At the other extreme are relationships that are barely blips on the social radar, such as people with adjoining season seats for a game or same-time-next-year conventioneers.
While ecstatic conventioneers feted this "old new," they barely noticed the casket filled with the party's progressive legacy being walking out the side door.
But the out-of-the-way -- and partially upstairs -- location virtually ensured that the museum's only visitors were design freaks and conventioneers who couldn't afford a rental car.
For example, the podiums designed for the 2012 party conventions each emphasized the respective party color, and many conventioneers could be seen wearing clothing that featured their party's color.
