| QUADRENNIAL QUEST |
Every four years, in the lead-up to the November Presidential elections, the two major parties hold their conventions. This is hardly news, of course…and this year the selection of candidates was hardly news either. The conventioneers, and the voters in general, knew going in that Kerry and Bush were their respective parties' choices.
Still, the conventions managed to generate their share of excitement, both in the speeches offered by not just the candidates but the other speakers, and in the general hoopla that accompanies these quadrennial affairs.
Security was tight, emotions were high, partisan fever was rampant, and speculation was prevalent: Some wags, looking ahead to future presidential elections, speculated on which of the speakers or other attendees might be each party's candidate in a future presidential contest.
Among the pictures in the pages that follow, can you find the pictures of future Republican and Democratic presidential nominees?
Meanwhile, as the nation divides itself into "red states" and "blue states" (are "red states" the ones on high Homeland Security alert??), it feels like nothing so much as a summer camp divided into teams for color war. Cocktail party chatter and dinner party conversation from now till Election Day will be filled with partisan debates, and many a friendship and even a romance will suffer from friction as a result of political fervor.
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