Word: conventioners
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TIME'S coverage of the Democratic Convention was terrific [NATION, July 30]. The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and the people in the party had a wonderful convention in San Francisco.
Three factors have come out of the San Francisco convention that make a Democratic victory in November much less a long shot than it was before the primary campaigns: the nomination of Geraldine Ferraro, the expectation of increased minority-voter turnout, and the improvement in Walter Mondale's newly...
The current, high-pitched debate began last month, with Mondale's convention speech. Taxes must be raised, said the Democratic nominee, but only he, not Reagan, would admit that up front. Recalls a White House aide, "Everyone here was saying, 'This is just wonderful. Nobody wins an election...
When the Republicans gather in Dallas next week for their national convention, they will have a gleaming set, a boffo headliner and a friendly audience in the hall. But then the plot thins. For the first time since 1972, neither spot on the ticket needs to be filled. There are...
So what is there to offer the party faithful at the Dallas Convention Center and millions of television viewers? Desperate to add spice to their celebration of the Administration's first term, G.O.P. strategists briefly considered pumping up their mild ideological divisions into full-fledged floor battles. But the...