Convention TV ratings: In the July 30 Business section, an article about TV ratings for the Democratic National Convention said that in the last 14 presidential elections, the party with the higher convention ratings lost in November.
Although not required for succession to a higher convention level, it is unlikely you will be selected for a higher level without your attendance.
With jockeying among elected officials for a high-profile spot at this unusually high-profile convention, the party was unable to produce a copy of its program until just 45 minutes before the convention was gaveled to order, and the convention was running behind schedule within the hour.
"He was on the wrong side of the rope line," Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, said about Mr. Lieberman's high-visibility convention pitch for Mr. McCain.
It ended up as no more than a high-rise convention centre, armed and isolated in the ruins of a city whose white inhabitants had simply fled to the suburbs.
"We have proven with our experiments that the theory about the missile flying from Snizhne is false," Almaz-Antey's director general Yan Novikov told a news conference at a sprawling high-tech convention center in Moscow.
Traditionally, the best racehorses were either homebreds or sold as yearlings, initially at the glamorous Saratoga summer sales and later at the high-rollers' convention that is the Keeneland sale.
Clinton's high-profile convention role was appropriate, in a sense, because in the best-case scenario an Obama second term would return us to the legislative landscape of the late 1990s — an era of small ball and incrementalism and modest forms of bipartisanship, in which politicians of both parties took credit for positive developments that they didn't actually control.
Hell hath no fury like a room full of disappointed Star Wars acolytes: a Disney boss at a high profile convention in California has been booed after admitting he had nothing new to tell fans about JJ Abrams' forthcoming Episode VII.
But both of those hearings — now set for Jan . 15and Jan . 23— would take place after the high school convention, which means the Texas association cannot wait to see what may happen in Washington before making its decision on the Clemens invitation.
