Her friend, Bill Maher, has taken a somewhat darker view of these unlikely political conversions.

"I didn't go through a political conversion in recent years."

This verbal conversion is being driven by a political conversion.

Mr. Nofemela, a former policeman, claims to have undergone a dramatic political conversion.

She proclaimed it unlikely that any of them would make a political conversion just because a Democratic presidential candidate was sponsoring a racecar.

The political conversion was reported in newspapers nationwide the next day.

It was clearly the subsequent political conversion that persuaded the Administration to invite the Malian leader to make a state visit.

He pointed to reading back issues of The Freeman, a libertarian magazine, through the mid-1990s, to explain his political conversion.

His political conversion began out of pure self-interest.

Both are experienced and agile politicians, and if their recent political conversions prove real, they could get a turn at the top later on.