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COMERS.(The Talk of the Town)

The New Yorker

| August 09, 2004 | McGrath, Ben | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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