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Is There a Need for Political Conventions?

ncollins329 Wrote: Sep 03, 2012 11:23 AM

Conventions are a place to physically gather, as you say, but they also give us out here the opportunity to hear speakers we'd never otherwise hear, nor even know of. Personally, I enjoyed the Republican Convention.

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Is There a Need for Political Conventions?

The Republican Convention was last week. The Democrats rev theirs up this week. Television viewership of the Republican Convention was down, and I suspect we will see the same thing this week.

There were a couple of factors affecting the viewership of the Republican convention. First, the major networks didn’t push it. Only an hour each night. They didn’t advertise it and plug it. Second, the Republicans shortened their convention because of the hurricane.

But, does a well established political party even need a convention?

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