Accepting the Nomination

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 24 May 2004 at 18:53, Dan Billings wrote:

> The history is irrelevant to the story.  The story is about campaign
> finance and trying to game the system for political advantage.  There was
> no public funding of Presidential campaigns back in the times that you are
> talking about.  Including such info in stories would simply muddy the
> story and distract from the central issue.  Parties used to actually pick
> their nominees at conventions and that is also no longer the case.  That
> history also has little to do with the current news.
 
Both parties game the system in whatever way they can.  The Republicans gamed the 
system by choosing a date in late August, so that Bush would have more time to spend 
unrestricted funds.  The Democrats, expecting the nomination fight to last longer, gamed the 
system by choosing an earlier convention to give the nominee more time to unify the party, 
which is no longer necessary.

Absolutely no news happens at either political convention.  Both conventions are nothing 
more than political rallies.  The magic words "I accept your nomination" don't make it any 
different.

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