... regardless of the answer to that question, it would apply to Bush as well. Although unopposed, he is not the official candidate either. The conventions do have some significance in the financing of campaigns but I'm not sure the nitty gritty details. I do know that Kerry using campaign funds to pay himself back for that 6 million loan does have a deadline of convention time.
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In that the Democratic Party will not, in fact, have a Candidate until their convention, do election laws allow the DNC to financially/directly support Kerry as the candidate until then ?

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