Jeff Hauser is right that the dates of this year's
Republican national convention are anomalous.  Until
this year, the latest national convention (in all U.S.
history) to choose a major party presidential
candidate had been the Democratic convention of 1968. 
Hubert Humphrey and Ed Muskie weren't nominated until
August 29.

The Democrats chose that late date because they were
afraid that supporters of Senator Eugene McCarthy
would try to run McCarthy independently if Humphrey
were nominated (or, if Johnson were drafted for
another term).  So by picking August 29, the McCarthy
supporters who wanted an alternate ticket had almost
no time to get that going.

--- Jeffrey MA Hauser <jmh248@nyu.edu> wrote:
The Kerry campaign's currently clunky communications
team has failed completely to get out the message that
the Bush team has chosen a convention date that is
historically... anomalous.  



	
		
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