Grand Old Party time: Delegates descend on Empire State
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Protesters threatening violence, terror fears on every corner and a tense presidential campaign left Gotham City on pins and needles yesterday, braced for President Bush&#39;s make-or-break convention.
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Seldom has a national political party held a nominating convention so deep in enemy territory. From the northern Bronx to Brooklyn's Coney Island boardwalk, from eastern Queens to the liberal fortress of Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City is wall-to-wall Democrats.
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Different parties, different cities. But the Republicans and Democrats have at least one common element at their conventions &#151; a Baldwin brother. In Boston it was Alec, here in New York it is Stephen.
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Wyoming Republicans choose 12 delegates Saturday to the GOP national convention in September, an attempt to have a brief moment in the political spotlight by weighing in early in the selection of a presidential nominee.
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States willing to hold back in the rush to move up presidential nominating contests would be rewarded with extra delegates to the Democratic National Convention under a proposal being presented to party leaders.
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The Republican National Convention, which opens Monday at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, is being bankrolled and feted to an extraordinary degree by the financial services behemoths that are concentrated at the island's southern tip.
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Leading presidential contenders took to the hustings and the airwaves today in the key states of tomorrow's Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, a round of contests that offers the biggest one-day haul of delegates en route to the Republican and Democratic nominations.
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There are four states holding presidential primaries on March 4, with 370 Democratic and 256 Republican delegates up for grabs.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time. When Republicans decided more than 18 months ago to hold their national convention in New York, party leaders were brimming with optimism.
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The lobby of the Palace Hotel was a hub of activity after lunch yesterday. The picture to the right hardly does it justice. A constant stream of friends, a wide variety of ages and backgrounds, flowed through.  It was unlike anything I had seen before, likely because this conference was held in downtown SF, and not San Diego or Phoenix, and a facet of what we'll have when the Newsroom of the Future is up and running. Every city will have one, but San Francisco will probably be first.  Here's a video I took last week at CUNY that gives another perspective. Lots of tables, video screens, a stage, radio and TV equipment. What you can't see is that the room was saturated with wifi, and while it didn't have a huge presence on the Internet, it could have.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton beat back a strong challenge from Barack Obama on Tuesday to win her adopted state, and Sen. John McCain defeated Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to claim all of New York's Republican delegates.
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With 171 pledged delegates at stake on Tuesday, the candidates were making last-minute pitches.
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Modernisers and traditionalists are competing for the soul of the party.
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Republican conventioneers visiting Ellis Island on Sunday could well find their family roots on this spot of land in New York waters once famous for gulls, oysters and a gallows tree used to hang criminals.
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Republicans sang the city's praises to thousands of delegates at Monday's opening of the national convention that will nominate President Bush for another term.
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For generations, visitors to New York City have headed to Times Square, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. But ever since Sept.
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Republicans are gathering in New York for their party&#39;s national convention, as demonstrators prepare to march through the city to protest the war in Iraq.