The Democratic Party seems no closer to solving the problem of how to give Florida and Michigan rank-and-file Democrats some input into the national convention. Even though federal taxpayers subsidize the two major party national conventions (over $16,000,000 apiece), and even though state taxpayers pay for major party primaries in all states, the Democratic Party so far hasn’t come up with a solution for itself.
One then compares the Democratic Party to the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties. Those latter three parties pay for their own national convention, and yet they have never failed to include delegates from every state (if there were people in each state who wanted to participate!). Those three parties have had contentious national conventions, but each one of those conventions was always capable, in the end, of resolving whom to seat, and whom to nominate for president and vice-president. Self-sufficiency does have its rewards.
Exactly, I think we need a separation of party and government.
I am curious of the constitutional grounds of government preference to the duopoly over other political parties.
On other note I can’t find the source, but it was something to the effect if a re vote happens it will be easier for Nader to challenge the debates. Why and how is this so
The Democrats will figure out some way to have Michigan and Florida represented at their convention.
In 1964, there were competing delegations from Mississippi to the Democratic National Convention. President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t want a big fight to be shown on natonal TV, so he engineered a compromise solution.
LBJ’s point man for the compromise was Walter Mondale, then attorney general of Minnesota.