A convention village of GOP fantasies

A convention village of GOP fantasies
By Thomas Oliphant, Boston Globe Columnist  |  August 31, 2004

NEW YORK

...The problem at the outset here is that the Potemkin village clashes with the surprisingly real and engaging one in the streets. Anything that jars political conventions' calculations or clashes with the party line is to be celebrated, but the surprise through the weekend and first day was that "the other convention" overshadowed the real one.

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