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...well oiled and humming. When the delegates arrived in New York City, the primaries had already made Bill Clinton the party's nominee and Clinton had already made Al Gore his running mate. Jubilant at the thought that this, at last, might be a winning team, the Democrats in Madison Square Garden cheered like paid extras...
Bill Clinton came into Madison Square Garden with a second chance to explain who he is and what he cares about. He did it by grabbing control of the convention in a way only Republicans have known how to do until now: with an unapologetic appeal to sentiment and a relentless approach to organizing. For the first time, party chairman Ron Brown and the candidate were in total synch. Together they took charge of who would be on the podium and for how long; what would be said to the press (blue cue cards were given to delegates for that...
...last week, the Democratic Party tried to present itself as a party of women and for women. Hillary R. Clinton's chocolate-chip and oatmeal cookies, distributed to delegates and journalists in Madison Square Garden, were only part of that effort. More important was the pro-choice, pro-woman rhetoric that inundated the convention. More important was the parade of women Senatorial and Congressional candidates that went before the assembled delegates and journalists...
Alas for both Democrats and couch potatoes, love feasts make boring television. This one, in fact, will make next to no network television; ABC, CBS and NBC plan a mere one to two hours of live coverage a night. The best theater may be on the streets outside Madison Square Garden. Besides the inevitable demonstrations, casts of all the current Broadway musicals will put on a free, open-air show for conventioneers in Times Square. To protect the 5,000 delegates, 15,000 journalists and innumerable hangers-on expected, the city will flood the streets with police. And to drum...
Many of the souvenir and refreshment stands in Madison Square Garden were converted to press information centers or security stations for the convention. The dearth of food stands, combined with the 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. convention sessions, resulted in scenes that resembled a Russian supermarket...