Convention Ratings to Improve?
... Garthwaite posits the idea that Mitt Romney and Meg Whitman would be perfect to head up an effort to do a major charitable phone bank from the convention.
... Most modern-day conventions have no meaning. There is no "real" news that comes out of them -- just "made-for-TV" news. There is a chance that this convention could actually matter ... that the speeches from McCain and Palin about leadership might actually be tailored to address a specific crisis that is happening right now.