Whats the biggest difference between the Democratic and Republican national conventions?
Tom Brokaw: The Republicans are almost always better behaved than the Democrats. They have more money, and they impose a greater discipline on the delegates. Now, that did not happen a few years ago, when the Republicans had George Bush running for re-election, and the more conservative wing of the party took hold of the convention, and said some things from the podium that did not help President Bush when he was running for re-election. But the Democrats are more likely to have squabbles within the convention than the Republicans are. And at the Republican Convention there’s less diversity. It’s generally a larger white audience than it is at a Democratic convention because the Democrats attract people of color and different ethnic backgrounds, to a greater degree, than the Republicans do. What can we learn from the acceptance speech given by the party’s nominee? Tom Brokaw: You seldom learn anything new. What you may get from those kinds of presentations is a sense of how that candid
