In an open convention situation, that runner up will now try to claim the mantle.
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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.
About 23, 000 of the downtown area's 28, 000 hotel rooms are open, according to the convention and visitor's bureau.
This is the first-ever open nomination using an internet convention to elect the candidate, and the uniqueness will garnish millions of dollars of earned media attention and potentially attract millions of supporters, but with what belief?
Some of the newer hotels that have raced to open in time for the convention are serving up more variety and a bigger dollop of pizzazz than is typically associated with the famously understated Midwestern market.
The high-tech glass pavilion, built in just over a fortnight on open ground in front of the convention centre where the meeting is to be held, is powered by photovoltaic panels which cover the whole of its sloping south-facing wall.
When Lennon planned to join Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in free open-air concerts outside the 1972 Republican Convention, in Miami, he was promptly subjected to deportation proceedings.
For Obama, I think really has a kind of open field between now and the week before his convention in Denver, although if he wants to go on a vacation with his family and leave his vice president to do the campaigning, maybe he wants a good week with him, whoever it may be, on the trail before he does that.
Lawmakers have been conspicuously absent at convention-related events (at least those open to the press).
As early as 2001, UNESCO and the European Space Agency initiated the Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies to Support the World Heritage Convention and set up a large network of UNESCO space partners.
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