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Along East Broadway, in Boston, the day before the start of the Democratic National Convention, residents and shopkeepers stood on the sidewalk and waved at a passing convoy of buses. For months, police- and fire-department unions had threatened to disrupt the Convention, but now everything seemed amicable--on message. Police motorcycles escorted the buses, which were conveying members and friends of the New York delegation, through a series of red lights to a clambake on the beach in South Boston.
"I feel like a rock star," one of the New Yorkers said.
Political conventions are customarily compared to the Super Bowl, owing to all the sideshows and ...