The mourners step back to allow a party of primary-school children to form a quiet half circle around the shrine, and their teacher tries to explain what is happening here.
"We are a party of primaries, and tough ones, but healthy competition makes for a better Democratic candidate," Mr. Cuomo said.
So the House member not only has to constantly appeal to the base of the party for primary elections, but also for turn out in these non-presidential years, when only the most active voters show up.
By refusing to co-operate on any issues that do not support their own self interests, the vocal tea party has drummed moderate Republicans out of the party through primary challenges.
Be the life of the party with primary colors.
The unusual ballot mix is thanks to a measure passed by California voters in 2010 that pits all candidates against each other regardless of party in the primary.
It's primary voters in key swing states who would seriously consider a third party candidate, including 29percentt of primary voting Republicans in Florida, 39percentt in North Carolina and 45percentt in Ohio.
Mr. Duhalde said he would forcefully compete with Mr. Menem for leadership of the party in a primary election scheduled for next year.
Mr. Ben-Eliezer is in a tough three-way race to hold on to his leadership of the party, in a primary set for Nov. 19.
These perceptions are sharpened by the beginning of the opposition party's primary campaign, which, of course, accentuates the negatives.
As leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (since 1993 the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz [PML-N]), the primary party of the Islamic Democratic Alliance coalition, he was first elected Pakistan's prime minister in October 1990.
