may become delegate free-for-alls if Gingrich drops out and releases them.
A statement said: "During the 64th Congress Fifa distributed as a gift a Longines watch for all 750 delegates.
Beijing was host of a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet on Saturday night for all the delegates, passing out the traditional moon cakes to celebrate the occasion.
In the meantime, Metternich organised a controversially vast array of entertainments for all the delegates including himself.
