And while there's a better chance of a contested convention, it's still highly unlikely.

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The volatile Republican presidential contest has provoked feverish talk in the media and the blogosphere about a brokered or contested convention in late August, when 2, 286 Republican delegates gather in Tampa, Fla.

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Similarly in 2012, Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis will likely have smaller displacement effects than Super Bowls contested in warmer climates that annually attract general tourist or convention-specific business.

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Foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations have made no secret of their desire to use the Convention on Small Arms as a means of overriding Americans' deeply cherished, if hotly contested, right to own and bear arms.

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But Clinton has pledged to fight to have the state's delegates seated at the August convention in Denver, and has increasingly stressed the state's importance since losing Saturday's hotly contested primary in South Carolina to Obama.

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