Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But if it was Dukakis who controlled the convention's machinery, it was Jackson who held its heart. There was a mood of almost religious rapture in the Omni Tuesday night as the preacher restated the riffs and rhapsodies that had carried him to within sight of the mountaintop. His...
...were crowded, but the speaker did not pound his gavel and yell for the marshals to clear them. The clusters around the states' computer terminals resembled Wall Street trading pits. And the delegates were so thin. "It used to be," says Political Consultant Mandy Grunwald, "that the quintessential Democratic conventioneer weighed about 250 lbs. Now everyone is slimmed down and aerobically fit. Big-spending Democrats are gone, and so are the big- eating ones...
The wrong words bring out the Wright stuff. Scandal-tarred House Speaker Jim Wright desperately wanted to make a speech in prime time. Democratic Party strategists, preferring that the oleaginous convention chairman be an invisible man, reluctantly agreed to relative darkness: ten minutes of non- prime-time oratory.
While you were out . . . The convention bought the cover-up, but in fact it was Dukakis Campaign Manager Susan Estrich, not Dukakis First Friend Paul Brountas, who caused the notorious phone-call-that-missed. When Lloyd Bentsen was picked as the vice-presidential nominee, Brountas gave Estrich Jackson's telephone...
Going to the hoop-la. Football metaphors were in the ascendant during the convention (Dukakis: "Every team has to have a quarterback. That's the nominee"), but rangy basketball players posted up and down the convention floor. Four former professional B-ball players were delegates. Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen (6...