[Magdalen] pondering politics

[Lynn Ronkainen]

well, conventions are another thing... conventions looked a lot different 
when I was kid : )   LOL

The party had huge influence in choosing the VP, an announcement usually 
made from the convention floor. I do think that this year's conventions may 
resemble the 'old days' more then the recent decades.

Lynn

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 2:03 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] pondering politics

> The real crux of the matter is that each convention, a week before, freely 
> writes the rules for said convention, from scratch (in principle, that 
> is), with little or no concern about what had gone before, except insofar 
> as re-writing as necessary to avoid a previous foul-up.
>
> Primaries are, as ME says, advisory, at best, and to date, I'm okay with 
> that.  But what I'm not okay with is those bloody, pointless caucuses, 
> which generally get ignored when it comes for the state conventions to 
> assign delegates any way they choose.  I'm with Bernie:  no more caucuses.