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1) contested convention after the incumbent steps down 2) republican candidate considered a crook 3) it's in Chicago Whatever they do, don't do what the DNC
by mattnewton 2y ago
1) contested convention after the incumbent steps down
2) republican candidate considered a crook
3) it's in Chicago
Whatever they do, don't do what the DNC did in 1968 again, lets try to at least make new mistakes this time I guess?
- PopAlongKid 2y agoWhat mistakes did the DNC make in 1968? Chicago Mayor Daley and his police force made the mistakes with the protestors, much of the media coverage of the police riots falsely made it look like it was happening right outside the convention site.
- mattnewton 2y agoWell, anointing the VP Humphrey as the new candidate, in a process that alienated a lot of the dem's base was a big mistake in retrospect. I won't pretend to know the history well enough to know if there was any workable approach then, but the convention process in 1968 definitely didn't work to produce a candidate Dems were excited about at the end of it, the turnout was low and Humphrey lost in a landslide. Also, I think some of it was happening right outside the convention site - Dan Rather was famously manhandled on national television by security guards while trying to interview someone leaving the convention.
- dylan604 2y agoI keep imaging being in a Sorkin-esque West Wing timeline