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• Democrats now have to write a national party platform that will do two thing
  Be hard hitting and precise and be circumspect and general....
• A political party's platform, by the way, is the document that tells where delegates stand, besides in the aisles.
• Jesse Jackson says the main reason for holding the convention is to adopt a platform.
  Then why didn't he leave when that was done?...
• The Democratic platform runs 35,000 words. Divided by the number of people who'll ever read it all, that's about 1,000 words each.
• Republicans approved their most conservative platform since 1964.
  Apparently extremism in the defense of boredom is no vice....
• Talk, unlike the Democratic platform, is cheap," Bob Dole told the convention.
  Obviously he hasn't seen OUR phone bill....
• Easy Street is a blind alley.
• How many Reed students does it take to change a lightbulb?
  One--and she doesn't even need a ladder because she has platform Birkenstocks....
• This is not the president's platform," says his daughter Maureen.
  So, though he may run on it, he'll probably do so wearing track spikes....