She will represent the Muslim community at the first-ever interfaith prayer service at a Democratic nominating convention.
But he is running far behind McCain in delegates to the party's nominating convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, late this summer.
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That could keep him going longer than most of his rivals, and perhaps give him enough delegates to shape August's nominating convention in Tampa.
He did the next best thing, engineering an open nominating convention in which more than 12, 000 delegates were free to vote for any candidate.
The debate, the 13th of the Republican campaign, was the final televised showdown before GOP voters begin choosing nominating convention delegates, starting Jan. 3 with Iowa's caucuses.
It is at these later meetings that the delegates will usually be chosen for the party's national nominating convention at which the presidential candidate will be declared.
While the Romney-Ryan ticket is a done deal, the path of what is now Tropical Storm Isaac and its impact on the nominating convention is still a big question.
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The battle in the Democratic Party has a long way to go, partly because its system awards each candidates a share of the delegates to the nominating convention according to their share of the vote in each primary.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said phone banks encouraging Bush supporters to attend a Nader nominating convention last Saturday amounted to an illegal in-kind contribution to the Nader campaign by the Oregon Family Council and Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy.
But really the issue here now for this campaign is just about accumulating some delegates, not finishing first, maybe not finishing second, just getting a few delegates maybe in South Carolina, enough to have some kind of input on the nominating process of the Democratic convention.
Among the Bull Moosers in the crowd were former Democrats and Republicans, including future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, columnist Walter Lippman, "wise-use conservationist" Gifford Pinchot, Judge Learned Hand and settlement house pioneer Jane Addams, who became the first woman to give a nominating speech at an American political convention.
There are 102 nominating delegates at stake in the New York Republican primary, the third-largest prize for the Republican convention.
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