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Shorenstein Center national poll , conducted during the week of the Democratic convention as part of the ongoing Vanishing Voter Project , 63 percent of the respondents agreed that " party conventions are still important because they give Americans an in-depth opportunity to know the candidates better , " as compared with 37 percent who agreed that " party conventions are now unimportant because the presidential nominees have been chosen months in advance through the primary elections . Jill Goodreau , one of the editors of the original manual , for giving us a connection between the old and the new , and the members of the original 2002 editorial team for giving us such great material to work with and build upon . For further details contact : Ella Wilkinson , The Thomas Dammann Trust , Royal Hibernian Academy , 15 Ely Place , Dublin 2 , tel : 6612558 , ext 102 . Matthew Robertson , 19 , and Dylan Raywood , 17 , were killed just before 11 p.m. when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a tree in Eucalyptus Drive , one of Macquarie Fields main residential streets . Mr. Rodriguez 's minivan , traveling east on Penn at an estimated speed of 29 mph , 4 mph over the posted limit , struck a curb and a wooden utility pole , then slammed into Adrienne and another pedestrian , identified in court papers as Sheldon Hawkins , 25 .