What is the purpose a national political conventions are held?
in today’s world the conventions are just like football pep rallies because the winner is chosen some times weeks before the convention . but i remember in the 50s when they would decide the party candidate at the convention there were conferences and midnight phone calls to states asking for their support. I remember good ole walter cronkite pointing to a board with people changing numbers like they do on the stock boards today. good ole walter would always say something like well eisenhower just picked up 5 more delegates and now he only needs to find 12more to be the republican candidate, and then switch to a smokefilled room where volunteers would be talking on the phone with cigars and cigarettes hang out of their mouths, I don’t know maybe i’m getting old and wish things were the way they were.
