The bitter end

摘要

Fights often break out in ice-hockey arenas. Usually, however, they happen during ice-hockey games, not major political-party conventions. But on the first full day of the Republican National Convention, the party adopted by voice-vote changes to two rules: one strengthening penalties for delegates who vote for a candidate other than the one that state law requires them to support, and the other allowing the Republican National Committee (rnc) to change the party's rules between conventions, rather than putting them to a full vote at the convention itself.