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Democratic organizations, all with top-notch communications facilities and dozens of people typing frantically into their computers. Everyone in the pavilion had access to complimentary issues of almost every major newspaper in the country as well as free internet searches, multiple computers and fax machines, and on a more traditional level, wonderful, strong coffee.
I thought the new and old traditions blended well, especially as some of the younger Democrats gave their speeches. Chicago has a new Daley, and Indiana has a new Byah, both as
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