W&L students pick Kerry in landslide at mock convention

W&L's convention has predicted the presidential nominee 17 out of 22 times since 1908.

LEXINGTON - At Washington and Lee University's Democratic Mock Convention on Saturday, where Massachusetts' Sen. John Kerry won by a landslide, the day unfolded like this:

As the keynote speaker, political strategist James Carville acknowledged that as a college student he had a 4.0 average on graduation day. "That was my blood alcohol," Carville said.

Third-year law student Evan Sauda, playing a delegate from North Carolina, asked if the Massachusetts delegates would withdraw their support from Kerry, their state's senator, "if the Panthers beat the Patriots" in Sunday's Super Bowl.

A delegate from New York gave an impassioned speech supporting the candidacy of the Rev. Al Sharpton, all the while wearing a Kerry campaign sticker on her lapel.

http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story161995.html


The most recent Virginia polls available show Kerry in the lead in that state as well:

Survey USA

1/27-29 MoE3.3%

Kerry 32%
Clark 17%
Edwards 17%
Dean 14%
Sharpton 9%
other 6%
undecided 5%

http://surveyusa.com/2004_Elections/VA040130demprimary.pdf

Or so I was told.

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Well, let's just go on with the coronation then.