| In every case, hindsight suggested that the threat of an actual nominating convention had always been more apparent than real. |
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| In the end, caucuses vote, selecting a preferred candidate and a slate of delegates to represent their views at a nominating convention. |
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| Candidates work for months and years, to win delegates pledged to support them at their party's presidential nominating convention. |
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| The presidential primary takes place to elect some of the delegates to the party's nominating convention. |
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| The national committees of both major and minor parties are entitled to public funds to defray expenses incurred with respect to a Presidential nominating convention. |
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| The process of selecting presidential nominees has undergone a fundamental change over the past three decades even though the national nominating convention has remained essentially unchanged. |
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| Goebel secured the Democratic nomination for governor at a contentious nominating convention. |
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| Entering the Democratic nominating convention, Brown seemed to be the favorite for the nomination. |
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| Going into the party's nominating convention, Hardin was the favorite to win the nomination. |
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| Willard was a state Democratic Party stalwart, a former county party chairman who had served as a delegate to the national party's 2000 nominating convention and worked on the state party's 2004 political platform. |
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| Following the conclusion of the nominating convention, the political purposes, activities, and identity of the nominated candidate and their registered district association become entwined. |
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| The nominations came after an often raucous nominating convention. |
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| From the perspective of the registered district association, however, expenditures incurred to hold a nominating convention are governed by the Act. |
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| One consequence of the changes in the presidential nomination process has been the decreasing importance of the party's climactic, televised, national nominating convention. |
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