Monday, July 26, 2004
Democratic Convention Thoughts (Day 1)
A small item of mine was picked up by National Review Online today.
A review of today's convention schedule shows the red meat being is served up for Democratic delegates far from the cameras of CBS or CNN. (Thank heaven for C-SPAN.) Tonight is likely to have more emphasis on the more mainstream undecided vote. We can draw two lessons from this scheduling.
First, for all the talk that John Kerry has sewn up the Democratic "base," the need to tend to the red meat-seeking ideologues suggests that the base is still in play. Yes, they hate President Bush. But they do not yet love Kerry.
Second, the Kerry people are concerned that their unvarnished ideology will not meet with favor among the undecided. So they must run two campaigns and hope no one notices.
I'll be commenting from time to time on the Democratic Convention. And plan to do the same kind of analysis of the GOP's production next month. If you want to have your say, write me here.
By the way, this marks my 500th post on this blog. Thank you for reading it.
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