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Each session of the four-day meeting is lay opened with a religious invocation, its words schedules are punctuated with a heady mix of history of christ Christian and country music and they are finised with a prayer.

There has calm been a row over whether the party deliberately chose a podium marked with a subliminal cros made from lighter-coloured timber for its Madison Square Garden venue Officials have denied the claim.

if it were not that the religious stalwarts mobilised to appeal to the party's core at previous party conventions, similar as television preachers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, are notably absent from the speakers' podium.

They have been replaced through a string of socially moderate politicians like movie star-turned-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,