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Convention Diary

St. Paul, Minn.-Once John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate the Friday before the Republican National Convention opened, there really was no suspense left to the quadrennial party conclave. In what has become a pattern in recent decades, there was no contest at all for the nomination. As speakers such as former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and Connecticut Independent Democratic Sen. Joe lieberman focused on McCain's life in their addresses, and Orson Swindle, McCain's onetime cellmate at the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," introduced other former prisoners-of-war on Tuesday night, the convention seemed Io be a "This Js Your Life. John ...

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