As he spoke, candidates were preparing for the final stretch.
It was a race in which a Chinese-speaking candidate, Jon Huntsman, was thought to have done more harm than good to himself by peppering his comments with bits of Mandarin.
It also wanted to maintain the current mix of District 47, a heavily Russian area in Brooklyn where Domenic M. Recchia, another Democrat, in 2001 narrowly defeated Oleg Gutnik, a Russian-speaking candidate who campaigned with Mr. Bloomberg.
He would be in the Fleet Center on the next night, when Kerry spoke; the candidate had invited Shrum and his wife to sit in the Kerry box.
I've translated a few key quotes below for those of you who don't speak fluent Candidate.
There may be more closet Obama supporters out there who'll speak one candidate and vote for the other.
Over 500 French-speaking candidates applied; it took 1 year to pass the series of examinations, and in the end just two people were recruited!
This interaction term seemed to be the consequence of a small number of white non-native English speaking candidates, relatively few of whom obtained unconditional offers.
Adrian Bevington, Club England managing director, said on Tuesday that the FA had not spoken to any candidate.
About 3 in 10 Latino churchgoers said clergy had spoken directly about candidate and elections.
Brown was the clear favourite to succeed Blair; he was the only candidate spoken of seriously in Westminster.
